Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 2001-02: VUWAE 46
FIELD TRANSPORT
FIELD TRANSPORT
- Vehicles: In general no issues. However, inadequate heavy plant was allocated by ANT NZ engineering to tow the New Harbour camp back to Scott Base. A D3 was sent while the D6 sat idol at Scott Base. There was no adequate explanation for this. The return trip was 22hrs in duration. It raised a number of safety issues for personnel driving the D3 and the accompanying Hagglunds. Mike Collins our mechanic had to relieve the ANT NZ plant operator who fell asleep in the D3. This placed undue stress on my team members who had just finished a physically demanding period of field work and placed all concerned in a dangerous situation
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Aircraft Operations: Helicopter operations - HNZ excellent and really helpful, some page 5 problems arose from miscommunication regarding aeromag survey requirements in advance. This could have been solved by earlier communication between GSW and pilots rather than backwards and forwards between several people - a sort of pre event brief in NZwould have been good. But I realise the final planning for this happened very late in the season and all problems were quickly solved on ice. But we could have ensured a more functional operation by sorting this out earlier. No blame on any party just an observation that a pre-brief in NZ to work through requirements would have helped.
Major Issue with USAF over transport of Orica explosive product that could have jeopardised season (see above). However, we are very appreciative of the efforts made by Jim Cowie and Julian Tangaere that enabled fieldwork to continue. Particularly we are indebted to USAP "master blaster" for providing replacement product.
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Ship Operations: N/A
Other comments:
*Event Diary
K114 Naish | |
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11-Oct-01 | ChCh-Scott Base |
12-Oct-01 | Seismic gear set up in Hagglunds, Horgan, Henderson, Collins and Whitehead field training |
13-Oct-01 | Seismic gear set up in Hagglunds, Horgan, Henderson, Collins and Whitehead field training |
14-Oct-01 | Seismic gear set up in Hagglunds, and field supply set-up. |
15-Oct-01 | Finalise preparations at Scott Base |
16-Oct-01 | Receive explosives from USAP magazine |
17-Oct-O1 | Set-up sledge train and depart for New Harbour, 7 hours travel then camp set-up |
18-Oct-01 | Camp set up, and line surveying |
19-Oct-01 | Shot testing |
20-Oct-01 | Shot test and continue line flagging and surveying |
21-Oct-01 | Seismic survey, electronic problems due to cold - slow progress |
22-Oct-01 | Seismic survey, electronic problems due to cold - slow progress |
23-Oct-01 | Seismic survey, electronic problems due to cold - slow progress |
24-Oct-01 | Seismic survey |
25-Oct-01 | Finish NHS-1 and pack up, move to NHS-2 |
26-Oct-01 | Seismic survey |
27-Oct-01 | Seismic survey |
28-Oct-01 | Seismic survey |
29-Oct-01 | Finish shooting NHS-2 |
30-Oct-01 | Pack-up seismic gear and camp, Naish to Scott Base by helo. |
31-Oct-01 | D3 train to move camp back to Scott Base. Some gear left for K114W |
1-Nov-01 | Day off, Naish and Bannister begin flagging MIS-1page 6 |
2-Nov-01 | Preparation of camp for relocation to MIS-1, Windless Bight, Surveying and flagging of the seismic line. |
3-Nov-01 | Relocation to Windless bight camp by tractor train and camp set-up |
4-Nov-01 | Seismic survey |
5-Nov-01 | Seismic survey |
6-Nov-01 | Seismic survey |
7-Nov-01 | Seismic survey |
8-Nov-01 | Camp-bound by bad weather |
9-Nov-01 | Dig out camp, survey continues |
