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The second half of the ANSMET Systematic Search Team is still here in McMurdo for at least another day or two.  The Team and well-wishers had gather in the departure building at the time designated to leave for the airplane.  The Team was even fully suited up, carry-on bags in hand. We all thought – “Wow, this deployment might even come off without a hitch!”  Wrong!  Just as the time of planned departure arrived and our confidence level soared, we were informed that a mechanical problem on one of the airplanes was causing a ripple effect through the entire schedule.  This put our Team as a back-up and then as the day passed, it turned into a cancelation.  So, as seasoned Antarctic explorers like to say “you must take it as it comes”.  The new people are learning about the life in Antarctic, and most of us are working on our LPSC abstracts.  Patience is part of the equipment here!

 

Joe Boyce, Dec. 11, 2012, McMurdo

 

 

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