We've received your submission. 5 Drs. Sudden Disappearance. AmundsenScott South Pole Station. The animals inhabit a wedge of . Three days later, an Antarctic blizzard stalled the rescue efforts. Later at a camp near Marie Byrd Land, some dozen scientists disappeared for two weeks. The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks in an effort to reach isolated Lake Vostok, a vast, dark body of water hidden 13,000 ft. below. ]. Some people think the boat sank and fell over the continental shelf, where it would be impossible to find. The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) set sail from the port of Bluff, on New Zealand's southern island, on Nov. 27, aboard the M.S. Not long after that, his backpack was found next to a river. According to theNew York Times, the Coast Guard searched 132,000 square miles of ocean for four days but found no trace of the Turing Award-winning Microsoft researcher's 40-foot sailboat. The expedition will return to Hobart, Australia, rather than to its home port of Bluff, New Zealand, and the planned stop at Macquarie Island is, in Stone's words, "so not on." While the oldest known core of ice dates back approximately 2.7 million years, per Science, the oldest continuous ice core dates back just 800,000. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Brian and his crew also saw a huge, football-field-sized hole in the ice only about five to ten miles from the geographic South Pole that was supposed to be a No Fly Zone. A group of scientists discovered ancient viruses frozen in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China, and most of them are unlike anything ever seen before. There is nobody to call.. But there aren't any good theories to explain why the boat might have gotten into trouble in the first place, especially considering the good weather and its captain's extensive experience. CAMBRIDGE, England -- Three British scientists, presumed dead in Antartica, may have fallen through thin sea ice more than a week ago, officials said. DEEP WOO: DID MUSKS OPEN A.I. On February 19, 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd left Base Camp Arctic and flew northward. That's what happened to Peng Jiamu, a biologist at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. This theory says Alexandrov was kidnapped by the KGB because he was planning to tell the world the nuclear winter theory was actually bunk. The competing teams have been watching the Russians and sharing notes over the past few days, Pearce told FoxNews.com yet no one knows what has happened. Brian: Brian: And the voice on the other end of the line said, Is this Brian?. 2022 BGR Media, LLC. He added, "I wish I'd bought a fleet of them. He claims that a collaboration between humans and aliens exist, and that the Antarctica is a major research ground for these incredible collaborations. Antarctica Retired Navy Flight Engineer Warned by NSAto Stop Talking About Missing Scientists, The U. S. government said it will seek to block the airing of a videofound by Navy rescuers in Antarctica that purportedly reveals that a massive archaeological dig is underway two miles beneath the ice.. Oh and guess what, he was alone. Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans From Polar Melt Give this article 1426 By Justin Gillis and Kenneth Chang May 12, 2014 A large section of the mighty West Antarctica ice sheet has begun falling. . Trawls of water reeled in hauls of plastic rubbish, now seemingly ubiquitous in the worlds oceans. The Akademik Shokalskiy got stuck in ice on Christmas Day 2013 only two weeks after leaving New Zealand. A view of the trapped Akademik Shokalskiy from across the ice in Antarctica. Antarcticas Thwaites Glacier is reportedly melting rapidly in unexpected ways, according to new research published Wednesday by Cornell University and the British Antarctic Survey. Later at a camp near Marie Byrd Land, some dozen scientists disappeared for two weeks. This Extraterrestrial UFO Prank Was PERFECTLY Executed! And that the air sampling station (big hole in the ice) was actually ajoint base with the scientists and the E.T.s., Brian, retired Navy Flight Engineer, Antarctic Development Squadron Six, July 1, 2016 Phoenix, Arizona A year and a half ago in January 2015, I received an email from a retired 60-year-old U. S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Flight Engineer, who asked me to only call him Brian. [See June 30, 2016 URL link to new reprint of whole original interview at end of this report below.]