10-Nov-01 | Camp-bound by bad weather |
11-Nov-01 | Seismic survey filmed for National Geographic |
12-Nov-01 | Seismic survey of MIS-1 completed |
13-Nov-01 | Pack up gear and return to Scott Base |
14-Nov-01 | Pack up gear |
15-Nov-01 | Pack up gear |
16-Nov-01 | Pack up gear, Naish and Lavelle help K114W GPS with surveying and flagging of the grav/mag lines |
17-Nov-01 | Pack up gear, Naish and Lavelle help K114W GPS with surveying and flagging of the grav/mag lines |
18-Nov-01 | Naish and Lavelle help K114W GPS with surveying and flagging of the grav/mag lines |
19-Nov-01 | K114N await flight home |
K114Pyne | |
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11-0ct-01 | ChCh-Scott Base |
12-0ct-01 | Antarctic field training H Caskey/Rig set-up |
13-Oct-01 | Antarctic field training H Caskey/Rig set up |
14-Oct-01 | Rig set-up |
15-Oct-01 | Rig test |
16-Oct-01 | Receive explosives from USAP magazine |
17-0ct-01 | Set-up sledge train and depart for New Harbour, 7 hours travel then camp set-up |
18-Oct-0l | Camp set up, drill test, and survey line |
19-Oct-01 | Shot testing |
20-Oct-01 | Shot test and begin production drilling of shots holes, 38 holes completed |
21-Oct-01 | 56 holes completed, NHS-1 completed |
22-Oct-01 | Flag and survey, NHS-2 completed |
23-Oct-01 | 80 production holes completed |
24-Oct-01 | 34 holes and NHS-2 completed |
25-Qct-01 | Mark out mag/grav survey lines for K114W |
26-Oct-01 | Mark out mag/grav survey lines for K114W |
27-Oct-01 | New Harbour to Scott Base |
28-Oct-01 | Day off |
29-Oct-01 | Gear up rig and transport to Windless Bight |
30-Oct-01 | Gear up wannigan and food |
31-Oct-01 | Relocate south of White-out landing zonepage 7 |
1-Nov-01 | Drilling trials and DV visit |
2-Nov-01 | 10 production holes drilled |
3-Nov-01 | 22 production holes drilled |
4-Nov-01 | 10 production holes drilled |
5-Nov-01 | 22 production holes drilled |
6-Nov-01 | 22 production holes drilled |
7-Nov-01 | 26 production holes drilled |
8-Nov-01 | Camp-bound by bad weather |
9-Nov-01 | Dig out camp, 17 holes drilled |
10-Nov-01 | Camp-bound by bad weather |
11-Nov-01 | 30 holes drilled, filmed for National Geographic |
12-Nov-01 | Finish drilling Line MIS-1, 36 holes completed |
13-Nov-01 | Pack up gear |
14-Nov-01 | Pack up gear |
15-Nov-01 | Kingan to another event. Caskey waits for flight from Scott Base - ChCh |
K114 Wilson | |
24-Oct-01 | Wilson, Thornton, Clifford delayed ChCh |
25-Oct-01 | Wilson, Thornton, Clifford delayed ChCh |
26-Oct-01 | Wilson, Thornton, Clifford ChCh-Scott Base |
27-Oct-01 | Field Preparations, Thornton and Clifford field training |
28-Oct-01 | Field Preparations, Thornton and Clifford field training |
29-Oct-01 | Equipment testing |
30-Oct-01 | Equipment testing |
31-Oct-01 | Finalise preparations at Scott Base |
1-Nov-01 | Calibrate equipment to Scott Base base stations, field put in to New Harbour |
2-Nov-01 | GPS and gravity base station set up, begin magnetics and gravity survey line 1 |
3-Nov-01 | establish ice movement positions, magnetics and gravity survey line 1 |
4-Nov-01 | establish ice movement positions, magnetics and gravity survey line 2 |
5-Nov-01 | magnetics and gravity survey line 2 |
6-Nov-01 | magnetics and gravity survey line 3 |
7-Nov-01 | magnetics and gravity survey line 3 partial day only due to bad weather |
8-Nov-01 | magnetics and gravity survey line 4 |
9-Nov-01 | magnetics and gravity survey line 4 |
10-Nov-01 | camp bound by bad weather |
11-Nov-01 | reoccupy ice movement positions, take skidoo to marble point, camp pack-up and return to Scott Base |
12-Nov-01 | Rest Day |
13-Nov-01 | Field preparations, Helicopter reconaissance over ice shelf |
