What’s it like to go on a cruise

Deception Island has fire and ice in its history, and in the present day. Mountainous, half covered by glaciers and mostly covered with black volcanic ash, Deception is an active volcano.

Palmer Station, on the Western Antarctic Peninsula is the smallest of three research stations the U. S. maintains in Antarctica.

It’s a fact of life on ships, but nobody talks about it much. Why should they? It’s not a pretty picture. Yep, I’m talking about the green scourge, Neptune’s revenge—seasickness.

On February 2, Gary Comer, Bob James, and Alvin pilot BLee Williams journeyed to the bottom of the sea. Gary wrote of this amazing experience to the members of the The Paul Revere Science Club at Paul Revere Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.

So you want to dive to the bottom of the ocean in a submarine? Better bring your wool hat, because it is cold down there.