Chris Turney
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Chris Turney is an Australian and British geologist living in Sydney. He led the radiocarbon dating on the "Hobbit" fossil of Flores, Indonesia that hit the headlines worldwide in 2004, and has published numerous scientific articles. In 2011, he was awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council toon meer Laureate Fellowship. Turney has been described by The Saturday Times as "the new David Livingstone." toon minder
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Shackled : how a scientific expedition to Antarctica became a fight for survival (2017) 11 exemplaren
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The science teams Russian ship became stuck in ice and the easterly winds prevented the ice from moving elsewhere (it was pushed up hard against the coast) so after several days, the decision had to be made to issue a distress call.
2 other ships had come to rescue this team. One was chinese and the other was an australian ice breaker. The chinese ship also became stuck in the same ice, thanks to the same prevailing easterly winds. The Australian ice breaker tried, but the pack ice and those winds meant that it could not venture any closer or it too would get stuck.
The chinese ship had a helicopter. The plan was made for the helicopter to rescue the passengers from the russian ship and ferry them to the Australian ice breaker. In the spirit of coordination. This was successfully completed with 4 trips being made on 2nd January 2014. The crew of both the russian and chinese ships stayed on board their respective ships.
The Australian icebreaker then sailed back to Tasmania in Australia.
5 days after the rescue, the winds finally changed and both the russian and chinese ships were finally able to break through the ice and get to open water.
There were concerns that the science team had been careless in even going down to the Antarctica, but the team leader said that nature is not under human control. And the Antarctica weather is unpredictable. There was no way to see or know what would happen. And it could have happened to anyone.
This was an enjoyable book to read, BUT there was also a LOT of comparison between the 2013 science team and Ernest Shackletons trip to the Antarctica 100 years earlier. He had planned to trek to the south pole, but the changing weather ruined that idea. He was lucky that everyone in his team survived, especially after they had to be split up.
I found the parts about the 2013 team interesting, but the parts about Shackleton may be a little boring. I would give this 4 stars.
You only need to read the entire book if you really admire Ernest Shackleton or you can skip the Shackleton parts altogether.… (meer)