. A world thats teeming with life. Were all waiting with bated breath, he said. The Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute did not respond to FoxNews.com requests for information on the status of the team, information that did not surprise Priscu. Like the rescue mission, this involved plenty of waiting. Two studies published in the journal Nature found that deep cracks and staircase formations in the ice are melting at a faster rate due to rising temperatures, though the pace of melting underneath is slower than previously believed. In this tale of adventure gone terribly, terribly wrong, a geologist and planetary scientist named Thomas A. Mutch vanished in 1980 while descending a 23,000-foot peak in the Kashmir Himalayas. . A defecting Russian scientist has surfaced with a mind-bending account of what REALLY occurred when he and his colleagues went missing for five days in a mysterious lake 12,366 feet beneath the Antarctic ice. When he proposed marriage in 1969, Frame literally ran away, and when she finally returned a week later, Williams had vanished. The fate of the ice sheets may rest, literally, on what's underneath them. Of course not all missing scientists vanished in the line of duty some of them vanished on their days off and some of them probably vanished on purpose. If you're stricken with summit fever, nothing will dissuade you from the summit, not even life-threatening illness, because Everest is your dream, and dang it, it cost you a lot of money to get there. At any rate, one such disappearance was the case of Boris Weisfeiler, a mathematician who decided one day that Pennsylvania winters were just too danged warm so he was going to go hiking in the mountains of southern Chile. Jim Gray went on a sailing trip in 2007 and was never seen again. The competing teams have been watching the Russians and sharing notes over the past few days, Pearce told FoxNews.com -- yet no one knows what has happened. And he did tell his friend that he felt like his life was in danger, which seems incompatible with a solo trek into the wilderness. or redistributed. But he never returned. And other expeditions find bodies in Lop Nur all the time though to date none of them have turned out to be Peng. Instead, they found that swarms of tiny amphipods were moving in front of the lens. Its the worlds largest ice shelf and has been the focus of multiple research projects over the years. Very few people overwinter in Antarctica, and the continent has no indigenous population, so nobody was born there, there are no children around, nobody has much of a history there. But on Friday, the temperature leaped to zero (minus-17.7 . He was in Madrid, so there's a possibility he might have defected, which would explain why he was never heard from again. You can take some people with you on the expedition, and with modern technology you can take the rest of the world, he said. New Zealand cardiologist J.C.P. Half of the standard passengers aboard the Shokalskiy paid A$18,000 (9,700) to go along as scientific assistants. The ship itself was never found, and neither was the crew. Air temperatures have been higher than usual in parts of the Antarctic, around 1.5 degrees Celsius above the long term average. If those things are true, then Williams is likely one missing person who would really just prefer to remain missing. The. . Were all waiting with bated breath, he said. 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To survive the extreme colds there, scientists wear as many layers as possible and do everything they can to work indoors. Peng's colleagues don't seem to find his disappearance as mysterious as the public did the Lop Nur landscape is almost carnivorous, and the idea that it could swallow someone up without a trace is certainly not fantastic. Scientists have made recent expeditions to Antarctica to install instruments that will give them the information they need. A 2021 study said the ice shelf could collapse within the next five years while scientists said last year Thwaites is hanging on by its fingernails., David Rounce, a glaciologist at Carnegie Mellon University who was not involved in the study, told CNN the new research provides novel insights into how rapidly the bottom of the ice shelf is melting and the mechanisms by which its melting, which are very important for improving our understanding and ability to model how Thwaites will change in the future.. The moisture in your mouth would start to freeze, he said. Ardern this week is making a rare visit by a world leader to Antarctica, to see firsthand the research taking place on global warming and to mark the 65th anniversary of New Zealand's Scott Base, . This rough-looking vessel carries some 30 scientists; four Zodiac boats; three tracked, floating, all-terrain vehicles called Argos; and an assortment of scientific equipment. The Shokalskiy's Russian crew stayed with their ship, where they waited until they managed to free the ship today. All rights reserved. Its a remarkable achievement and one that will hopefully continue to shed light on this cold and mysterious part of the world. 03:28. That New Years Eve an interview with expedition leader Chris Turney was beamed live to Times Square in New York. 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