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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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11 août 2011

Monday, August 8th / lundi 8 août

We are in Larsen Sound. The full station started during the night. It is a busy day: starting this morning, the CTD sensors on the rosette that had been launched showed very high levels of chlorophyll - a bloom! Not only were the filters filtering the...

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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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23 juillet 2011

Tuesday, July 19th /mardi 19 juillet

Around 8:00, the firm Océan delivered the newly-made pieces. We’re making progress! The engineers on board are like new under pressure. At 3:15 pm, the captain was told that the propeller would be ready for 4:30 pm. The Amundsen lifted its anchor for...

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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

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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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

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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23 juillet 2011

Monday, July 18th / lundi 18 juillet

D Day, everyone has to be on board by 8:00 am, we are planning on setting sail near noon, the excitement is growing on board. We are using this morning to have our abandon ship exercises. Close family members are on the dock. The gangplank is lifted and...

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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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21 août 2011

Tuesday, August 9th / mardi 9 août

We are continuing our descent to the south. Early this morning, between midnight and one o’clock, the sun dipped below the horizon. It wasn’t really a true night. A twilight light stayed, and the sun rose around 5 am behind a layer of clouds. We arrived...

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23 août 2011

Monday, August 22nd / lundi 22 aout

11 members of the science team stayed at the PCSP in Resolute during the first week of August. We are all devastated by the tragedy of the First Air flight 6560 in Resolute. Our thoughts are with the family and colleagues of Marty Bergmann, a man who...

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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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28 octobre 2011

during october 2011/ pendant octobre 2011

We asked the team of geophysicists on board to explain their work. Travis Hamilton sent us this text with a few documents and photos: "The role of our team is to map the bottom topography and geological structure of the Arctic Seabed. We use a multibeam...

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21 août 2011

Wednesday, August 10th / mercredi 10 août

W e are continuing our route to Kugluktuk (formerly Coppermine), our destination point, navigating between the North American continent and Victoria Island. There is no more ice present we are in open water. The mission came to an end this morning. The...

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11 août 2011

Saturday, August 6th / samedi 6 août

After having spend the previous night hiding from the wind, the Amundsen lifted its anchor and left Qausuittuq (Resolute) early this morning. We head towards Lancaster Sound where we reencounter the fog yet again. The horn blares. We are going to retrieve...

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23 juillet 2011

Wednesday, July 20th / mercredi 20 juillet

We passed Rimouski around 6:30 am, the weather is encroaching over us little by little, in the fog, the rain catches up to us. The beautiful sunlight we experienced in Québec has left us... Everyone is busy in their lab, setting up their equipment so...

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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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21 août 2011

Thursday, August 11th / jeudi 11 août

Kugluktuk, 067˚50’662” N, 115˚08’054” W! Crew change day has arrived. Almost everyone will be disembarking from the ship. In order to have enough time to get everyone off the ship via helicopter, breakfast was pushed an hour earlier. Our bags are packed,...

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11 août 2011

Sunday, August 7th / dimanche 7 août

We started today in Peel Sound. The fog has lifted. Around 11:00 am we pass our first piece of ice. Will there be more to come soon? Since the beginning of the morning, Simon Bélanger has been collecting his data with his optical instruments that are...

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5 août 2011

Sunday, July 31st / dimanche 31 juillet

We are unable to differentiate day from night. The day yesterday never finished – it’s more the opposite. It started in the previous day under a grey sky. The overcast sky broke up around 4:00 pm and was replaced by bright sunlight. At midnight, the sun...

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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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10 septembre 2011

Friday, September 9th /vendredi 9 septembre

As mentioned in a precedent post, we have received some news from Derek Mueller who told us about the work his team has done around the iceberg on July, 30th : "Our team is working in conjunction with the Canadian Ice Service http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/...

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