I found a Facebook page where the Treshnikov crew of SPI-ACE people post videos and updates so I asked a question in comments-- "How can we independently verify location coordinates?".
ACE Expedition - Timeline
https://www.facebook.com/ACEexpedition/videos/1083508005110029/
It's be interesting to see anyone answer. Frankly, I don't think they're doing a circumnavigation. There are no coordinates published on any map I can find and even if they were travelling roughly in the area they say they are, there are no photos of the stars to verify location at night. The entire thing is possibly a hoax like the solo-crossings of Antarctica or the Vendee races south of 60 degrees latitude.
ACE Expedition - Timeline
https://www.facebook.com/ACEexpedition/videos/1083508005110029/
It's be interesting to see anyone answer. Frankly, I don't think they're doing a circumnavigation. There are no coordinates published on any map I can find and even if they were travelling roughly in the area they say they are, there are no photos of the stars to verify location at night. The entire thing is possibly a hoax like the solo-crossings of Antarctica or the Vendee races south of 60 degrees latitude.
I watched the other video found on that FB page
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNfh0D2wuKE
and it left me somewhat underwhelmed. The science seemed so abstract, like those experiments we are told about on the ISS. And research vessels go to Antarctica all the time, so I don't see how it's a "rare opportunity" to learn more about our "changing world". So the weather was too bad to do much "research" on leg 1 [cue one big wave crashing over the bow....] Really?
Right. This journey is very thin on substance indeed.
ReplyDeleteYour question to ACE went unanswered, Rick.
DeleteHere's the "ice core team" flown inland by helicopter...photo by their accompanying Al Jazeera journo [uploaded to Facebook Jan 31 2017 08.57 UTC]
https://scontent.flhr3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16298952_1088716147922548_5913470252644672173_n.jpg?oh=16c3415c2472d1412e412c8f6e122453&oe=594B3ED4
As you say, very thin on substance.