14-Nov-01 | Field preparations |
15-Nov-01 | Calibrate equipment to Scott Base base stations, fieldpage 8 |
put in to Windless Bight, set-up gravity base station | |
16-Nov-01 | magnetics and gravity survey line 1 |
17-Nov-01 | magnetics and gravity survey lines 1 and 2 |
18-Nov-01 | magnetics and gravity survey lines 2 and 3 |
19-Nov-01 | magnetics and gravity survey lines 3 and 4 |
20-Nov-01 | magnetics and gravity survey lines 4 and 5 |
21-Nov-01 | reoccupy ice movement positions |
22-Nov-01 | Camp pack-up and return to Scott Base |
23-Nov-01 | Immediate processing of base station data |
24-Nov-01 | Immediate processing of base station data |
25-Nov-01 | Immediate processing of base station data |
26-Nov-01 | magnetics and gravity survey HPP-1 line |
27-Nov-01 | Immediate processing of base station data, pack-up |
28-Nov-01 | Immediate processing of base station data, pack-up |
29-Nov-01 | Wilson, Thornton, Clifford await flight to NZ |
K114W cont...& D | |
30-Dec-01 | Wilson, Tinto, Jordan ChCh-Scott Base |
31-Dec-01 | Field Preparations, Tinto and Jordan field training |
1-Jan-02 | Field Preparations, Tinto and Jordan field training |
2-Jan-02 | Equipment testing |
3-Jan-02 | Calibrate equipment to Scott Base base stations, field put in to Black Island, crevasse investigation |
4-Jan-02 | GPS and gravity base station set up, establish ice movement positions |
5-Jan-02 | magnetics and gravity survey line A |
6-Jan-02 | magnetics and gravity survey line B |
7-Jan-02 | magnetics and gravity survey lines B and C |
8-Jan-02 | magnetics and gravity survey lines C and D |
9-Jan-02 | magnetics and gravity survey lines E, F and G, Damaske and Moeller ChCh-Scott Base |
10-Jan-02 | reoccupy ice movement positions, camp pack-up, establish Pegasus Road magentic base station |
11-Jan-02 | magnetics and gravity survey line 4 |
12-Jan-02 | camp bound by bad weather |
13-Jan-02 | reoccupy ice movement positions, take skidoo to marble point, camp pack-up and return to Scott Base |
14-Jan-02 | Rest Day |
15-Jan-02 | Set-up for Aeromag survey |
16-Jan-02 | Aeromag survey, magnetic base station download |
17-Jan-02 | Aeromag survey |
18-Jan-02 | Aeromag survey affected by weather |
19-Jan-02 | Aeromag survey affected by weather |
20-Jan-02 | Helicopter support of gravity survey, Magnetic base station download, Aeromag survey affected by weather |
21-Jan-02 | Aeromag survey |
22-Jan-02 | Aeromag survey affected by weather |
23-Jan-02 | Aeromag survey affected by weather |
24-Jan-02 | Aeromag surveypage 9 |
25-Jan-02 | Aeromag survey affected by weather |
26-Jan-02 | Aeromag survey affected by weather, Tinto and Jordan return to NZ |
27-Jan-02 | Aeromag survey, magnetic base station collection and download |
28-Jan-02 | Aeromag survey |
29-Jan-02 | Magnetic base station collection and download Equipment Pack-up |
30-Jan-02 | Immediate Data Processing, Equipment, pack-up, Moeller returns to NZ |
31-Jan-02 | Immediate Data Processing |
1-Feb-02 | Damaske and Wilson retrun to NZ |
K114 Webster | |
22-Jan-02 | Travel to Christchurch. |
Kit-up at Antarctica NZ. | |
23-Jan-02 | Check-in @ 0700. |
Board C130 and get to end of runway. | |
Flight aborted due to weather on ice. | |
Afternoon working on Webster | |
Drilling equipment in Christchurch. | |
24-Jan-02 | Check-in @ 0700. |
Fly to Scott Base arrive 1800. | |
25-Jan-02 | Scott Base orientation. |
Meeting with Jim Cowie. | |
Overview of CRP equipment with | |
Jim and electrician. | |
Sled with riser by D6 to workshop. | |
Empty sled to near workshop. | |
Remade pipe mouse. | |
Test riser pipes : 8 lengths. | |
26-Jan-02 | Pipe dope from Cape Roberts gear. |
