Ross Sea Connection

It’s 7 a.m. and I’m just sitting down to write about yesterday. I can scarcely remember the emergency glider recovery that Dr. Josh Kohut and Eli Hunter put into motion at 2:30 a.m. yesterday morning. Then the clouds descended and the wind picked up, and the chief mate closed the decks, keeping us all inside […]

Today’s story starts yesterday evening, and it features valuable items lost at the bottom of the sea, a midnight rescue plan sketched out on a napkin, a grappling hook as tall as a person, and a creature that looks like a space flower. We had come to Cape Adare to help Bruce Huber of Lamont-Doherty […]