LAST WEEK of the polar expedition - Transit from the Ice edge on Saturday the 11th to arrival in Helsingborg on Sunday 19th
We left the last ice station on Saturday evening at 8 pm and reached the ice edge around midnight between Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th. The ice got thinner and changed to the forms of pancakes, and then suddenly disappeared within some hours. Waking up on Sunday 12th - the first day of the transit - and looking out of the window: NO ICE only open ocean!!! It was really heartbreaking to realise there would not be any ice more, and the noises form the ship while moving on open ocean is not coming from breaking ice, but from the waves. The new sea-conditions required adaptation to a lot of us - as we were not used to the wavy motions and thus some of us got really seasick during the first days of the transit over the Atlantic. However, we were not only seeing ocean and sea spray, but also the mountains of Svalbard were visible on Sunday. Me and John decided to launch the last weather balloon once we reach Svalbard - so it was time today :/ We invited our colleagues to witness