What I Do In Antarctica - McMurdo Edition!
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Finally, I answer one of the most common questions that I get about my time here on the Ice: what do I do down here for work!? My official job title at McMurdo was Fuels Operator, but with all the slang that exists around the station, we just went by “fuelie.” What does this mean? Well basically we are in charge of operating and maintaining the entire fuel system at McMurdo Station! Check out the video for more details! 🙌🛢
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I am currently living and working at the South Pole Station through the United States Antarctic Program. I am not down here as a filmmaker or photographer, but instead work in the Logistics and Supply department. All of these videos are being made during my free time and not during working hours. We are very busy down here keeping the station running at maximum efficiency, but I have managed to find some free time to make these short movies!
Cool video, who knew it takes more than science to keep science going.
Oh for sure!! It's pretty easy to forget, but there are so many things that are needed for science to happen, and a ton of people are involved!
@@GoneVenturing I work on the top of a mountain maintaining snowcats, I understand logistics. Well done.
I'm liking this different level of work isolation and peace
Love how you managed working and creating these amazing videos (which keep getting better) , Could you also make a video or shed some information as to how to land such a job ? :)
god damn it!!!!!!! snow and ice!!!!!!!! all year round! SIGN ME UP! especially, for the winter time, when there's less sunlight! i come from lithuania and live in uk... i NEED real winters! anything less (above) -20c is a damned autumn!
If I didn’t have dogs, I’d totally go do a year in Logistics. What an adventure!
Hello Mr, this job is surely very demanding and very hard with ice and snow and being so cold but you're very strong to deal with such coldness
great video once again!! thank you!!!!
I really want to do what you do. Antarctica is so incredibly beautiful
very nice life!
~ Fantastic video, V! Your videography skills are amazing and it’s SO cool to see what you do down in A’tica!! Stay safe and keep up the amazing videos that help us see the gorgeous continent and learn about the “goings on” in cool Antarctica (no pun intended)! :D
Thank you so much!! That really means so much!! 😊😊 and yeah! I definitely will keep them coming!! And soon it’ll be South Pole winter videos, which I’m pretty excited to share!! 🙌
love your videos bro, i really wish i could go and work in Antartica. the place fascinates me
*Antarctica
Great video. Have to admire your work and enthusiasm
Amazing Thats a job for me,,,i hope they do over time .. because i would be out there all the time ..i would love that job ❤❤❤❤❤
Great editing job
Thank you very much!! I really appreciate it! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊
Very cool! Thank you for showing!
How can you only have 2500 subscribers? Love your videos!
I love your optimistic outlook in the South Pole base! Normally I would expect people who live and work there to have a very negative personality due to a redundant environment, and this is just an Artic base versus something like a Moon or Martian colony. Are there a lot of people who stay happy and mentally healthy like you, or are there some people who are bitter and hateful due to the environment? What keeps up the good morale? I was casually scrolling through Google Maps in Antartica to find a "coffee house" smack in the middle of no where, so I've been watching a few films of the place. Haha
Thank you so much! I definitely try to stay positive and happy while down here! It's easy at McMurdo, but during the Pole winter it's definitely a bit more difficult. But I definitely have hard days as well. And everyone seems to slowly decline a little bit throughout the winter as well, myself included. But I just try to remind myself how lucky I am to be living such a cool experience and that seems to help!
And interesting! I bet it's the coffee house at McMurdo! It's a little lounge that doubles as a cafe and wine bar! It's pretty awesome actually ☺️
As I understand it, everyone who is there wants to be there.
Good idea to at least spell it accurately. Americans might pronounce the place “Antartica” but it is spelt Antarctica. For some reason Americans leave out the middle c. It is not an arctic base, it is an Antarctic base. It is also not a “redundant” environment, redundancy is definitely a feature of the bases where there are systems to replace broken down ones, this is not a word that can be used to describe the environment.
These are such great videos - thank you!
