Antarctica By Sail: The Scientific Expedition That Defied the Odds — FULL DOCUMENTARY

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: In 2017, I met a small group of scientists who were preparing an expedition of an unusual kind to the most southern tip of the world, Antarctica. Their mission was funded by the Belgian government to commemorate the 120th anniversary since the first scientific expedition to the frozen continent. Defying the mockery of the science community, their journey from the most southern tip of Argentina across the turbulent Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula would be carried out aboard a 23-meter sailboat. Small enough to reach entirely undocumented parts of the polar shore, the ship could just about host the scientists, three crew and their gear. So after two years of training my new friends with the camera, I said goodbye to them and my precious equipment at the pier. The toughest steps are not those taken out of necessity, but those we choose to take in the name of change. This is a story of a team of rebel scientists operating against the convenience of airplanes and icebreakers, against their community's trust, and against the odds of the sea. [00:01:40] Speaker ?: So, let's go. [00:02:10] Speaker 2: So, Henrique, I don't know if you heard, but the worst part should be tonight. [00:02:40] Speaker ?: So, let's go. So, let's go. So, let's go. [00:04:10] Speaker 3: So, let's go. The first one is the agility of the ship. So, it's much smaller. It can access areas which are inaccessible to other larger vessels. We can go in shallower areas. And the big advantage we have also, apart from agility, is the fact that we have complete control over the decisions about what we're doing with the ship. So, the ship is ours and we decide what we do with our time. [00:05:04] Speaker 4: So, our main objective is our main objective is to collect baseline data. So, our main objective is to collect baseline data. Baseline data is really important because in order to measure any change, we're collecting this kind of baseline data for the next generation of scientists to measure the impacts of global change and global warming on the area. So, we're going to have a group of human science. We're going to have a group of human scientists from four different European countries, from Italy, from France, Belgium, and Germany. And each of us had a different area of expertise. First of all, there was myself and Henrik. We were mainly responsible for fishing. And then there was Henri. Henri looked at birds, but also at crustaceans. And then we had a diving team. The diving team consisted of three people and they were investigating all the flora and fauna below the water. And finally, there was a team we called the beach boys, consisting of Kami and Kata, and they were doing research along the shore. So, it's kind of a holistic research approach to an area of the Antarctic Peninsula that, to date, is almost completely undocumented. [00:06:47] Speaker 5: So, for our campaign, we are going to dive in many locations where nobody ever dove before. [00:07:08] Speaker 4: Ready to get into the water? Ready? [00:07:10] Speaker 5: I'm getting used to the temperature now. It's going to be different because we don't have the whole facilities of a base, where I was used to go. Or a big ship like the Polarstern or other research vessels. So, I think it will be the most challenging trip I ever did. In Antarctic, you always dive attached with a lifeline, because for instance, if that iceberg would start to move towards us, then we have to abort the dive and then we have to have a way to tell the diver to come up. I study soft sediment and the organisms that live within the sediment. As the soil on Earth, the sediments in the ocean, they have a lot of exchange with the water column. So, they are very important in the energy cycling or the cycling of the matter. The Antarctic is very big, so it's bigger than Russia, you know, so it's a very big piece of a continent. It's a very important ecosystem in the whole system of the planet. It produces a lot of deep waters that are full of oxygen and full of nutrients that actually are spread around other parts of the globe. And it's very important in the whole circulation, let's say, blood system of the Earth. This is my fifth time to Antarctica. I will never forget the first time I saw a penguin colony. I was helping the other penguin guys at the time and we were going to get some samples for us as well. And we were going up, getting to the top, and then a whole plane opened and it was full of penguins, full. And I cried, like it was like a feeling I couldn't hold because it was really impressive to be outnumbered so much by nature. [00:09:21] Speaker ?: And I cried, like it was so much by nature. 