First view under the sea ice

Jeff Peneston was able to test the camera arm created by Liverpool High School students, Jon and Eric. It worked perfectly! Jeff attached his underwater camera to the pole that the students had created and was able to push the camera through a meter of slush filled seawater in one of the 14cm diameter ice core holes. When Jeff pulled up on the flexible plastic strip that runs through the pole and connects to the camera he was able to angle the camera up and down to examine the bottom of the ice floe. These images gave the scientist a better understanding of the condition of the bottom of the ice. Notice the brown regions in the ice that show where the algae and bacteria live. On the sea ice, near the icebreaker Oden.

Credit to read: Photo by Jeff Peneston (PolarTREC 2008/2009), Courtesy of ARCUS