Antarctica

Has anyone been to Antartica?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    yes

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      three times

      A friend of my brother just came back from working there for like 5 months. Seemed ok.

      Yeah, did one season there working at McMurdo Station.

      Email me back ~~*you*~~

      Elaborate.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Elaborate on what? You want me to just explain literally everything about the continent?
        >"Yes I've been to France"
        >(You): "Elaborate."

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          If you were there, give us the full picture

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Are you wanting to know about working there, going there, or do you just want to know what the continent is like geographically?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >

        yes

        (You)
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        three times

        (You)
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        A friend of my brother just came back from working there for like 5 months. Seemed ok.


        >

        Yeah, did one season there working at McMurdo Station.

        Email me back ~~*you*~~
        >Elaborate.

        Been down to remote areas of the ice shelf three times, twice departing from New Zealand and once via South Africa, sailing as 2nd Mate on ocean circulation water sampling expeditions.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Based. What maritime academy did you go to? I just got accepted to Maine and I start this fall. Hoping to one day be a deck officer on one of the resupply ships so I can go back to McMurdo and make some real money in the process instead of the scraps I was making when I was a contractor there.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >

            https://i.imgur.com/KZKWRDQ.jpg

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            >Elaborate.

            Been down to remote areas of the ice shelf three times, twice departing from New Zealand and once via South Africa, sailing as 2nd Mate on ocean circulation water sampling expeditions. (You)
            >Based. What maritime academy did you go to? I just got accepted to Maine and I start this fall. Hoping to one day be a deck officer on one of the resupply ships so I can go back to McMurdo and make some real money in the process instead of the scraps I was making when I was a contractor there.

            I'm a Maine grad 1998 lol, hold my Master Mariners Unlimited but I retired from the ocean after 15 years sailing, working a global class 274' research vessel is kinda hard on the body, drinking way coffee out there and high blood pressure, and a desire to settle down with a family which is almost impossible when out doing expedition work. But I did see the world (been to over 100 countries) when things were still a ton of fun and with great travel benefits, shit like getting off the ship on rotation leave in Thailand, being free to travel for 4 months, and getting a paid flight from where ever in the world to my next port - I don't know if that stuff is even possible in post COVID world.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Sheeeit you sound like future me. From what I gather those things are back from the pre covid world. Do worry about being able to start a family one day though. Did you work cargo or cruise? Or did you just do research vessel?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I went strait from graduation to a flight to Hawaii for a rotation as AB to start (and they apologized they weren't sending me someplace more exotic ha), I was with UCSD Scripps which had the two global class vessels, a mid range vessel, and a local West Coast range vessel. Then spent six months as mate with their coastal research vessel, and then up to 3rd Mate on the global class ships for the rest of my career moving up the ladder to Chief Mate.

                At Maine Maritime I did my cadet shipping on a US Army Core hopper dredge and a run to Germany on a 1,000' plus military sealift command RoRo. I enjoyed the research vessels, cool and remote ports - Easter Island, Galapagos, Patagonia......, science chicks on the ship, ample time off in port, interesting science going on around you, and the ships were fun to pilot with the 360 degree stern thrusters, bow thruster, and dynamic positioning. Money was descent being single and all, but could have made a bunch more working cargo, but then that's boring as hell. You will have to deal with tons of stupid paperwork, audits, an office that has their finger on you due to modern comms and internet capabilities, and never ending training classes ashore - all part of the fun getting squeezed out of it. Finished my maritime career leaving Scripps and did a year as a Captain on a big USAID funded typhoon humanitarian response, commanding a landing vessel and the overall landing effort to bring housing supplies to remote offshore islands in Chuuk and Yap, Micronesia. I now run an ATM company.

                Sounds like you are a bit older having been a contractor, which is helpful if going to MMA with non-trad status - you get more respect, housing, and relaxed uniform privileges and all. Beautiful location and good if you like the outdoors, but remote and bleak in the winter. Ton more chicks there now compared to when I when, but still pretty shitty on that front.

                Pic - tabby bergs off Antarctica

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Damn, hell of a career. Hope I could accomplish half as much as you did. Any idea if it's pretty tough to land a research vessel gig these days? Know anybody who worked cruises? I've considered doing the cruise thing for a bit primarily because I'd have access to a real gym and good food. Would probably hate it though I'm guessing.

