Wind, fire, and ice : the perils of a coast guard icebreaker in Antarctica /
Bunes, Robert M., 1943-
Wind, fire, and ice : the perils of a coast guard icebreaker in Antarctica / Robert M. Bunes. - xi, 283 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- In Shackleton's wake -- The year before -- Introduction to military life -- Reality check -- A promise -- Cast off -- Death at sea -- Straits of Magellan -- Punta Arenas -- Drake passage -- The southern ocean -- Elephant Island -- Antarctica -- The mighty glacier -- The weddell sea -- Titanic -- Hump day -- Icebreaker life -- Trapped -- Survival -- The polar night -- Movement -- Confrontation -- Life or death -- Mountainous seas -- The last straw -- Trip report -- Answers -- Epilogue -- Curated videos -- Acknowledgements.
"Between 1955 and 1987, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Glacier was the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the free world. Consequently, it was often given the most difficult and dangerous Antarctic missions. This is the dramatic first-person account of its most legendary voyage. In 1970, the author was the Chief Medical Officer on the Glacier when it became trapped deep in the Weddell Sea, pressured by 100 miles of wind-blown icepack. Glacier was beset within seventy miles of where Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was imprisoned in 1915. His stout wooden ship succumbed to the crushing pressure of the infamous Weddell Sea pack ice and sank, leading to an unbelievable two-year saga of hardship, heroism and survival. The sailors aboard the Glacier feared they would suffer Shackleton's fate, or one even worse. Freakishly good luck eventually saved the Glacier from destruction in the crushing ice pack, only to experience a three-hour fire that nearly killed one of the crew, followed by eighty foot waves that came close to capsizing the ship. Wind, Fire, and Ice is a story about a physician who starts out with a set of false assumptions-namely that he is going have an easy assignment and see numerous exotic ports, but then slowly comes to realize a much different hard reality"--
9781493060344 1493060341
2021016540
GBC1G5968 bnb
020349601 Uk
United States. Coast Guard.
Glaciers--History--Antarctica--20th century.
Icebreakers (Ships)--History--Arctic regions--20th century.
Survival at sea--History--Arctic regions--20th century.
Medical personnel--Arctic regions.
Wind, fire, and ice : the perils of a coast guard icebreaker in Antarctica / Robert M. Bunes. - xi, 283 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- In Shackleton's wake -- The year before -- Introduction to military life -- Reality check -- A promise -- Cast off -- Death at sea -- Straits of Magellan -- Punta Arenas -- Drake passage -- The southern ocean -- Elephant Island -- Antarctica -- The mighty glacier -- The weddell sea -- Titanic -- Hump day -- Icebreaker life -- Trapped -- Survival -- The polar night -- Movement -- Confrontation -- Life or death -- Mountainous seas -- The last straw -- Trip report -- Answers -- Epilogue -- Curated videos -- Acknowledgements.
"Between 1955 and 1987, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Glacier was the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the free world. Consequently, it was often given the most difficult and dangerous Antarctic missions. This is the dramatic first-person account of its most legendary voyage. In 1970, the author was the Chief Medical Officer on the Glacier when it became trapped deep in the Weddell Sea, pressured by 100 miles of wind-blown icepack. Glacier was beset within seventy miles of where Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was imprisoned in 1915. His stout wooden ship succumbed to the crushing pressure of the infamous Weddell Sea pack ice and sank, leading to an unbelievable two-year saga of hardship, heroism and survival. The sailors aboard the Glacier feared they would suffer Shackleton's fate, or one even worse. Freakishly good luck eventually saved the Glacier from destruction in the crushing ice pack, only to experience a three-hour fire that nearly killed one of the crew, followed by eighty foot waves that came close to capsizing the ship. Wind, Fire, and Ice is a story about a physician who starts out with a set of false assumptions-namely that he is going have an easy assignment and see numerous exotic ports, but then slowly comes to realize a much different hard reality"--
9781493060344 1493060341
2021016540
GBC1G5968 bnb
020349601 Uk
United States. Coast Guard.
Glaciers--History--Antarctica--20th century.
Icebreakers (Ships)--History--Arctic regions--20th century.
Survival at sea--History--Arctic regions--20th century.
Medical personnel--Arctic regions.