Antarctica Supply Ship Offload Time-Lapse

[gothsqwd]

I was there during that offload. When they first opened the deck hatches I was down on the peir directing fork lifts and K-Loaders. During the backload, the forward crane broke down.  Made things REAL interesting.

[WELLBRAN]

I noticed 3 pauses of the cranes...was that lunch breaks etc? lol

[Antzarctica]

God spotting. Yes it was.

[WELLBRAN]

Okay, not bad for southern hemisphere! usually would be more breaks! only joking of course!

[kboss2011]

is the camera facing the northwest?

[Antzarctica]

Yes indeed.

[PolarPerson98]

This was really cool! I did something similar with one of my videos of the Coast Guard Icebreaker Polar Star breaking ice down by McMurdo in 1998. I sped the film up 4 X so the cracks emanated from the boat like lightning.

[BlondeCurlsBlueEyes]

lol that was kinda funny :D With all the little cranes bouncing up and down and the ship wobbling all over the place lol. Just goes to show, speed things up an add some sweet and sugary music an it can make anything look cute - even a dirty great ship! Very funny :D And it must be really interesting to work there, I'd love to visit it some day...

[giddygiddy85]

iv done more research on the "UFO" in this video and yes it does appear to be a ufo that is breaking the ice,the aliens appear to be helping us,im just glad i could clear up all this confusion

[DamnedBoardRider92]

that '' ufo '' appear several times in the video... i hope it's a chopper

[giddygiddy85]

from 0.39 til 0.43 please tell me that u can see that ufo on the left flying round

[Antzarctica]

That is the other ice breaker ship ship working up and down the channel in the sea ice.

[giddygiddy85]

why does it dissapear off into the mountains, ice breakers look nothing like that either

[Antzarctica]

If you look closely, the area it is moving in is flat frozen sea ice, not sky. The horizon is above it.

[einmurfy]

how does someone get into this sort of work? is the a demand for any labour work in antartica?

[misterwesstuff]

United States Antarctic Research Program... google that to start... good luck

[winterover79]

It,s amazing how much has changed. Except the the place. It looks to be a bit more tolerable.

[fabio1456]

1:48 what is that thing flying in the backround?

[Antzarctica]

It's not flying, it is the ice breaker ship cutting the channel in the sea ice in the background.

[ubamilitary]

How do you get to go to antarctica?

I would like to go there for 6 months or so.

Maybe someplace needs an extra staff?

[NWforager]

i actually know how to operate pretty much everything there. What a trip to see it in that perspective.

[bradford1872]

So what was being offloaded there? Are you at liberty to say?

[Antzarctica]

Basically all the bulk cargo to last the next year. Frozen food, dried food, mechanical parts, building supplies etc etc.

[PinstripeJim]

Missles, ICBMs, Delta Force, remote control penguins and seals, Stryker vehicles with snow tires, and coffee.

Antzarctica also forgot to mention the alcohol for the next year.

[rocksalive777]

This video series is amazing. Great choice on the music - Danny Elfman is kind of awesome.

[T5radioop]

Good job. I liked the zoom shots better than the wide angle, but it was well done. The M/V Green Wave was the containership behind us when we went there in January/1988.

[ice9fetus81]

i noticed something flying on the sky.what is it?

[Antzarctica]

At about 30 seconds is just lens flares on the camera. The other object that whizzes by repeatedly in the background is actually the ice breaker ship plowing the sea ice to stop it from freezing up.

[theblue64]

Wait.. does Anarctica have internet?!

[Antzarctica]

My job is to keep the satellite link working, so yes, we do.

[behnnie]

LOL! I think more than the cold it would be living without internet that would keep me from surviving in a place like this! Thank God for the sat-link!

[paperbullet1945]

What powers the ship? Seems that being down there for so long with the cranes continually running would make it run low on fuel.

These are one-of-a-kind, great videos, by the way. You ought to do something for the Discovery Channel.

[Antzarctica]

I'm in the process of putting together a feature length film.

There are some of my clips featured on the Weather Channel now in the When Weather Makes History series.

[paperbullet1945]

Wow! I watch that sometimes. Where there any history-making moments in recent years, i.e., while you've been there?

[Antzarctica]

The episode about evacuating Jeri Nielson from the South Pole is the one that has the clips. I was based at Scott Base at the time, and met her a couple of times when she visited on R&R prior to being isolated for the winter.

[colemanmiller]

The ship has 3 generators onboard. Only one was used during the offload. I don't remember the fuel capacity of the ship but we fueled in New Zealand just before heading south and again before we headed back to the US. I believe it was about 3 weeks inbetween fuelings.

[jinxedjohn]

Excellent work... I loved watching this! I was down for the Winfly/summer season 2003/2004, but was injured while working and haven't been able to work since. I am now retired. I sure wish I was back there! Brings back great memories though!

[zulula123]

Unbelievable...

[4yall]

beautiful

[granskare]

with the music and the cranes at the video speed, it's like a ballet or operetta.  Nice :)

[axelprs]

woww the ship is empty

[Yezidism07]

Antz sensational video ;)

[low56got7]

UFO at 1:49, if you type in John Lear and click on Moon secrets revealed, that is actualy the ship unloading supplies to put in American made UFO's that luanch from Antarctica to go on secret missions to the Moon and Mars and other Planets.

[Antzarctica]

No, the UFOs are at 32 seconds, oh wait, that is just the lens flare, never mind.

[nwmancuso]

Ha Ha. No really that's just an ice breaker.

[singedrac]

Man, some nut's always gotta run the magic of videos like these with their pseudoscientific nonsense.

[PinstripeJim]

dude, go to McMurdo. That's all it is in the freetime

[KINGASH1ST]

wat was the object that passes by continuasly on the upper left of the screen? fighter jet or ufo?

[Antzarctica]

Top left is the sun going by, middle left is the ice breaker ship working the shipping channel to stop it from freezing solid.

[KINGASH1ST]

no at 41 seconds something passes like a helo/aircraft

[Antzarctica]

That is the Ice-Breaker ship. The photos were taken at 1 minute apart, so the ship that was going at about 2 knots would appear to be doing 3000 knots.

[redash2006]

cool video

[asi0asi]

the zooming is spectacular! do I calculate right that at 2.5 seconds per hour, it is about one frame taken per minute?

[Antzarctica]

That is indeed correct.

[angie1122]

What month would this be on?

[Antzarctica]

This was in Feb 2006.

[TheParsonsNose]

These are great little films.

[Clereece]

Wow - only once a year in summer and have to continually break the ice even then? Wow, hope those supplies last long enough.

The far footage of the supply ship looked like a big red bug on its back, kicking its feet around :P

[Socksee]

You are the Edward Burtynsky of video! Spectacular!

[Engineero]

I love how the shadow of the boat just keeps spinning around the boat with no nighttime.

[Domstersch]

That's awesome. The ship looks like a small toy, or a set from Thunderbirds.

From what I've read, there were extra-long shifts being worked over the offload.