                Yeah, I'm 33 and currently deployed to the middle east with the Air Guard until June(I went to the ice as a contractor though). The housing situation is proving to be a nightmare around Castine and I'll most likely end up trying to live in the commons or as a last resort the dorms. Probably a good thing there's such few ladies there though, help keep me from getting distracted because I'm sure the math is going to kick my ass.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                So actually from what I understand its pretty easy, they are struggling to match pay with the Gulf of Mexico oil field vessels, and thats after Scripps recently unionized and gave the sailors all a better deal. But the maritime industry shifts and changes, who knows what the job market will be in 2-4 years, but MMA grads are always valued and can find something if they really want it.

                Don't really know so much about cruise ships other than they are mostly foreign flagged and they crew up officers outside the US for low pay.

                With experience with Air Guard and as an ice contractor you will probably do fine with the regimented lifestyle aspect of MMA, on the deck side the math isn't too bad, vector physics and just memorizing equations, and being very very precise about your navigation work is the hardest part - I was not good at math and was scared I would fail out but ended up graduating 2nd in my class, so it can be done.

                The girls there will all be young, full of themselves, and a pain in the ass, best find a woman you can be with outside of Castine on the weekends, I was down in Portland with my chick every weekend when I didn't have watch duty my Jr and Sr year, but closer by Belfast is a pretty cool little town less than an hour away, and Rockland another 45 min or so South of that.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, I'm not worried about the regimented thing. Should be sort of funny since I think we can wear our ribbon racks in our regiment uniforms so I bet mine will be like twice as large as anyone else's since I'm almost at 10 years time in service.

                I've been trying to speed myself back up with math starting at the algebra 1 level before I take precalc. The transfer advisor spooked me into thinking I have to really hit it hard in order to catch up considering I haven't taken a real math class since I was 17.

                Heard Portland is great, I'll check those other towns too. Any thoughts on Bangor? I'll be transferring to their Air Guard base at some point most likely.

                >The housing situation is proving to be a nightmare around Castine

                Would suck to be in the old dorms, I think they must have expanded some on campus housing, but work hard to try to be a roommate with some guys who are in one of the summer cottages, there are some pretty nice places that would make the experience a ton better if you can score a house. One of my older buddies lived with the light house keeper at Dice's Head Light - killer spot.

                Yeah, I'm sure I'll figure something out when it comes to housing. I'm no stranger to weird living situations and worse comes to worse I'll just buy an RV and find a place to park it and shower/shit at the gym.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Yeah, I'm not worried about the regimented thing. Should be sort of funny since I think we can wear our ribbon racks in our regiment uniforms so I bet mine will be like twice as large as anyone else's since I'm almost at 10 years time in service.

                Yeah, if you are not 18 years old and just out of your parents house its kinda of a joke, there wasnt even PT in my day and its just gotten softer since.

                >I've been trying to speed myself back up with math starting at the algebra 1 level before I take precalc.

                Try to brush up on your trigonometry and trig functions as its a big part of celestial navigation, also interpolation of figures in tables is pretty important when dealing with tide tables and stuff. With the regiment not going to be such a heavy deal for you will have plenty of more time and energy to concentrate on your studies. Back in my days the old timer teachers - a couple of these guys had been submariners in WWII - did a lot of teaching by just pounding the equation procedures into you, a lot of the larger theory to make sense of spherical trig and celestial nav I had to put in the time to learn on my own - You could pick up Bowditch and starting working on that stuff now. And unless things have changed the Coast Guard exams are all multiple choice, there are a ton of them, but they were in the public domain and you could start studding now.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Any thoughts on Bangor?

                In the 25 years since my graduation all of Maine has grown, developed, and become more dynamic, Bangor is pretty representative of regular - not touristy - good ol Maine. There is some good festivals and events held on their riverfront and they continue to develop an outside concert venue there. After being stuck in Castine for a couple weekends Bangor will do the trick. Ellsworth, a small/medium size town up the coast on the way to Bar Harbor is pretty decent. Blue Hill is nice little village nearby on the next peninsular north - with Deer Isle being the end of that peninsular and one of my favorite destinations as it way less touristy than Acadia National Park. Lots of coastal preservation areas have developed over the years, wherever you are just Goodle hiking trails and there will be someplace nearby you can go for a nature hike.

                Be careful driving on the access road in and out of Castine, a student wrecks and dies on that 15 mile stretch every few years.

                People will probably soon start b***hing that this is a Antarctica thread...........

                Thanks for the information. Been taking a SighSee break the last few months and came back expecting to just read the same coomer/anti-coomer threads so it was good to hear all this.

                Sorry OP for derailing your Antarctica thread but there's probably five people tops on this board who have ever been there so it was bound to be derailed.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Been taking a SighSee break the last few months and came back expecting to just read the same coomer/anti-coomer threads so it was good to hear all this.

