ENDURANCE22: Onto the Ice
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Dan takes the podcast out onto the Antarctic ice to find penguins, seals and the expedition scientists conducting experiments. He joins Dr Stefanie Arndt of the Alfred Wegener Institute as she researches climate change in the Weddell Sea's ice. Dan catches her just as she discovers some tiny and very rare snow crystals and her enthusiasm is infectious.
He also takes a trip back up to the ship's bridge to speak with Captain Knowledge Bengu, South Africa's first black ice pilot about his trailblazing career and the sheer might of the SA Agulhas II as he navigates through the heavy ice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there buddy, welcome to Dan Snow's History. I'm sitting in a snowstorm in the |
| 0:05.6 | wedelsea staring out of my porthole at an expanse of white. There is no way to |
| 0:10.2 | tell where the sea ice ends and the sky begins. We're still here in the |
| 0:14.1 | wedelsea. We're still searching for shackles and ship endurance. In this |
| 0:18.6 | episode you're going to hear from the captain of the ship Captain Knowledge |
| 0:21.8 | Ben Goo, the first black African ice pilot, first black African and tactics |
| 0:26.2 | survey vessel Skipper in history. You're also going to hear about my trip to the |
| 0:29.6 | ice we climbed off. We got cramed off the gillars too. On to the ice pack we walked |
| 0:34.8 | around and ice was about a meter thick. Hopefully well bit more. Sometimes a bit |
| 0:38.6 | less as you'll hear. I took a couple of ice scientists. You're going to be |
| 0:41.4 | hearing from leading ice and snow specialist Steffi out. She's a German |
| 0:46.2 | scientist as you'll hear. She's happiest on the ice. I just want to quickly |
| 0:49.8 | address the fact that war has broken out in Europe. I'm down here and some of you |
| 0:54.7 | may think I'm merrily chirping on and posting on Instagram and TikTok and |
| 0:58.6 | other platforms and there's something somehow inappropriate and jarring about |
| 1:02.8 | that. I am very very aware of the bizarre resonance, the bizarre parallels |
| 1:07.4 | between Shaggleton leaving Britain at the beginning of August 1914 as Europe |
| 1:11.6 | went to war as the Austrians prepared to invade Ukrainian Russian |
| 1:15.6 | health territory and us leaving and coming to the wedelsea and war breaking out |
| 1:20.6 | in Eastern Europe again. We're in Jürgenstvary tour in International |
| 1:23.8 | Expedition. We are a Russian national on the ship. We are keenly aware of what's |
| 1:27.8 | going. We're following it very closely and we are particularly missing |
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