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4 août 2011

Saturday, July 30th / samedi 30 juillet

Early in the morning, everyone is preparing for battle; the iceberg is in view around 7 am. We’re off! A prudent approach starts. Naturally, the barge and helicopter are put to use. A team leaves to work on the iceberg to place the GPS and set up a weather...

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4 août 2011

Friday, July 29th / vendredi 29 juillet

At 4 o’clock in the morning, masked people entered our rooms, awakening us from our slumbers. The told us to get to the flight deck right away. The traditional ritual of the crossing of the Arctic Circle had begun. Joannie Ferland, extremely hyper, led...

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4 août 2011

Thursday, July 28th / jeudi 28 juillet

Our bodies have begun to adapt gradually to the apparent changing of seasons. The temperature this morning was 3˚C behind the wheelhouse. This said, Thursday morning, at breakfast, there are crepes! A real treat! The chef even gave us the recipe! 24 eggs,...

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4 août 2011

Wednesday, July 27th / mercredi 27 juillet

Always foggy, foggy again... the fulmars are still surrounding the ship. We crossed the Arctic Circle around 6:30 this morning and continue to navigate along the coast of Baffin Island without being able to see it…frustrating! The foghorn is still ringing...

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28 juillet 2011

Tuesday, July 26 th / mardi 26 juillet

At 6:00 am, we started a “full station”. We are still in Cumberland Sound. The fog lifted a little and we can begin to see a little more of the desolate landscape of Baffin Island. A group of fulmars surround the ship, calmly bobbing at the surface in...

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28 juillet 2011

Monday, July 25th / lundi 25 juillet

The day begins in Cumberland Sound around 3:00 am. Maxime Geoffroy and Shani Rousseau, from the Louis Fortier team, find many schools of fish with the SX 90 sonar. This sonar, made by the company Köngsberg, was designed for fishing. Louis Fortier’s team...

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28 juillet 2011

Sunday, July 24th / dimanche 24 juillet

At 2:30 am, the sky is already well lit. At this time, the first rosette of the 2011 mission is already in the water, cast 001, station 185. The rosette is made up of one, if not the most essential instrument of modern-day oceanography. It is a metallic...

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28 juillet 2011

Saturday, July 23rd / samedi 23 juillet

After an agitated night, punctuated by a strong rolling of the ship accompanied by the foghorn, the sun is peaking through the clouds, and the wind has started to calm down. We are still sailing by the coast of Labrador. A flock of petrels accompanied...

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23 juillet 2011

Friday, July 22th / vendredi 22 juillet

We were informed that around 4:00 am we would be encountering an iceberg, and not just any iceberg: the PII-A for the intimate, or the Petermann Ice Island A. A beautiful tabular iceberg which has existed since 2010, August 8 th to be exact. This iceberg...

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23 juillet 2011

Thursday, July 21st / jeudi 21 juillet

Starting this morning, a free sun flooded a pure blue sky. The shell of the Amundsen turned a vivid red, white foam was splashing each side forming beautiful wake. On the flight deck, in the calm, we could take out our deck chairs and swimsuits, there...

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