                Yeah, I check in every once and a while too, did a bunch of writing here last year on all my North Korea/Iran and my other travels, but kinda feel there is not much left to say. Just back from my first international trip in 5 years to our properties in the Philippians - definitely don't feel like a travel pro any more, things have changed and having a family changes you.

                Best of luck at Maine Maritime!

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Thanks. Take care man.

                https://i.imgur.com/Z4hY4HL.jpg

                Another pic to get things back on track....

                I'll contribute as well to get this back to being an Antarctica thread.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Any thoughts on Bangor?

                In the 25 years since my graduation all of Maine has grown, developed, and become more dynamic, Bangor is pretty representative of regular - not touristy - good ol Maine. There is some good festivals and events held on their riverfront and they continue to develop an outside concert venue there. After being stuck in Castine for a couple weekends Bangor will do the trick. Ellsworth, a small/medium size town up the coast on the way to Bar Harbor is pretty decent. Blue Hill is nice little village nearby on the next peninsular north - with Deer Isle being the end of that peninsular and one of my favorite destinations as it way less touristy than Acadia National Park. Lots of coastal preservation areas have developed over the years, wherever you are just Goodle hiking trails and there will be someplace nearby you can go for a nature hike.

                Be careful driving on the access road in and out of Castine, a student wrecks and dies on that 15 mile stretch every few years.

                People will probably soon start b***hing that this is a Antarctica thread...........

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >The housing situation is proving to be a nightmare around Castine

                Would suck to be in the old dorms, I think they must have expanded some on campus housing, but work hard to try to be a roommate with some guys who are in one of the summer cottages, there are some pretty nice places that would make the experience a ton better if you can score a house. One of my older buddies lived with the light house keeper at Dice's Head Light - killer spot.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Im an oow. Which agency have you used to get there?

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    no

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    three times

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, did one season there working at McMurdo Station.

      Email me back ~~*you*~~

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        I will. I'm being bad. I wanna hear how it all went down with you and ~~*you-know-who*~~.

        Can I just call?

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Try me on messenger, I don't have phone service but I have data. Got a frick load of ~~*work*~~ this week so just shoot me a message and let's try and plan it. Got a lot of hot goss on that front, been curious how you've been libtard.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      what made you keep going back? feel like it would be boring after one season working there since I've heard it doesn't pay shit.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      never come back here

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    maybe

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A friend of my brother just came back from working there for like 5 months. Seemed ok.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    no its just a rumor

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I went to McMurdo station when i was in the military. Weird place.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      > Weird place.
      How so?

      Are you wanting to know about working there, going there, or do you just want to know what the continent is like geographically?

      Experiences that can’t be Googled.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I went down and worked at McMurdo seven years ago. What do you want to know that can't be Googled? Other poster was right that it's just a bunch of burn outs with no real job prospects in the real world and that the women who go down there are turbo prostitutes. Simple as.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          What are the penguins like? How do they feel about humans immigrating to their country? Did you make friends with any?

          Well, the women who go there are prostitutes. It's the same with the military, or anywhere theres more men than women. Women get relentlessly hit on, add to that the chronic boredom alcoholism, a whole mess of weekly parties, and you have a recipe for girls spreading their legs looking to get railed at alarmingly high rates.

          But incels told me that if there are hardly any women no-one will get laid?

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            the women get laid and get their pick of the few chad looking guys that are there.

            • 12 months ago
              Anonymous

              more like the chads get their pick of any 7s they please and the women come out with a sewer drain of cum between their legs when they head north.

              t. Raw dogged a few gals when I did three summer seasons there. Haven't been back since '22 though

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's true. There was like maybe one 8 when i was there in 2021-22. After the first couple of months 5s and 6s start looking like 9's tho

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                When I was in the military we called this desert princess syndrome.

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, I was used to it from deploying previously. Doesn't make you immune to the powers of the pussy.

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                I like booze more than pussy. That’s just me though.

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                Well, the amount of alcohol there is equal to how many hairy bush loose "free spirit" women so you can have both.

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                That happens. After a few days without cooming in India the local girls started looking doable.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I worked at mcmurdo station for a 6 month contract.

    It was boring, like living on a military FOB, which I have also done.

    You aren't allowed to walk around off the job site. Especially not on the pyram-I mean the hill.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      > Especially not on the pyram-I mean the hill.
      Pray, do tell.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        To elaborate, its a self contained very small town with everything you need close by due to the temperature and weather.

        Everyone has their job and is pretty focused on it and autistic about it since they have no replacement. That being said, its a slow paced environment where safety is obsessively followed and PMI and checks are carried out constantly on everything.

