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--------------A50A599F5B25051BAB413157 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Pete, Matthias, Thanks for your messages. Going to Antartica has been a dream of mine for a long time but only after I've sailed close to it a few years ago is that I started to make more solid plans. The reason I am going to the Peninsula (and not to McMurdo or the Artic) is that I live in Brasil and the Peninsula is just down there (relatively speaking). My plan is to sail out of Usuaia on a 60 foot steel boat and stay onboard most of the time. I will not be only diving, we are planning to do some ice climbing and general sight seeing. I got some friends that work in Antartic sailboats in the Peninsula area but since diving is not their main purpose of going down there, they are not sure of what the best sites would be. I would also like to do some fresh water diving but it would have to be pretty close to the coast since the boat is my only means transportation. Funny you (Matthias) mention the leopard seals. I know a girl that has been diving there when a leopard seal came in to the water. She jumped right out and the captain of the boat said there was no reports of a leopard seal attack to divers in Antartica. She was wise and decided she was not going to be the first! Ligia Gilldiver@ao*.co* wrote: > For a good overview of Antarctic diving try this site: > > http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/index.html > > The vis depends on the season. Winter is best with the plankton bloom > being > pretty bad in the summer. Most of the diving under the ice is done in > the > southern spring when the ice is still solid but the plankton has not > got > going yet > > Now you can't just go there. To dive at McMurdo you have to be invited > down. > If you just drop in you will get a very cold shoulder and told that > the base > facilities are not available to un-approved nonscientific personal. > > There are a few cruse lines running adventure trips down there from > Chile or > Argentina. Try look in the outward bound type magazines. > > Pete Johnson --------------A50A599F5B25051BAB413157 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Hi Pete, Matthias, <p>Thanks for your messages. <p>Going to Antartica has been a dream of mine for a long time but only after I've sailed close to it a few years ago is that I started to make more solid plans. <p>The reason I am going to the Peninsula (and not to McMurdo or the Artic) is that I live in Brasil and the Peninsula is just down there (relatively speaking). My plan is to sail out of Usuaia on a 60 foot steel boat and stay onboard most of the time. I will not be only diving, we are planning to do some ice climbing and general sight seeing. <p>I got some friends that work in Antartic sailboats in the Peninsula area but since diving is not their main purpose of going down there, they are not sure of what the best sites would be. I would also like to do some fresh water diving but it would have to be pretty close to the coast since the boat is my only means transportation. <p>Funny you (Matthias) mention the leopard seals. I know a girl that has been diving there when a leopard seal came in to the water. She jumped right out and the captain of the boat said there was no reports of a leopard seal attack to divers in Antartica. She was wise and decided she was not going to be the first! <p>Ligia <p>Gilldiver@ao*.co* wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>For a good overview of Antarctic diving try this site:</font></font> <p><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1><A HREF="http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/index.html">http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/ index.html</A></font></font> <p><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>The vis depends on the season. Winter is best with the plankton bloom being</font></font> <br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>pretty bad in the summer. Most of the diving under the ice is done in the</font></font> <br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>southern spring when the ice is still solid but the plankton has not got</font></font> <br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>going yet</font></font> <p><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>Now you can't just go there. To dive at McMurdo you have to be invited down.</font></font> <br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>If you just drop in you will get a very cold shoulder and told that the base</font></font> <br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>facilities are not available to un-approved nonscientific personal.</font></font> <p><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>There are a few cruse lines running adventure trips down there from Chile or</font></font> <br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>Argentina. Try look in the outward bound type magazines.</font></font> <p><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>Pete Johnson</font></font></blockquote> </html> --------------A50A599F5B25051BAB413157-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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