With sea storms and an unfixable ship, things did not go according to plan on SH Diana’s trip to world’s southernmost continent, but Mark Stratton recounts how the cruise still ended up being a magnif ...
Unfortunately, the propeller issue could not be fixed so the decision was made not to continue to Antarctica, a further two-day journey away from inhabited land and help, should the need arise.
If all our fear and uncertainty over climate change could be distilled into a single statistic, then arguably it was delivered to an emergency summit on the future of the Antarctic last month.