        Recreation is mostly gym, video games (bad internet so forget multiplayer or streaming at least when I was there), pick up sports games, reading, homebody activities. Some female started a knitting circle and her beta orbiters did that for a couple months before they finally figured out she wasn't going to have sex with them for it.

        The people who worked outside the boundary or did research were under NDA to not discuss anything. Even asking was enough to get you reported and removed. Sometimes military would come through and bunch for a few nights, then frick off somewhere back on their plane and leave.

        The geometrically suspicious hill in the picture. We warn new arrivals about it as a joke.
        >if you wake up in the middle of the night and feel an urge to walk to the pyramid, don't do it.
        >sometimes the pyramid glows, go out around 2am and take a look
        etc.
        But seriously, nobody is allowed up on it under threat of immediate termination and investigation (to see if they took photos or samples).

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          to be clear, you aren't allowed to photograph or take samples of ANY part of anything off the base without approval, and almost everybody is under various types of NDA's and clauses for their contracts that are easy enough to follow as long as you just don't talk about anything besides banal activities

          technically speaking, as long as you are on mcmurdo, your phone can be seized and searched (legally) any time authorities want, realistically speaking I've never heard of it happening

          the only time people leave base suddenly were due to sexual harassment, injury/illness, or family emergency

          suddenly is a bit of an exaggeration though, there can be months long stretches where the location might be unreachable except by airlift

          It sounds like being stationed in Bahrain but somehow even worse lmao

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Lol wut. I worked there for a summer season a few years back. The scientists who work outside the boundary are most certainly not under a NDA. They do fricking lectures WEEKLY about the shit they do. My friend works for LDB (long distance balloons) and he talks to me about it all the time. The military that comes through? Are you thinking the C17 crews on the odd moment they need a repair and have to bed down in the transient lodging for a couple days? Because otherwise the military there are the NY Air Guard for like three months and a few active duty medical personnel (a couple flight surgeons and a few enlisted support staff).

          >But seriously, nobody is allowed up on it under threat of immediate termination and investigation (to see if they took photos or samples).
          Obvious b8 that I can't believe I'm falling for. That's called Ob Hill. There is a trail you can hike up to the top in like thirty minutes. Probably 50-100 people climb it DAILY. It's not off limits, you can even youtube and find unedited videos of people climbing it with their GoPro you moronic homosexual.

          OP,

          moronic schizo take. People take photos of everything and everything down there and throw them on their instagrams, even a couple homosexuals used their bullshit stewie jobs to boost their TikToks the last few seasons.

          Phones have most likely never been "seized" and you live in a state of paranoia.

          [...]
          Uhh Idk best way to sum it up is it's essentially neverland for wayward skill-less 30 year something year olds. The contractors who go down year after year have all sorts of levels of aspbergers and have never held a real job on the outside. The skilled trades who go down to support are usually only doing one, two, or three seasons because they realize the wages they make there are half of what they can make back in the states. Those who continue to go back year after year who actually have a skill tend to be fricking awful at their jobs, hence why they have to keep going back because they can't perform them in the real world... Whereas on the ice they can be dog shit (electricians, carpenters, etc) because nothing is up to code at all (I'd say the exception are the boiler guys and MAYBE the hvac people). I am pretty sure I only met one actual scientist when I was there, and she worked at the Kiwi base over the hill.

          A lot of people are chronic alcoholics down there as well, or develop chronic alcoholism since there really isn't much to do besides drink. There is a gym, but the season I went there were really only eight or so other regular gym goers who utilized it besides the NYANG homosexuals.

          Oh yeah, the contractors and the NYANG have a huge rivalry and most don't get along with them at all. Every year there's at least one or two fights that break out. I am prior military and the NYANG are the quintessential boot homosexuals everyone always hated. They're 98% maintainers and air crew and act like they're hot shit, but in reality just watch too much Goggins and Jocko and have never had a real deployment in their lives.

          >Cont.
          Also, the ratio of women to men is something like 75% men to 25% women. I always thought dudes were desperate when it comes to women on military deployments, for some reason Antarctica is next level. Something about that place makes men simp to new levels, and really allow any lack of female attention to ruin them. I knew at least four girls there who had a spouse back home when they left and cheated within a month. One chick seemed innocent, but was getting railed out by one guy, he left within a week, she started getting railed by a different dude the next week until he left two months later, they planned on getting a place together, then he left and within a month and right before she left ended up banging some other guy (I think they're still together, but it's just a matter of time). It seems to be fairly common than women who go there have at least 2 or 3 partners in a 4 of 5 month season. Knew a few girls there whose count by the end of their season was upwards of 8.

