Comments on: Under the Ice: Research Diving in Antarctica

By: Hervey Harris

Hervey Harris — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:10:00 +0000

small price for the knowledge we gain …

By: Strabo

Strabo — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:40:00 +0000

I was so hoping that when I opened up the dry-erase board map for a closer look that someone had drawn a dragon on it. I am very happy that they did not disappoint me.

Also, “Release the cracken,” is awesome (though misspelled, or possibly a pun?).

By: P Nielsen Hayden

P Nielsen Hayden — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:40:00 +0000

Henry Kaiser has been one of my favorite musicians since forever. But I had no idea he was doing this as well. Some people just have amazing lives.

By: David Bresnahan

David Bresnahan — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:54:00 +0000

Please pass on my greeting to my friend Henry.

Dave B

By: Lobster

Lobster — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:25:00 +0000

Can you tell me how their hypocrisy negates their research?

By: TokenFrenchDude

TokenFrenchDude — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:03:00 +0000

Great. Diving in the cold sea, blocked by ice ? This is the stuff my nightmares are made of.

By: tolmie tolmie

tolmie tolmie — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:42:00 +0000

hmmm the people at Antarctica have a HUGE carbon footprint imagine all the airlifts that they get, imagine all the fuel they burn heating their living quaters etc, nearly every scrap of food is flown in AND they use snowmachines and other track vehicles to travel around the region. can you say HYPOCRITE ??

By: Shannon Larratt

Shannon Larratt — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:31:00 +0000

There is of course much beautiful footage of such diving in Werner Herzog’s experimental sci-fi film Wild Blue Yonder — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Blue_Yonder

By: Jardine

Jardine — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:54:00 +0000

What are you talking about? There are plenty of ski hills in Ontario. People still go ice fishing.

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:27:00 +0000

That is a very, very nice compliment, Daniel. Though, in this case, credit should go to Henry. ;)

By: hengsure

hengsure — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:21:00 +0000

Maggie and Henry, thanks for the report. My Buddhist teacher when asked about humanity’s impact on the planet, said with a toss-off laugh, “Sure, we’re going to mess this planet up, and ruin it. It’s what we do, every time. Greed does us in and we never learn.”

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:23:00 +0000

Maggie, you are my favorite science journalist except for Carl Zimmer. (Hopefully this comes across as a very nice compliment.)

By: caddywumpus

caddywumpus — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:07:00 +0000

Thanks for the great post. I worked in McMurdo in the summer of ’09-’10. What a magical place.

By: Nadreck

Nadreck — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:11:00 +0000

Welcome to the club. Ontario used to (past tense) have a multi-million dollar ice fishing industry just as it used to have a ski industry. The current anti-business federal government continues to deny that anything is changing or that anything needs to be done.

By: baronkarza

baronkarza — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:09:00 +0000

BRRRRRR!!

By: Lobster

Lobster — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:06:00 +0000

November 1, 2011: It’s very cold.
November 8, 2011: Still very cold.
November 15, 2011: Oh man, this has got to be like, scientifically unproven levels of cold.
November 22, 2011: I saw a jellyfish! It was super cold.

By: Art

Art — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:45:00 +0000

WOW! Simply Amazing!!!! Thanks for the post, Maggie.