Test riser pipes : 40 lengths. | |
: need more sponge bungs for riser | |
27-Jan-02 | Test riser pipes : 22 lengths. |
Discussion with Gary re magnetisation. | |
28-Jan-02 | Antarctic Field Training: |
29-Jan-02 | Antarctic Field Training. |
Back to Scott Base by 1100. | |
Finish testing 5.5m riser pipes : 11 lengths | |
Use D6 to arrange sleds. | |
Two sleds with half of pipes on each.page 10 | |
Test riser shorts : 19 lengths. | |
30-Jan-02 | Clear site for containers. |
Sort out gear for New Zealand. | |
Move floats to try and look at mud. | |
Mud count impossible without | |
container totally emptied. | |
Check containers for shipping | |
to New Zealand. | |
Check with Alex exact requirements. | |
Unload augers and batteries from | |
Webster Drilling equipment. | |
Repack Webster Drilling gear. | |
31-Jan-02 | Get all equipment up to top |
container site. | |
Go through CRP containers with Gary. | |
Drill holes and set pile pins. | |
Used Scott Base compressor. | |
Inspect internal tie downs in NZ | |
containers with US loadmaster. | |
01-Feb-02 | Unload CRP walkway and pull stays. |
Stack against NZ containers for | |
onloading onto 40′ turnaround | |
container coming on the boat. | |
Make and secure lids for all boxes | |
inside the containers. | |
Mark out post heights for container | |
stands with SB carpenter and level. | |
Cut posts to length and weld to | |
anchor plates. | |
Meeting with Jim Cowie about siting | |
of the rod sleds. | |
02-Feb-02 | Move rod sleds up to Cape Roberts gear |
Attempt to lift Emily shed with loader and | |
prepare for shipping - too heavy need crane | |
Load stairway and walkway for McMurdo. | |
Start unloading Alaners | |
03-Feb-02 | McMurdo look around. |
Skiing in afternoon. | |
04-Feb-02 | Unload 40′ container of polystyrene |
for septic tank. | |
Move container over to CRP area and | |
load Longyear mast and support beams. | |
Secure inside of container with binders.page 11 | |
Clean dirt off Emily base. | |
Attempt to move mud container for | |
inventory - too heavy. | |
Assist unloading beer container. | |
Assist unloading meat and veg container. | |
05-Feb-02 | Remove batteries from CRP generators |
and charge up. | |
Test and fix mobile Herman heater. | |
Assist unloading containers from ship. | |
Set up welder and gas at workshop | |
container. | |
Set up angle iron container base. | |
Weld up base while testing generators. | |
Princess Anne visit meeting. | |
06-Feb-02 | After loader washdown clean cold porch. |
Finish welding container frame. | |
Put away all gear. | |
Clean up container site. | |
Unload container with sewerage plant | |
frames and take to site. | |
Hot water rig container up to CRP site. | |
Shift mud container forward with D6. | |
Check out 6m HQ and NQ rods. | |
: need stripping down to 3m lengths | |
: threads need to be doped | |
: corner towing hitch on mud container | |
needs straightening and welding | |
ANDRILL containers arrived. | |
Trip to Cape Evans in evening. | |
07-Feb-02 | Pick up dunnage from CRP and SB |
container sites with motorbike and trailer. | |
Unload ANDRILL containers. | |
Can not lift ANDRILL containers onto | |
frame - need crane (booked for Monday) | |
Princess Anne arrives. | |
08-Feb-02 | Continue unloading containers. |
Dope up NQ inner tubes. | |
Assist moving lathe. | |
09-Feb-02 | Stack some CRP gear in ANDRILL |
container. | |
Scott plaque unveiling. | |
Unload rest of containers. | |
Finish stacking CRP gear.page 12 | |
Move drill pipe to bottom. | |
Scott Base dinner for HRH. | |
10-Feb-02 | Fly to Christchurch. |
Moroney to Wellington. | |
Rutland stays in Christchurch. | |