          What else... There's a genuine sense of ineptitude by everyone in leadership. Most support jobs are made up of burnouts who never had jobs on the outside besides maybe seasonal work in national parks or something. Then after year and year they end up going down thinking they have any sort of experience in their fields, but are completely delusional.

          Geographically, it is a fricking beautiful place. Sort of feels like a level in Destiny or some video game. Idk, I stopped gaming years ago. Feels like an alien planet.

          Idk what else you really want to know. People flush condoms despite signs being everywhere saying not to flush them, which causes problems in the waste water treatment plant. Goes to show how selfish everyone is there for their nut. You're not supposed to get close to wildlife but every thot and wannabe influencer tries to get as close as possible to take pictures. The birds there feast on old trash (which is also against the Antarctic treaty).

          is pretty much spot on with a lot of things. Some dude wrote a book called Big Dead Place a few years back that you can buy on Amazon or maybe find a pdf of. He got blacklisted by USAP because of it, I've never read it but it has a reputation among people who have gone and worked there.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Cont.
            Also, the ratio of women to men is something like 75% men to 25% women. I always thought dudes were desperate when it comes to women on military deployments, for some reason Antarctica is next level. Something about that place makes men simp to new levels, and really allow any lack of female attention to ruin them. I knew at least four girls there who had a spouse back home when they left and cheated within a month. One chick seemed innocent, but was getting railed out by one guy, he left within a week, she started getting railed by a different dude the next week until he left two months later, they planned on getting a place together, then he left and within a month and right before she left ended up banging some other guy (I think they're still together, but it's just a matter of time). It seems to be fairly common than women who go there have at least 2 or 3 partners in a 4 of 5 month season. Knew a few girls there whose count by the end of their season was upwards of 8.

            What else... There's a genuine sense of ineptitude by everyone in leadership. Most support jobs are made up of burnouts who never had jobs on the outside besides maybe seasonal work in national parks or something. Then after year and year they end up going down thinking they have any sort of experience in their fields, but are completely delusional.

            Geographically, it is a fricking beautiful place. Sort of feels like a level in Destiny or some video game. Idk, I stopped gaming years ago. Feels like an alien planet.

            Idk what else you really want to know. People flush condoms despite signs being everywhere saying not to flush them, which causes problems in the waste water treatment plant. Goes to show how selfish everyone is there for their nut. You're not supposed to get close to wildlife but every thot and wannabe influencer tries to get as close as possible to take pictures. The birds there feast on old trash (which is also against the Antarctic treaty).

            moronic schizo take. People take photos of everything and everything down there and throw them on their instagrams, even a couple homosexuals used their bullshit stewie jobs to boost their TikToks the last few seasons.

            Phones have most likely never been "seized" and you live in a state of paranoia.

            [...]
            Uhh Idk best way to sum it up is it's essentially neverland for wayward skill-less 30 year something year olds. The contractors who go down year after year have all sorts of levels of aspbergers and have never held a real job on the outside. The skilled trades who go down to support are usually only doing one, two, or three seasons because they realize the wages they make there are half of what they can make back in the states. Those who continue to go back year after year who actually have a skill tend to be fricking awful at their jobs, hence why they have to keep going back because they can't perform them in the real world... Whereas on the ice they can be dog shit (electricians, carpenters, etc) because nothing is up to code at all (I'd say the exception are the boiler guys and MAYBE the hvac people). I am pretty sure I only met one actual scientist when I was there, and she worked at the Kiwi base over the hill.

            A lot of people are chronic alcoholics down there as well, or develop chronic alcoholism since there really isn't much to do besides drink. There is a gym, but the season I went there were really only eight or so other regular gym goers who utilized it besides the NYANG homosexuals.

            Oh yeah, the contractors and the NYANG have a huge rivalry and most don't get along with them at all. Every year there's at least one or two fights that break out. I am prior military and the NYANG are the quintessential boot homosexuals everyone always hated. They're 98% maintainers and air crew and act like they're hot shit, but in reality just watch too much Goggins and Jocko and have never had a real deployment in their lives.

            Glowie here with damage control. He doesn't want you to know about the pyramid.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I'm the second poster, that is two different people you nut job

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          to be clear, you aren't allowed to photograph or take samples of ANY part of anything off the base without approval, and almost everybody is under various types of NDA's and clauses for their contracts that are easy enough to follow as long as you just don't talk about anything besides banal activities

          technically speaking, as long as you are on mcmurdo, your phone can be seized and searched (legally) any time authorities want, realistically speaking I've never heard of it happening

          the only time people leave base suddenly were due to sexual harassment, injury/illness, or family emergency

          suddenly is a bit of an exaggeration though, there can be months long stretches where the location might be unreachable except by airlift

          Thanks.

          moronic schizo take. People take photos of everything and everything down there and throw them on their instagrams, even a couple homosexuals used their bullshit stewie jobs to boost their TikToks the last few seasons.

