Akta Bay has provided us with many exciting challenges in the past 24 hours, but we have managed to succeed in our quest and are currently discharging cargo against the ice shelf slightly to the west of the North Point on the Western side of Akta Bay.
The bay ice we pushed up against yesterday afternoon was found unsuitable due to some extensive cracks en route to the ramp in the shelf. It was decided to "reckie" a route via helicopter over the shelf ice to join up with the set route between Nuemayer and SANAE. The afternoon was spent trying to find a suitable spot against the ice shelf to discharge the cargo.
The day then became too long and it was decided to revisit the site in the morning and start fresh. We decided to exit the bay since some heavy pieces of broken bay ice and multi year sea ice was approaching us and closing the bay up behind us.
During the night we ran back to North Point since the area at the shelf was opening up, which ended to be first price for us and where we are currently.
Have a nice day.
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