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Day 1: Welcome to Svalbard
Day 2: Life on the Edge
Day 3: Getting there is fun
Day 4: Happy Fourth of July
Day 5: ABCs of CTDs
Day 6: Echoes from the deep
Day 7: Happy Campers
Day 8: Puma: Unveiled unleashed
Day 9: A walk in the dark
Day 10: Down and back
Day 11: Moving on
Day 12: Our eye in the sky
Day 13: Way to a mariner’s heart
Day 14: Breaking the ice
Day 15: Battle stations
Day 16: Let there be light
Day 17: Whoowee, up she rises
Day 18: ‘Going with the floe’
Day 19: Not going with the floe
Day 20: There and back again
Day 21: Tools of the trades
Day 22: It’s out there somewhere
Day 23: A day in the office
Day 24: While the sun shines
Day 25: It takes a village
Day 26: Working in the Arctic
Day 27: A Cupcake and a Donut
Day 28: Another Saturday night
Day 29: Never a routine day
Day 30: An undersea cliffhanger
Day 31: 24 hours
Day 32: Signs of time passing
Day 33: Next generation
Day 34: We're on our way home
Day 35: Re-entry
Day 36: A day in bear country
Day 37: Into the Barents Sea
Day 38: Stay tuned.
Day 39: Voyage to the Arctic
Getting there is half the fun
Day 3, posted July 4, 2007
by Lonny Lippsett , photos by Chris Linder
By midnight Wednesday, only about 80 nautical miles separated us from our first target site. A little more than an hour by car, but a lot longer by icebreaker through the Arctic pack ice. There are no definite routes through the Arctic. You have to find and follow your own “leads.”
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