          Phones have most likely never been "seized" and you live in a state of paranoia.

          [...]
          Uhh Idk best way to sum it up is it's essentially neverland for wayward skill-less 30 year something year olds. The contractors who go down year after year have all sorts of levels of aspbergers and have never held a real job on the outside. The skilled trades who go down to support are usually only doing one, two, or three seasons because they realize the wages they make there are half of what they can make back in the states. Those who continue to go back year after year who actually have a skill tend to be fricking awful at their jobs, hence why they have to keep going back because they can't perform them in the real world... Whereas on the ice they can be dog shit (electricians, carpenters, etc) because nothing is up to code at all (I'd say the exception are the boiler guys and MAYBE the hvac people). I am pretty sure I only met one actual scientist when I was there, and she worked at the Kiwi base over the hill.

          A lot of people are chronic alcoholics down there as well, or develop chronic alcoholism since there really isn't much to do besides drink. There is a gym, but the season I went there were really only eight or so other regular gym goers who utilized it besides the NYANG homosexuals.

          Oh yeah, the contractors and the NYANG have a huge rivalry and most don't get along with them at all. Every year there's at least one or two fights that break out. I am prior military and the NYANG are the quintessential boot homosexuals everyone always hated. They're 98% maintainers and air crew and act like they're hot shit, but in reality just watch too much Goggins and Jocko and have never had a real deployment in their lives.

          You said schizo, so I don’t believe you.

          [...]
          Thanks for the information. Been taking a SighSee break the last few months and came back expecting to just read the same coomer/anti-coomer threads so it was good to hear all this.

          Sorry OP for derailing your Antarctica thread but there's probably five people tops on this board who have ever been there so it was bound to be derailed.

          Don’t worry about it.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Absolutely fricking not remotely true.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    to be clear, you aren't allowed to photograph or take samples of ANY part of anything off the base without approval, and almost everybody is under various types of NDA's and clauses for their contracts that are easy enough to follow as long as you just don't talk about anything besides banal activities

    technically speaking, as long as you are on mcmurdo, your phone can be seized and searched (legally) any time authorities want, realistically speaking I've never heard of it happening

    the only time people leave base suddenly were due to sexual harassment, injury/illness, or family emergency

    suddenly is a bit of an exaggeration though, there can be months long stretches where the location might be unreachable except by airlift

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      moronic schizo take. People take photos of everything and everything down there and throw them on their instagrams, even a couple homosexuals used their bullshit stewie jobs to boost their TikToks the last few seasons.

      Phones have most likely never been "seized" and you live in a state of paranoia.

      > Weird place.
      How so?
      [...]
      Experiences that can’t be Googled.

      Uhh Idk best way to sum it up is it's essentially neverland for wayward skill-less 30 year something year olds. The contractors who go down year after year have all sorts of levels of aspbergers and have never held a real job on the outside. The skilled trades who go down to support are usually only doing one, two, or three seasons because they realize the wages they make there are half of what they can make back in the states. Those who continue to go back year after year who actually have a skill tend to be fricking awful at their jobs, hence why they have to keep going back because they can't perform them in the real world... Whereas on the ice they can be dog shit (electricians, carpenters, etc) because nothing is up to code at all (I'd say the exception are the boiler guys and MAYBE the hvac people). I am pretty sure I only met one actual scientist when I was there, and she worked at the Kiwi base over the hill.

      A lot of people are chronic alcoholics down there as well, or develop chronic alcoholism since there really isn't much to do besides drink. There is a gym, but the season I went there were really only eight or so other regular gym goers who utilized it besides the NYANG homosexuals.

      Oh yeah, the contractors and the NYANG have a huge rivalry and most don't get along with them at all. Every year there's at least one or two fights that break out. I am prior military and the NYANG are the quintessential boot homosexuals everyone always hated. They're 98% maintainers and air crew and act like they're hot shit, but in reality just watch too much Goggins and Jocko and have never had a real deployment in their lives.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Cont.
        Also, the ratio of women to men is something like 75% men to 25% women. I always thought dudes were desperate when it comes to women on military deployments, for some reason Antarctica is next level. Something about that place makes men simp to new levels, and really allow any lack of female attention to ruin them. I knew at least four girls there who had a spouse back home when they left and cheated within a month. One chick seemed innocent, but was getting railed out by one guy, he left within a week, she started getting railed by a different dude the next week until he left two months later, they planned on getting a place together, then he left and within a month and right before she left ended up banging some other guy (I think they're still together, but it's just a matter of time). It seems to be fairly common than women who go there have at least 2 or 3 partners in a 4 of 5 month season. Knew a few girls there whose count by the end of their season was upwards of 8.