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What just happened? Oh, it's just ice. That break. But like this morning, it's happening like every, I don't know, 10 minutes or something. And this morning, we were so close to one of these stuff. So I won't say we were scared, but yeah, we paid attention. So that one was supposed to be more stable. So let's trust it, but yeah. Well done, Camille. Little stress, huh? Little stress or you know not? [00:12:59] Speaker 4: You trust Camille in these things? [00:13:01] Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely. He's our little MacGyver, huh? Yeah, he managed, perfect. [00:13:08] Speaker 2: We're done, Camille. [00:13:38] Speaker ?: You wanted to see the Leopard seal? [00:13:40] Speaker 6: I think it's done now, indeed. Oh, so impressive. [00:14:02] Speaker 5: We normally have a very simple rule, which is if you see the Leopard seal nearby, the place where you're going diving, you don't dive. If your diver is diving and you see a Leopard seal in vicinity, you'll recall back your diver. And if you're diving and you see a Leopard seal next to you, you just keep on looking at the Leopard seal. You gather your things and you just go up. You abort the dive. Not because they're so extremely dangerous, but because they are very unpredictable. They're big, they can be four or five meters. They have no hands to touch you, so they might be chewing you a little bit to understand what you're doing, who you are, what is that. [00:14:38] Speaker 7: I was killed this morning by a Leopard seal. [00:14:44] Speaker 4: It's an interesting feeling to realize like there's a lot of wildlife just out there. Every day you see something that's a lot stronger than you and just high up the food chain. That's an interesting feeling. You realize you're not always as in control as you might think you are. How do you feel, Camille? [00:15:26] Speaker 8: Oh, sorry, what do you want? [00:15:28] Speaker 6: How do you feel? [00:15:29] Speaker 8: How do I feel? Pretty great. Just saw a Leopard seal eating a penguin. It was quite impressive. That's all for today, Franz. Tell me some more. Some more about. Sorry. I'll just... Some more about. What do you want to know? [00:15:49] Speaker 4: I don't know. [00:15:50] Speaker 8: Sheep life. Sheep life? That's a very good question today. Thank you. How about the food? The food. The food is great. Sometimes the pasta is a bit overcooked, but don't tell her. No, food is one of the most important things, I think, I think on the ship because it bonds people together. And when you have good food, you have good mood usually. And so far, it's been really great. And we're all eating quite a lot. And it's, yeah, pretty enjoyable. [00:16:30] Speaker ?: All right. [00:16:31] Speaker 7: So now I will open the trap. But we can see that many of the amphipods are still trying to get in, so they are attached to the mesh. So like the krill that has a central position in the food web in the Antarctic. Amphipods are very important because they occupy many different niches in the ecosystem. So these ones are important for degrading all the dead matters. This is the head of a fish that we put in. And it's almost perfectly cleaned to the inside. And they have an extremely fine sense of detection for any carcass. So they can detect dead animals from hundreds, maybe hundreds of meters, maybe kilometers away and just swarming. I mean, I mean. Having to sacrifice living creature for science is never easy, no matter how big or small they are. I've been studying amphipods since the year 2000, and still we find new species unknown to science and to mankind. We have to know about their existence, where they live, what they eat, how they behave. Without this knowledge, there is no way to measure our impact on this planet. The more we know, the better we can protect. The more we know, the better we can protect. [00:19:10] Speaker 9: Can you say anything Katie? I don't know really, I'm just sort of feeding everybody. I really seem super happy and hungry and busy and I can't keep up with the cake and the dessert demands. We're having Bruno's favourite dessert this evening, lemon tart. I've got to make two, one with meringue and one with not because otherwise skipper Ben's going to be a bit upset not having a meringue. I've already had quite a few visitors popping in heads looking to see what's going on. As you can see there's a plethora of food. [00:20:06] Speaker 10: What are you reading Bruno? [00:20:11] Speaker 3: 15 months in the Antarctic. So this is the journal of the original Berger expedition by Adrien de Gelas. I've had this book for a long time and I kept it to read it here. So I'm discovering it. It's really good. [00:20:32] Speaker 4: How do you feel? Do you feel connected? [00:20:35] Speaker 11: Well actually more and more when I read it, yeah. [00:20:49] Speaker 3: I think there's not a lot of people internationally or even in Belgium who are aware that the first purely scientific expedition to Antarctica was actually led by Belgium. [00:20:58] Speaker 7: Well the Belgica expedition was led by Adrien de Gelas 120 years ago. They got trapped actually in the ice and had to overwinter in the area and they drifted quite a long way along the Antarctic Peninsula until finally spring arrived and they got released. It was a very successful scientific expedition actually. They had very good scientists on board and they collected a huge amount of samples. There is a huge amount of literature that has been published afterwards on this mission. It must have been an incredible time