MercoPress https://en.mercopress.com/ South Atlantic News Agency en Copyright 2024, MercoPress. https://en.mercopress.com/web/img/en/mercopress-logo.gif MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ <![CDATA[HMS Protector solidarity visit to Ukraine's Vernadsky Antarctic base]]> Teams from Ukraine and UK at the Vernadsky Base On the two year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector visited the Vernadsky Base to express support and discuss how Ukraine and the UK are supporting peaceful scientific cooperation in Antarctica.

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Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:21:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Crossing the Line Certificate for surviving in freezing Antarctic waters when an iceberg capsized]]> Ex HMS Protector Dave Stone, now 80, one of a party of seven sailors who survived an overturned iceberg, back in 1966 A former sailor who served on board the previous Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector, who escaped with his life after falling into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, has shared a collection of memorabilia with the crew of the current vessel.

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Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:00:00 GMT
<![CDATA[HMS Protector removes waste from Brabant Island next to Antarctica Peninsula]]> HMS Protector returned to Brabant Island for the first time since 2017 to continue work to remove abandoned equipment from an expedition in the 1980s. Photo: Royal Navy Royal Navy sailors have helped preserve the natural beauty of Antarctica by removing three tons of waste from an island. Ice patrol HMS Protector returned to Brabant Island – on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula – for the first time since 2017 to continue work to remove abandoned equipment from an expedition in the 1980s.

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Thu, 08 Feb 2024 05:17:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Ice Patrol HMS Protector is helping to study the impact of tourism on Antarctica]]> According to IAATO, during the 2022/23 season more than 104,000 visitors traveled to Antarctica. The Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector took scientists on an Antarctic research cruise to analyze the increasing impact of tourism and climate change on the frozen continent, a challenge which has been underlined by IAATO, the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators. IAATO has pointed out that during the 2022/23 season more than 104,000 visitors traveled to Antarctica.

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Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:43:00 GMT
<![CDATA[During January, HMS Protector will help witha a research on increased tourism and pollution]]> IAATO recorded 105,331 people visited Antarctica during the 2022-23 tourism season – travelling on one of 50 ships a day. And this trend is expected to grow The consequences of increased tourism and pollution in Antarctica, are two of the tasks the Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector will be checking during this month in the frozen continent. For this purpose it has invited two scientists from the University of Portsmouth, Professor Fay Couceiro and Dr. Clare Boston.

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Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:06:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Change of skipper for the Royal Navy Ice Patrol]]> Captain Maryla Ingham has handed over Command of the Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector to Captain Tom Weaver OBE After 20 months and 54,500nm, Captain Maryla Ingham RN has handed over Command of the Ice Patrol HMS Protector to Captain Tom Weaver OBE RN in the Falkland Islands.

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Tue, 12 Dec 2023 10:10:00 GMT
<![CDATA[From chef of HMS Protector to cooking at Chequers and 10 Downing Street]]> Chef Heidi Sermulins in Antarctica with HMS Protector in the background From cooking in the presence of penguins to cooking at Chequers, UK's Prime Minister country residence, it has been a varied Royal Navy career for Chef Heidi Sermulins. She has spent the past year working at Chequers, near Aylesbury, a world away from her previous roles as a chef on ice patrol ship HMS Protector and before that, frigate HMS Northumberland.

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Sat, 05 Aug 2023 08:07:00 GMT
<![CDATA[HMS Protector says “Farewell, Falklands”]]> The Royal Navy's only ice patrol HMS Protector has left the Falkland Islands on her way back to Plymouth after four of Antarctic work. It will be a 6,000-mile journey for maintenance and training after completing her season last month safeguarding birdlife and laying the groundwork for further research in the years to come protecting wildlife, safeguarding birdlife, and leaving behind special markers.

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Sat, 11 Mar 2023 08:33:00 GMT
<![CDATA[HMS Protector calls it a season, heads back north]]> “After a season of the sun never setting, it will be good to see the stars again,” Captain Ingham said (Pic RN) The Royal Navy's icebreaker HMS Protector has completed her Antarctic scientific mission for the 2023 Antarctic season safeguarding birdlife and laying the groundwork for further research, it was announced.

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Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:44:00 GMT
<![CDATA[HMS Protector's football fixture included playing in the Antarctic Circle]]> The “distraction of the spectacular backdrop” was perhaps to blame for the Royal Navy crew's loss Sailors from the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Ship continued their tour of impressive football pitches (starting with Grytviken in South Georgia), when they kicked off inside the Antarctic Circle.

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Wed, 01 Feb 2023 10:10:00 GMT