Danny Parmiter, Chief Engineer, showed me the engine room and so much more, levels below waterline.
(Peter Lourie)
Danny Parmiter, Chief Engineer, showed me the engine room and so much more, levels below waterline.
(Peter Lourie)
One of the five engines used to push the Louis through ice. Although we have been mostly using two engines so far on this trip with the easy ice, in fact it might take the Louis more, perhaps even five itself, to push its way home through the Northwest Passage after it drops off the supernumeries on Oct 18 in Kugluktuk.
(Peter Lourie)
Danny and other engineers in the state-of-the-art control room.
(Peter Lourie)
Danny shows me the reverse osmosis desalinator that turns seawater into the oodles of fresh water we have for drinking and washing.
(Peter Lourie)
Danny shows me the reverse osmosis desalinator that turns seawater into the oodles of fresh water we have for drinking and washing.
(Peter Lourie)
Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai studies water samples taken from the rosette to determine where the fresh water in the Beaufort is from. She can study the isotopes of a particular sample and can tell if it is river water or sea ice melt.
(Peter Lourie)
Yanxin Zhang (whose greatest dream was to come to the Arctic) and Mika Hasegawa who both work with Michiyo in her lab onboard the ship.
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