for these people because technology was not there. They were pretty much the first one to discover this area. So there was so much more unknown that we have at this moment. When you look at the composition of the Belgica team, they were all selected very carefully and very interestingly. And it's not surprising that Amundsen was there too. He was only 24 at the time and a few years later he was the first to reach the South Pole. Taking the same route along the Gela Strait as they took in 1898 made me think a lot about them while being on this mission. How did they feel when they realized they would spend the winter there? And how did they pass their time? [00:22:42] Speaker 11: The specificity here apparently compared to Melchior is that there is going to be tourists arriving at 5 a.m. Can we ask them to be silent? Not to wake us up? They are mainly going to bother the intertidal guys, I suppose, because they are going to go on the beach, do a few bumslides and then come back to the beach. [00:23:04] Speaker 12: So it's a kind of a different mindset. [00:23:15] Speaker 13: Please, or a quadrat, please, no! If you're busy... [00:23:20] Speaker 2: If a tourist step on your quadrat, do you sample it? Of course, always. [00:23:25] Speaker 6: Do we know the time of the tourists or not yet? The tourist time. [00:23:36] Speaker ?: Maybe the time. We wake up, no one is there, and then suddenly this tour operator voice gives a rundown for the day and is like, "Good morning!" [00:23:49] Speaker 4: And it's really... and you just hear it over the water and you feel a bit like, "Oh, did we just sign up for Disneyland?" or like, "What is this?" [00:24:10] Speaker 7: I was surprised actually to see that all the tourism activity was very well organized and there's a lot of rules that they have to follow and they have a lot of guides that go first on the colony. They set up a path with little markers and people who go there are only allowed to follow this little path. [00:24:37] Speaker 4: On one side you have the penguins just like walking and like doing their thing and then on the other side you have the humans also just like walking and taking photos. And it's really, it's a funny picture because I mean it does feel a bit like a zoo just the other way around. [00:24:59] Speaker 3: I have sort of mixed feelings about this. There's a lot of good communication between the tour operators and the scientific communities. But still the amount of people that came means there's an impact, it's impossible to avoid. [00:25:15] Speaker 7: Microplastics even from our clothes fly away, go in the water, I mean it gets into the environment and the more people you have there the more impact you will have. [00:25:29] Speaker 3: There were 70,000 tourists going to Antarctica this year, which is quite a lot, yeah. There were 70,000 tourists going to Antarctica this year, which is quite a lot, yeah. 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In all other fish, except for fish in Antarctica, they will be red. Because of the hemoglobin that binds to oxygen. These fish, they don't need hemoglobin. The water here is so cold, so oxygenated, that they get enough oxygen just through their skin. So this is the heart of a nice fish. You see it's still pumping. It's pretty big. And also, it's brown, yellowish, not red. Like this one. This is the heart of a red-blooded ice fish. Of a red-blooded Notothinia species. So that has hemoglobin. That's why it's so red. And this one is from the Carnichthyte. Without hemoglobin. That's why it's just yellow, brownish. Now we're gonna cut open the belly. We see right away that this fish was suffering a lot. Well, it may have not felt it, but it has a lot of parasites. All these are nematode worms that are inside or atop of the liver. So these fish are very specially adapted to live in cold habitats. But now, if the water warms a lot, it may be that they are not fit to live under these circumstances. [00:28:19] Speaker 7: What makes the polar region so fragile and so particularly sensitive to climate change is that all of these animals are extremely adapted to this particular environment. The slightest change will shift their comfort zone to a zone where it's not going to be possible for them to survive. So from there, they will have different strategy. Either they can cope with it, which is quite rare usually when you are very much adapted to your environment. Or you can migrate, but then you go somewhere else where other species exist already. So there will be competition or you just die. [00:29:29] Speaker 10: Do you know where are we heading? We're heading to Metchnikov Point. So there's a commemorative plaque there that was set by a Belgian expedition in the 80s. So we're going to check if it's still there, if it's still in good shape and take a few pictures for documentation. [00:29:50] Speaker 5: We went there on request of the Belgian government to actually look at the conditions of a plate, which purpose was to commemorate the ventures of Adrian de Gerlache. [00:30:01] Speaker 6: It's just rocks, rocks, rocks, rocks, ice, rocks, rocks, rocks. Where is a monument around here? So we were all looking with the binoculars, hoping