This comment is super off topic, but the almost absolute lack of human made sound down there must be pretty neat. I can't even imagine being somewhere where you can't at least hear the distant highway traffic or a plane flying overhead at 35,000ft or a darned leafblower or something
Thanks for sharing about your life on this remote island.
Years ago, I knew a couple that went on a cruise to Antarctica and saw the penguins.
Really great and awesome video 🤘🏻 that’s one of my goals to work in that amazing place one day. Thanks a lot for sharing your job, u gave me a great inside about what job i should apply for. I also want the opportunity to know and explore if posible the place and so far it seems like i could do it in that job. Currently I’m working at Caterpillar and being trained to become a heavy equipment technician but i rather do something that would allow me to explore the continent. Hope u are doing well. Thanks a lot 🤘🏻
This was a trip down memory lane, although my job was different, I lived in bldg 155, my last season down there, but looks like little has changed, over the years, btw, Willy field was named for a guy named Willy whose cat broke thru the ice and was never found, do the still use the ice ware for the re-supply shipway and does the polar star or polar sea ice breakers still operate to make a channel for the re-supply ship….?
You have my dream job ^^ 😻💕
I definitely feel very lucky! It’s an amazing place!
what kind of qualifications does one have to bring to get a job like that? awesome images and insights again, cheers.
Yeah I want to know too.
@@loslingos1232 tapping down sir, count me in!
Hey there, I actually just applied for a position as a Fuels Operator today and I'm hoping to hear back from someone at some point soon! Any suggestions for getting hired and doing the job of a Fuels Operator?
Oh awesome!! I hope you get it! But I mean, the big thing that will help is having some related experiences and then being willing to do hard and long work outside in the cold!
How far is the hose-lay you talked about from Williams Field to the bulk tanks at McMurdo? I just read this about Williams Field on Wikipedia, quite amazing, I had no idea it wasn't over land. "Williams Field consists of two snow runways located on approximately 8 meters (25 ft) of compacted snow, lying on top of 8-10 ft of ice, floating over 550 meters (1,800 ft) of water."
The hose is about 7 miles long!! And yeah, it's on the Ice shelf! Pretty crazy stuff really ☺️
I'm going for my mechatronics course in engineering and would love to work in Antarctica, however I dont know if there are any positions related to that there
After watching the first 30 seconds I think my first question is Why did they install a giant metal phallus there?
Ok I've been asking what do you do?
Then find this lol
My daughter is in McMurdo now
What kind of computer are you using to edit videos, do you worry about running out of storage space, making these videos?
I have a MacBook! And I’m not too worried, as I brought like 8 external hard drives with me! But all the footage and whatnot does take up a lot of space, that’s for sure!
Thank you for watching!! 😊
Awesome video as always. I wonder what was your job when you were at McMurdo a couple of seasons back?
Thank you so much!! And last time I was here, I worked in the galley as a Dining Attendant. So basically front of house. Definitely not a glamorous job, but it's one of the easier ones to get, so it gets your foot in the door! This is the job that I really wanted ☺️
8:36 basler bt-67 O.o
Don’t get to liking that place too much. You may learn to hate it one time. Like me !!! By the way that fuels truck of yours used to be called “Sheron”..
Maybe, but for now I love it!
And Sheron is still here. Liz is a new Delta that came in the last few years. Sharen is still kicking!
One thing that sucks about being a “Fuely” is that you’ll be sitting in the galley in 155 eating and everyone at your table will saying “Ok , who’s the Fuely here”. By the way, the fuel containers for the South Pole Traverse are actually fuel bladders that carry 3000 gallons each and placed on HMW Plastic sleds which are attached to metal “CRREL” tool sleds and pulled 1,500 miles to South Pole Station. Only thing that changes down there are the faces..
Meh I didn’t really mind it. Also, a lot of times is fuelies just sit together since our schedules are weird and don’t go to lunch at regular times.
And yeah, I know all about the bladders! Hah. I filled them up at McMurdo and then drained them when I got here to the Pole.
awesome vids - you still there?
U Kno Whats Comming. DONT LIE!!!
