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Lord have mercy on us

For five months  now, I have shared with different teams here in Antarctica the daily bread, the military discipline, and strange prayer that each afternoon the watch officer recites from the Hesperides’ bridge: “Lord, creator of storms and calmness, have mercy…

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Four Months

Day 121, Sunday, March 5th, 2017, Livingston Island. The Hesperides research vessel spends days patrolling large areas of Livingston Island and Deception Island. So the navy Hydrographers on board can chart, probe after probe, on a map the bottom of the sea. An underwater world that it is still Terra Incognita. 

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