to find it. We said, okay, the penguins are going up there. [00:30:11] Speaker 5: Maybe we can go up the same way because if penguins do it, we can do it. Hmm, not exactly the same. We arrived at the plate, which was in very good conditions, actually. Are you serious? [00:30:45] Speaker 12: I can't. [00:30:46] Speaker 5: But yeah, what eventually we were surprised to find was this abandoned camping site. So we are at, uh, at the commemorative, uh, plate, uh, to, uh, celebrate the Gerlache. [00:31:15] Speaker ?: I don't know what to say, fuck it. [00:31:16] Speaker 14: I don't know what to say, fuck it. I don't know what to say, fuck it. [00:31:18] Speaker ?: I don't know what to say, fuck it. [00:31:19] Speaker 14: I don't know what to say, fuck it. [00:31:20] Speaker ?: I don't know what to say, fuck it. [00:31:21] Speaker 14: I don't know what to say, fuck it. I don't know what to say, fuck it. I don't know what to say, fuck it. I don't know what to say, fuck it. I don't know what to say, fuck it. I don't know what to say, fuck it. I don't know what to say, fuck it. I don't know what to say, fuck it. I don't know what to say, fuck it. I don't know what to say, fuck it. [00:31:31] Speaker 3: There was a lot of plastic, plastic bags, plastic vials, uh, syringes, uh, plastic in many different forms. [00:31:51] Speaker 5: There was a lot of lipsticks, uh, survival, uh, matches. [00:31:56] Speaker 7: A couple of thermometers, like, full of mercury that was still used at the time. And the rubbish is pretty much spread over, uh, maybe a hundred meters square. [00:32:12] Speaker 5: It's very difficult to land there, so nobody could have reported this. These kind of places are not really, uh, visited by anybody unless you go with a purpose. This time the government asked us to go, so we went. [00:32:27] Speaker 13: These are probably remains from a camp from an expedition in the 1980s. In hindsight, I think it appears that this has probably been left behind because they had to abandon their camp during bad weather conditions. They were stationed there for, for two, three years even or so. And then at some point they had to leave and never came back. What does it say? [00:32:56] Speaker ?: It says custard powder. It might be British, huh? Keep the bags, uh, not too full, not too heavy. [00:32:56] Speaker 5: I just thought, ah, it's us. That's what we do everywhere, you know. [00:33:02] Speaker ?: You know? Of course the Antarctic is special and it has to be kept pristine. But somehow, what's the difference from what we do? [00:33:02] Speaker 8: What does it say? What does it say? [00:33:04] Speaker ?: It says custard powder. It says custard powder. [00:33:06] Speaker 8: It might be British, huh? [00:33:07] Speaker 5: I just thought, ah, it's us. That's what we do. Everywhere. You know? Of course the Antarctic is special and it has to be kept pristine, but somehow what's the difference from a beautiful place in Antarctica and any other place on this planet? Everything was as beautiful as Antarctica before. [00:33:37] Speaker 13: Barely anything is untouched from human pollution and exploitation. And Antarctica is no exception. And not only with this example, wherever you put a trawl in the water for scientific purposes, you catch plastic. [00:34:04] Speaker 8: So we cleaned up a little bit, but there's so much. It would take, yeah, a couple of days to clean up that we won't have time to do. But hopefully we can raise a little bit of awareness about who did that because maybe they can come and clean it up. That would be great. [00:34:25] Speaker 12: The only place, well, in Bulls Bay is off the list. The only places here that I know that no one else goes to. I've never even seen anyone at Green Reef. Not another single boat ever. I'm the only one that I know that's ever gone in there. Okay. But there are a lot of boats that go up and down that. There are a lot of boats that go up and down that Neumaya channel. Yeah. I've been travelling to Antarctica since 1997. Yeah, it was my first trip and I've been hooked ever since. It's the place I feel most comfortable in the world. Not where I was born or where I grew up or where I live now, my home now. But it's here is where I just, I feel most comfortable on Earth. For me, it's definitely a highlight of my career, even out of, you know, without question. This voyage is a seed that was planted four or five years ago. I feel like it's a barrow that I've been pushing within the Antarctic science community for a long time. Because I could see this, I had, I could see this vision of exactly this happening and now it is happening. So it's, it's like a dream come true for me. People say to me all the time, you know, once you've seen it, why do you keep going back to Antarctica? Isn't it just all, you know, snow and penguins? And it's like, well, of course it's not. And once you, once you look deeper, once you start to spend time there, months after months after months, you start to see colors change. You start to see the reds, you start to see the copper in the mountains. When you keep putting up with bad weather and being away from family and friends and loved ones, to, to do that, to experience