Hi everyone, it's Dan Snow here. I'm currently about 45 degrees south. I am halfway through

the circle of roaring 40s, which is meant to be on the roughest stretch of water on planet

Earth, but it's been kind to us at the moment. We managed to skirt past one giant storm.

A storm that if you look on the weather map, you'll see almost touches at South Africa,

all the way down to Antarctic, constant, a giant storm, a thousand miles wide. We managed

to skirt around the north edge of that. We're now nipping south between that storm and the

one following after it. This part of the world just sees a series of swirling depressions

that go right around the bottom of the world, right across the southern ocean, with nothing

to break up their momentum. We're doing around 30 and 50 miles a day, so currently we're

expecting to reach the ice on Monday, Valentine's Day, February the 14th, which is the day before

Shagridan's birthday, so hopefully that is a good omen. But in between us and the ice at

the moment, we have got a big storm. We've just been told by the meteorologist on board

that from Saturday morning, we're going to have waves up to five meters and winds gusting

to 14 knots, so pretty punchy. Everything on board is lashed down because equipment damage,

things sliding about and smashing into each other would be devastating for the journey.

I think now that I've got an update from the storm itself, if it's traumatic or when

we get to the ice, the temperature by the way is dropping, it is chilly out there today.

So we're expecting to see the first few detached icebergs in the next 24-36 hours. More coming

up folks.