antarctica

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/18337531[/vimeo] Sure we’ve all seen and heard of the horror stories involving a boat full of tourists packed onto a ill-equipped

Some more bad news coming from the Southern Ocean over the weekend. At approximately 6.30am yesterday, the Korean fishing vessel No 707 Hongjin sank about

Check out this video of the Antarctic cruise ship, Clelia II, as it “limps” back to Argentina in heavy seas.  The vessel, with 100 passengers and

For those of you who have been following the site, you probably are aware that gCaptain.com has a sister site (actually more of a brother site) called

An investigation conducted by the Liberian Bureau of Maritime Affairs into the circumstances of the sinking of M/V Explorer concluded that the decision by the

(Photo: Reuters) The Bahaman-flagged cruise ship, Ocean Nova, ran aground in Antarctica’s Marguerite Bay amid high winds and rough seas Tuesday morning

Yesterday, we touched briefly upon on the Argentine passenger vessel, Ushuaia, that ran aground Thursday on Antartica’s western peninsula. We are now

As the weather cools in the northern hemisphere the most southern continent gets the slightest bit hospitable and the war against mother nature begins again.

  Press reports from around the world are reporting info on the above.   Here’s an excerpt from the  Guardian UK:   A vast hunk of

BitterEnd reports that the Royal Navy Ice patrol ship HMS ENDURANCE, which amongst other tasks is carrying survey work in the Antarctic on behalf of the United

In breaking news from the Antarctic Japanese whalers have taken two activists hostage after they boarded the whaling ship Yushin Maru. The BBC tells us; The

The Spirit of Shacketon – Aboard the M/S Explorer by Michael Morrissey On 11 November 2007 Sola and I departed from Ushuaia, Argentina aboard the M/S

Boing Boing and Cryptomundo bring us news of a new species of Killer Whale. Revealing once again how little we know about our oceans’ inhabitants,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pg6CdettEQ Video Notes: The annual supply ship the American Tern being unloaded at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Time-lapse

Time has an amazing photo slideshow titled Life Under The Antartic Ice