that. [00:37:20] Speaker 15: How are we going? [00:37:44] Speaker 13: Good, good. A bit frustrated though we didn't catch any fish. I've been trying a lot today but, I don't know, fish seem not to be here. Maybe in the gill net we still have that out. We're going to pull it in after dinner, I think. Then we see. Onions. [00:38:06] Speaker 12: Onions? Onions? To the left. [00:38:10] Speaker 8: Thank you. Onions. [00:38:14] Speaker ?: Onions. [00:38:14] Speaker 8: Onions. Onions. [00:38:16] Speaker ?: Onions. Onions. [00:38:18] Speaker 8: That's you! [00:38:20] Speaker 11: My doctor put in his wing work very well. Two minutes. [00:38:26] Speaker 9: You should be dead again! He's anal about his head. Can you not see that he's got like a cue ball shine to the top of it. [00:38:34] Speaker 15: So I can make sure that the boat travels as fast as possible at all times. [00:38:37] Speaker 9: Wait, hang on. Did you do your sideburns as well? And a little "ooh, ooh, ooh" you've got levels! [00:38:42] Speaker 15: I'm not meant to have another one. I can't see what I'm doing in the steam. Knees, eyes, throat. [00:39:00] Speaker 9: Does everyone have everything they require? Water? [00:39:04] Speaker 7: Some red water. [00:39:06] Speaker 9: Some red water? [00:39:08] Speaker 14: I can eat some red water. [00:39:10] Speaker ?: I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. 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I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. [00:43:16] Speaker 16: I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. [00:43:24] Speaker ?: I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. [00:43:52] Speaker 16: Before producing models to predict in the future, we need to produce good models for present. And you can see if the species will die because she has not enough resources to live or if the temperature is too high or too little. [00:44:17] Speaker ?: I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. I can't see what I'm doing in the air. [00:44:48] Speaker 5: I always had the dream to actually go and dive in Antarctica. And I dove. And then I saw this amazing biodiversity. It's fantasy, you know? I think we are waking up to this call and I know that we are waking up. The thing is that you may wake up and still be too sleepy to make it on time to work. Or you may wake up and figure out that you need to jump out of the bed and start running to get on time to work. So that's what I think it's the moment of our species now. We are waking up, but now we need to stand up and start running. Because, yeah, the planet is giving a lot of signs that we need to take care of it if we want to survive the way we are hoping to thrive. So that's what we need to do. [00:45:38] Speaker ?: So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. So that's what we need to do. [00:46:07] Speaker 4: Antarctica is conceived as this very remote place. And in geographical terms, it is remote. It's very challenging, even dangerous, to do research here. But we do need to keep in mind that our actions at home affect what happens here. And eventually, these consequences come back around. [00:47:00] Speaker 6: What are we doing, Bruno? [00:47:02] Speaker 3: Cleaning, getting ready for the drake, backuping everything. [00:47:05] Speaker 2: I've just got it. [00:47:21] Speaker 12: To do, to do. [00:47:23] Speaker 8: Everything's done? No. Boots and jackets, right? [00:47:26] Speaker ?: No. Is there space in the freezer? [00:47:28] Speaker 12: In this one? Just for one of these two. [00:47:30] Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah. [00:47:32] Speaker ?: Yeah. It should fit. [00:47:32] Speaker 8: Yeah. [00:47:33] Speaker 13: It should fit. [00:47:34] Speaker 8: Yeah. Physical samples that we have in our freezer is a little bit under 2,000. [00:47:39] Speaker 13: And much more if you count all the other observations we made on top of those, like observing the birds, whales, all the things we could not actually physically sample. [00:47:46] Speaker ?: Our expedition was quite short. It was quite short. [00:47:47] Speaker 3: It was like 22 days effective in the field. And this certainly is comparable to what other expeditions with large vessels are bringing back in terms of efficiency. For those places that we surveyed, we have a good idea of what is really there and that can be compared in the future and in terms of efficiency. [00:48:19] Speaker 7: For those places that we surveyed, we have a good idea of what is really there and that can be compared in the future. And I think that's the biggest and the most important result that we can bring to the scientific world and to the human communities for conservation. [00:48:42] Speaker 1: How does a story end that is told at the point of departure? At the start of friendship, the beginning of a race, the first step towards a shift and approach? The end of this journey is just the beginning of another, a much harder and much longer one. I'm glad to have met this group of scientists who can lead the way. Now what's left to do is to get up and run with them. I'm glad to have met this group of scientists. 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