Antarctic Peninsula

another disease.

When Ralph Venstriels sailed to the Danger Islands just off the Antarctic Peninsula, his team of researchers found penguin carcasses all over.

They took samples expecting to find the bird flu virus.

And their result was, yes, there is bird flu here, but the virus loads are low.

You're going to the Ice Age.

As you cross the Drake Passage towards the Antarctic Peninsula, you enter this realm of ice.

yeah you know um penguins and seals and albatross and whales and it is absolutely stunning so even from the ship you know you're looking up great ice falls coming down out of glacial neves on huge fluted uh antarctic peaks and the impact on people when they see that is just awe

yeah

A little different because most

people do Antarctic Peninsula and all that.

Correct.

But with those three ships, you have a lot more options now, right?

The first time I went, I went for two and a half years.

But seeing those experiences by taking people on a ship to these remote places and those experiences that build up of, you know, two days across the Drake Passage from South America to the Antarctic Peninsula.

You know, people come from this incredibly busy world, whether it be Melbourne, Sydney or Auckland or wherever, or London.

But people come out of this incredible busy day-to-day life of Uber Eats or whatever it may be to Southern South America and then have these couple of days on the ship.

So for the third time, Shackleton announced that the destination had been changed.

This time, it became Hope Bay, about 130 miles at the tip of the Palmer Peninsula beyond Joinville Island.

For the second night running, there was no sleep, though a few men snuggled together in hopes of generating enough warmth to drop off for a moment.

But it was achingly cold.

Changes in krill abundance reverberate through the entire Antarctic food web.

Scientific evidence suggests krill densities across the Antarctic Peninsula, where much of the industrial krill fishing is concentrated, may have declined by as much as 80% since the 1970s.

So if you're a person who thinks that taking a krill supplement is important for your health, perhaps maybe you need to factor in the health of the planet.

I think so.

So we did Churchill.

We did Antarctic Peninsula.

We've done Galapagos, Svalbard, Kutumateen, Grizzly Bear Sanctuary in northern BC.

We actually went back down and did Falklands, South Georgia, and back to Antarctica.

It's also happening in the waters down by the Antarctic and the South Ocean.

around the Antarctic Peninsula.

They have bursts of methane that's starting to come up, huge seams that they've just discovered within the last year.

A Spanish expedition of scientists discovered this a year ago.