Antarctic Cruises…


 


"Beware the Latitudes of Capricorn

and the great South Equatorial,

for there the Kraken waits in silence"
 

from the journal of Captain Jerimiah Pollard
Master of the whaler Prudent Mary (1854)

 
 


Left, The RRS Discovery in Cape Town ; right Dr Tome Haine (right) and Dr Monica Costa boogie the night away in the Discovery 'disco'…


 
 

As part of my PhD work I went on two Antarctic cruises aboard the RRS Discovery. ADOX1 (ADOX = Antarctic Deep Outflow eXperiment) lasted from the 6th of February until the 18th of March, 1993. ADOX2 was from the 19th of February until the 31st of March, 1994. Both cruises started from Cape Town ; the first finishing back in Cape Town and the second ending up in Mauritius.
 


ADOX 1  ADOX 2

(Click on maps for full sized image - circles are station positions, i.e. where the ship stopped to take measurements of e.g. Temperature, Salinity etc.)
 
 
 
 

The Southern tip of Africa….


 
 

The main scientific objectives of the ADOX cruises formed part of a wider international investigation into the rates and pathways of the global abyssal circulation as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE).
 
 

The most important place on the ship (where all the REAL work is done…).


 
 
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