        What else... There's a genuine sense of ineptitude by everyone in leadership. Most support jobs are made up of burnouts who never had jobs on the outside besides maybe seasonal work in national parks or something. Then after year and year they end up going down thinking they have any sort of experience in their fields, but are completely delusional.

        Geographically, it is a fricking beautiful place. Sort of feels like a level in Destiny or some video game. Idk, I stopped gaming years ago. Feels like an alien planet.

        Idk what else you really want to know. People flush condoms despite signs being everywhere saying not to flush them, which causes problems in the waste water treatment plant. Goes to show how selfish everyone is there for their nut. You're not supposed to get close to wildlife but every thot and wannabe influencer tries to get as close as possible to take pictures. The birds there feast on old trash (which is also against the Antarctic treaty).

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Antarctica is an ice wall and nobody is allowed to see what is beyond it. Flat earth is real.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Another pic to get things back on track....

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's on the expensive side of travel for sure. Either taking on antartica yacht/cruise expedition or staying in expensive resort like white desert

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If i go to argentina can i get a boat to antarctica and actually walk around and shit or will it just be some gay cruise? How do i get there as a tourist?

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have a travel YouTube and places I should go that people say are off limits in conspiracies like Antarctica? I know people say Nazis live under mount Odin in Canada. Want to go there eventually too

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Kek you can easily tell who actually went and who are the larpers

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No one here seems to be larping besides the conspiracy schizoids

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No, but I heard the nightlife there is amazing, it's like the night never ends!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      My motto when I was there was it's always day drinking when the sun never sets.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hows da coomin?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Well, the women who go there are prostitutes. It's the same with the military, or anywhere theres more men than women. Women get relentlessly hit on, add to that the chronic boredom alcoholism, a whole mess of weekly parties, and you have a recipe for girls spreading their legs looking to get railed at alarmingly high rates.

  18. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I grew up with a guy who was stationed at McMurdo.
    He said it was really cold!

  19. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Uttp logo

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      What’s a Uttp?

  20. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    How can I get a job there? I'd like to go at some point but I don't want to spend thousands of dollars to be on a ship with chinks and boomers only to get off and see a few penguins and ice.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >How can I get a job there?
      A lot of research on Google

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, I don't want lessons from some fat Tumblr dykes blog post thanks.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      If you're a tradie it's easy to get a job there because the pay is shit compared to wages stateside. They'll take any homosexual moron to work in the galley as a steward, or work in supply, or work in air transportation. Just say you worked at an airport and have forklift experience then they'll hire you. If all else fails say you're a minority or lgbtq and they'll start frothing at the mouth to bring you down.

  21. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    So the only way to get there is from work? I would've guessed at least a country like Argentina would have tours to their part of the continent

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      I thought Argentina did have arctic cruises, maybe I imagined it but I swore I read it a while back.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      I thought Argentina did have arctic cruises, maybe I imagined it but I swore I read it a while back.

      They do. They cost an arm and a leg just to step on the continent and not see much besides icebergs on the way and the shore you spend a day on though. All the while you'll get the pleasure of being on a small ship with a hundred other wealthy boomers.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's expensive but you do get to do more than just "step on the continent" especially if you shell out extra for the helicopter tours or include the Falklands and South Georgia on your trip.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      There are arctic crooses. My mom’s friend went on one.

  22. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Let’s just say there are many ‘McMurdo babies’ roughly 9 months after deployment.

  23. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    USAP is a bureaucratic nightmare. Everything is layered under multiple layers of bullshit. It will make anyone fricking insane, and realistically that's the only reason someone would do it twice. There are basically four outcomes for returners:
    1. Escape to field camps or traverse, which is much less stifling and much more fulfilling. Good luck, it takes years and years (and even then if they don't like you then you'll never join the club).
    2. You get a good job. Usually involves a better contractor, there are very few of these jobs and that part about cliqueiness remains a factor. You'll also need qualifications for this, and the very scarce jobs that don't require are almost impossible to get.
    3. You ascend into "leadership", this is typically what the worst people with the most odious personalities do.
    4. A state of arrested development doing menial labor for low wage so you can party like you never stopped being an undergraduate. This is by far the most common outcome for returners.