It won’t be a spelling bee in your situation. *you, *know, *what’s, *coming *don’t. How can you make 5 spelling errors in 6 words?
What do the planes bring to other places, just people or supplies or both?
Does all the aircraft run on jet fuel or do you have some that also run on 100LL?
If I wanted to get a job there doing that what qualifications would I need?
Hey mate, I need to get work in Antartica as a camp cleaner, storekeeper, kitchen any vacancies?
I would also love to contribute to the community
If you can’t even spell Antarctica I don’t think you should be going there.
@@teeanahera8949 I graduated as grade 1 section Z. Sorry for my spell and thank you for cretizing me. I know you graduated with hieghest honor as Magna or Summa Cum Laude In prestigeous Harvard University. And you are currently working as CEO with your own company. I salute you Maam. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
How did you get your job at Antarctica?
Does PAE provide the overalls you were wearing in the video?
Yep! Depending on what your job is, they will give you your ECW gear!
Incredible videos. But one question: where does the fuel come from? In your other vide, you said a 1,000 gallons are flown in with every cargo ship. Is the entire South Pole powered by internal combustion generators? Is all the fuel in those massive underground tanks at Amundsen flown in?
This seems insane. Why not just bring in some nuclear reactors from decommissioned submarines, solar or wind?
Thank you!
Yeah pretty much everything on ice is powered by diesel. There is a fuel tanker ship that comes once a year to offload into the massive tanks at McMurdo. Then the fuel also gets transported from there to Pole both overland and also by air.
I agree it would be awesome to find another source of power considering diesel definitely isn’t the best for the environment. But solar would only work for half the year and even during summer we can have crappy weather, so it wouldn’t be ideal. There are a few wind turbines down there but not enough to fully rely on. And they did have nuclear at one point at McMurdo but that got decommissioned. Not entirely sure why!
McMurdo used to have a nuclear reactor and it was active for about 10 years. The problem with it was that it suffered quite a few malfunctions and it was only working about 72% of the time, so it wasn't as reliable as it needed to be, given that literally everything depends on having around the clock power available. Also the diesel-electric generators require less staff and maintenance to function, so it was also more cost effective to switch to generators.
Also something noteworthy is that due to the remote locations and extreme weather conditions of many of these research stations, they can't just ship any old nuclear reactor to these places. They need to be specifically designed to function in these environments and also they need to be portable enough that they can be transferred to the station and then built on site. The reactor they used was built specifically with the LC-130 aircraft in mind.
So it's quite an investment to have to specifically design, build & ship a nuclear reactor to these stations, and then that reactor has to be easily maintained and it can't suffer from malfunctions. You don't really have an option to just shut off everything and repair it in peace and ship in parts during winter season, nor can you evacuate people out of there in case of an emergency. So it's a great idea on paper, but very difficult to do in a cost efficient & safe way. It's such a niche use case for a nuclear reactor, that engineers haven't perfected the design of such a thing, unlike diesel-electric generators which have a long track record by now.
@@GoneVenturing It suffered from so many malfunctions that over it's 10 year life span, it was available only 72% of the times, so it didn't turn out to be as cost efficient and safe as it seemed on paper.
@@rantanen1 wow, don't know how the hell you have all this information in your head, but thanks for that solid explanation.
@@samgodever heard of Google, you can look this up in 30 seconds?
are they're job opportunities?
How to get a job there?
Petroleum transfer engineer
How can I move there?
I am a chef an i want to live there
Do you guys make much? The salaries on indeed arent inspiring to say the least. Hopefully it is tax free.
Ya I was surprised to see how low the pay was for my trade. Seems like it should be double what I saw to make it worth the sacrifice.
Do you do science?
Send a video lf that inner city found overthere by..CHILE EXPLORERS.. the one forbiden for the rest of the world
Why are people so stupid?????? This is not real, not true, never was, never will be. Nothing on Antarctica is forbidden, it is not owned by anyone and any base can visit any other base. The Antarctic Treaty stipulates this.