okay team the snack the shear zones oh
come on nice and close behind us and
thank you the Ross Ice Shelf team has
traveled about 30 miles and they’re
facing the most dangerous part of their
Traverse oh we’re just about to enter
into the she is on here we just want to
make sure that everybody’s capable
should the worst possible case happen
the shear zone looks like a safe patch
of snow but like Mount Erebus it’s full
of hidden crevasses first laughs and
benign as it looks is a lot going on one
side we’ve got sort of the McMurdo I
shelf and the other is the Ross Ice
Shelf that’s weird too large kind of ice
masses are coming together much like a
river comes together and the reason it’s
called a shear zone is because there’s
kind of a shearing effect between the
two so it’s quite an active area
interesting spot the sheer Zionist an
intimidating area around about six or so
kilometers that’s have number of
significantly large professors in them
we know that there’s a route through
there we really reduce that speed down
even further so that we’re a hundred
percent sure what we’re driving on is is
good to drive across just keep an extra
following distance 15 maybe 50 meters
we’re just gonna be gone a little bit
slower through here and if we stop you
should do we’re just gonna get all i
care prepared for crevasse rescue
proceed with caution fingers crossed
crossing the shear zone should take a
few hours but Tom and Rob have been
preparing for it for weeks
so this is the radar boom for pb 100 and
will be fitting a GPR unit
ground-penetrating radar and we’ll be
able to see on the monitor and when
we’re approaching crevices and that’ll
enable us to not drive into them
state-of-the-art technology real key
piece of this whole project for this
year and going into the future as well
so it’s got to get it up and running the
boom stretches 24 feet ahead and
connects to a screen that shows ice
composition up to 49 feet deep bends in
the lines indicate empty space under the
snow some of the crevasses through here
would literally swallow this whole
vehicle and probably the two trailers
behind it I’m sorry if we hadn’t looked
at the radar imagery and we actually
just carried on dropped into a crevasse
it’ll probably be all over
come on nice and close behind us and
thank you the Ross Ice Shelf team has
traveled about 30 miles and they’re
facing the most dangerous part of their
Traverse oh we’re just about to enter
into the she is on here we just want to
make sure that everybody’s capable
should the worst possible case happen
the shear zone looks like a safe patch
of snow but like Mount Erebus it’s full
of hidden crevasses first laughs and
benign as it looks is a lot going on one
side we’ve got sort of the McMurdo I
shelf and the other is the Ross Ice
Shelf that’s weird too large kind of ice
masses are coming together much like a
river comes together and the reason it’s
called a shear zone is because there’s
kind of a shearing effect between the
two so it’s quite an active area
interesting spot the sheer Zionist an
intimidating area around about six or so
kilometers that’s have number of
significantly large professors in them
we know that there’s a route through
there we really reduce that speed down
even further so that we’re a hundred
percent sure what we’re driving on is is
good to drive across just keep an extra
following distance 15 maybe 50 meters
we’re just gonna be gone a little bit
slower through here and if we stop you
should do we’re just gonna get all i
care prepared for crevasse rescue
proceed with caution fingers crossed
crossing the shear zone should take a
few hours but Tom and Rob have been
preparing for it for weeks
so this is the radar boom for pb 100 and
will be fitting a GPR unit
ground-penetrating radar and we’ll be
able to see on the monitor and when
we’re approaching crevices and that’ll
enable us to not drive into them
state-of-the-art technology real key
piece of this whole project for this
year and going into the future as well
so it’s got to get it up and running the
boom stretches 24 feet ahead and
connects to a screen that shows ice
composition up to 49 feet deep bends in
the lines indicate empty space under the
snow some of the crevasses through here
would literally swallow this whole
vehicle and probably the two trailers
behind it I’m sorry if we hadn’t looked
at the radar imagery and we actually
just carried on dropped into a crevasse
it’ll probably be all over
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