    It is a lot of fun. The people are great. You get to say you work there, which has social currency akin to that of being an astronaut. Ultimately you burn out, and around the four-year mark people tend to move on. Though there are some long-haulers though, and the real lifers who do decades down there are truly beyond help.

  24. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yeh it’s pretty much a frick fest on ice where even spergs are getting some

  25. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm thinking of dropping 60k by going on a ski expedition near Union glacier camp

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      How does that work? Heli skiing down there I'm assuming? Don't expect powder, it's the world's largest desert.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Flight from Usuhaia, camp at the glacier, and some plans include a motoski, in others you have to walk all the way up.

        Of course no one expects perfect ski conditions, that's not the point on doing it

        Other expedition I'm eyeing it is climb Mt Winston, but it's for even more shekels and I do t even know if I'm fit enough to do it

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Doesn't sound bad, even if the skiing sounds like a meme.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            There are arctic crooses. My mom’s friend went on one.

            Yeah the skiing is a meme but it's the best bang for your buck when it comes to Antarctica. You can group all tourism options in 3:

            1- Cruise ships. Youre paying twice the price of a regular cruise for a boat with none of the amenities. Yes, this is the cheaper option but it's a complete rip off. You won't set foot on the continent.

            2- Animal sightseeing: similar cruises but with the added component of seeing some penguins or shit. This is an excuse to at least set foot on the continent. The issue here is that the tour operators will settle to take you to the Antarctic Peninsula which is the warmest and most terraformed area. Under the disguise of research stations and the silly prestige of having a foothold there many countries have a base already (freaking Peru has a base, wtf) the most invested countries have already small towns there. Imagine paying a small fortune to go to the unknown and being taken to an actual town and see animals a few mins away from civilization

            3- the hardcore shit: yes, these are the most expensive options but these are the real deal. You can know hire a tour to My Winston, Mt Erebus or even to trek to the freaking South Pole. The issue here is that beyond the exorbitant price, most of these tours are very taxing physically. I want to go there to have fun, not to nearly kill myself on a middle life crisis. This is where the ski options stands out. It's the real deal as you get to sleep in the inner continent, it's not that physically exhausting, it's fun, even if it's not the best ski, and is still cheaper than the extreme options. Also, this is the option at the highest risk of being cancelled after the Greta crowd goes for it for environmental reason. You can always justify going to see muh animals or claiming you're a 19 century explorer or being the first half autistic 20% gypsy to reach the south pole with synesthesia. Im midclass but I'm already saving money to hopefully go while it's still a thing

            • 12 months ago
              Anonymous

              I went through the wiki rabbit hole of all the Antarctic bases. Lmao why do Bulgaria, Ecuador and Pakistan have bases lol.

              Also, the Chileans literally have a hotel open to civilians in Las Estrellas (one of only 2 civilian bases, the other one is an argie one) so you could technically stay there indefinitely, but I guess it wouldn't count as it's on a (quite crowded) island off the peninsula

            • 12 months ago
              Anonymous

              I heard in a podcast that the difference between cruises landing or not on Antarctica is based on size. Only boats with less than 1000 passengers can do it, of course the largest ones are the cheapest options but it's a ripoff as you say

              • 12 months ago
                Anonymous

                The rules for cruises stipulate that only 100 people are allowed off the boat at any time so it's not that boats carrying 1,000 passengers can't let people off it's that it's not logistically feasible so they tend not to. Expedition cruise companies tend to own or build boats that carry around 200 passengers because by the time half of the passengers are done doing their land excursions the other half can head out to do it.

  26. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I tried but ended up near the north pole on an icebreaker.

  27. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Any other Red Noses?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is for soldiers only, right?

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        >This is for soldiers only, right?

        No, not at all, for anyone crew or passenger on a ship that crosses the circle where the ceremony is performed by those aboard who already hold the certificate. Just like the Equator Shell-back ceremony or the Arctic circle Blue Nose.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          About 35 years ago, a friend of mine was awarded the order of the Blue Nose on a nuke sub. Kissing the belly of the senior NCO was memorable, but the goop they had smear there bodies was so bad smelling, they had to surface to reduce the smell to tolerable level. Also, they turned off the hot water for the showers which made even harder to remove the goop.
          Broke the ice at the North Pole.
          Drop off a message in a bottle for me, though I doubt the bottle ever made it to the open ocean.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            >but the goop they had smear there bodies was so bad smelling

            Yeah, on my ship they used krill from the sea strainers....

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