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Coast Guard Pictures |
Ice breaker USCGC Polar Star. Parked the ice for an "Ice Party" 1988 |
Ice Breaker USCGC Glacier. her last voyage. I took the picture while we were waiting our turn to land on her helo deck. |
Palmer Research Station Antartica. Located across the tip of South America |
Ice Party off of the USCGC Glacier. 1987 |
It is about midnight on the USCGC Glacier. I am on the flight deck and see the Emperior Penguin and Killer Whale looking at each other. 1987 |
Heading home after two months when this last picture of Antartica was taken in 1987 on the Glacier |
I've heard that Antartica is the driest continent. When it does have precipitation it is in the form of snow and it stays forever. This is a supply cache. One of our missions was to make sure that these caches had supplies. 1988 |
Penguins are easy to catch. They don't know that humans are dangerous. Someone walked up to this one at it's rookery, put a sack over its head, brought it to the ship and tied it up. That made it mad. No one would try to get near it to untie it. I did. Then I dropped it over the side. I could feel hard muscles under his feathers. |
Arriving Sidney Harbor 1988. |
Jack and David being stationed together was quite the story. Too bad we got switched around in it! This story is dated Feb 15, 1978 |
Enlistment Day Nov 14, 1977 |
A Story about the USCGC Modoc. Seasick my first 5 months. Like riding a football. After I got my legs it was kinda fun. This story is dated sometime in Feb 1978. |
Jack and shipmate doing some daily PMS on the Mud Duck's (Modoc) small boat. I had the lookout watch. |
1903 early explorer hut. Past the helo on the hill is a hugh penguin rookery. If I remember right it was Scott's hut. |
Weird to see so much dry land in Antartica. In the distance are the "Ice Falls". Glaciers are pushing over the edge and falling thousands of feet |
The distance is about 40 miles across this sound. |
USCGC Polar Star breaking ice. |
Me para-glide landing on the beach. After my friend paid up, they discovered that he was way too big for the harness (6'4"). They would not give a refund and he did not want to waste the money so he talked me into taking his place!! |
Midnight in Antartica. Killers whales use the holes we punched in the ice to breathe. Once the ship shut down for the night, it gets quiet. You can hear the whales breathing through their blow holes. |
Cold weather survival school in Gunnison Colorado. First we camped in tents, then eventually alone in a snow cave you had to dig yourself. |
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Palmer Station from the air. Larger version has a label showing where the ship is. Palmer Station is behind ship. I took this photo from the helicopter. |
Polar Star on the ice runway used by the C-130's on skis in the winter. |
Taking some rolls in the "roaring 40's" |
Animal Preserve outside of Sydney. |
I had the bottom "rack". It lifts up for storage underneath. You cannot see the top rack that makes it three racks stacked on top of each other. |
Many icebergs shaped all kinds of different ways. |
Getting ready for some flight ops. I am wearing the helmet. |
One of my favorite pics. We were giving the ship's crew sight seeing flights and staged off of the ice. |
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CPO Initiation CGAS Astoria Oregon |
David & Cathy @ Barbers Point Hawaii Quarters |
CWO Swearing Ceremony at Diamond Head Light House, Hawaii. Sworn in LTJG Brian Durr. |
Modoc crew on bow March 25, 1978 Click on pic for larger image |
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November 30, 2005
