We have a new website that will now be the main home for the UBC POLAR C LUB.
We will keep this blog site as an archive of past events.
We also have a new partner – The UBC GREEN COLLEGE – and we are helping them to run an Arctic-Wise seminar series. We need your help to organize events and/or simply attend them.
Please go to the new website for more details.
HED signing out.
Best regards,
Helen Drost
The £200m investment in an icebreaker was announced by Chancellor George Osborne in a speech in Cambridge.
The ship is likely to be 130m long and sport a helipad, cranes, onboard labs, and have the ability to deploy subs and other ocean survey and sampling gear.
It should be ready to enter service in 2019, and will support scientists in both the Antarctic and the Arctic.
The strength of its hull will allow it to push deeper into pack ice than any previous British research vessel.
read more …. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27129690
IMO is developing a draft mandatory International Code of safety for ships operating in polar waters (Polar Code), to cover the full range of design, construction, equipment, operational, training, search and rescue and environmental protection matters relevant to ships operating in the inhospitable waters surrounding the two poles. The work is being coordinated by the Subcommittee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC) – formerly the Subcommittee on Ship Design and Equipment (DE). MarineLink
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