90° South

Ice Drilling at the South Pole

Sun, 18 Nov 2007

First day off

Today is my first day off. This gives me some time to give a status update. I am sitting in my cold jamesway while writing this. Somebody before me must have noticed the problem with cold jamesway already an installed a fireplace. Unfortunately it does not spend a lot of heat.

jamesway fire place

For those of you who have been here, earlier this week we had the end of an era. The sign at the end of the dome entrance was removed. It just didn't look the same anymore.

DOME entrance without sign

As for work, we are still preparing for drilling. Most of my time I did electrical work. A main part was hooking up the high pressure pump motors.

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