REPORT THE ADVENTURE
Hi, brave reporter! Your adventurous soul is being tested as your worst fears have become true and you're trapped in the ice.
Shackleton's ship won't move and survival is the men's priority. Write your reports day by day to keep the rest of the world well informed.
posted by ConstanTeacher at 11:33 pm
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Day 1
The journey has begun at 20th December 2007. The crew have created about thirty persons, this people is the diferent class in the institute.
The journey is dangerous, horrible, frithening because we have acrossed the Antartica.We have the travel with a big boat very modern and technologiac.The departure was very carefully.The travel started, at the moment the weather isn't much cold and bored.
The day has pacific and normaly.
With this words I have finished the story of the first day of this adventure.
(María)
Second day:
I'm happy because the crew is a very good person and the work from everybody that normal and very well. The cooker is my cousin , his name is Tomas, he cooks every day for the thirty persons in the big boat. His wife Maddonna works in the tables on the canteen.
I like live in this boat beacause at the moment is normal .
Now, I stay across the sea and I don't see the beach, rocks, mountains...
In the part on the boat , we have the eat, the differents animals, dogs, wine in the barrils, beer and others provisions for a months in the Antartica.
With this words I have finished the story of the second day in this adventure.
(Gemma)
Third Day:
Today the weather has been very bad. I love when the day it’s cloudy and it rains but now it’s a handicap. It’s not easy to be fine when the swell spin-dry your ideas but we can resist, we’re hardy people! Ok! I’m joking, the weather is not good but we can resist easily. Moreover, to sail is not easy in these conditions.
I don’t know all the members of the crew but the people who I know are fantastic, there are some people really unkind but it’s all right now.
We have all the tasks programmed and that is really stressing. All the people know what they have to do. Yes, I said that’s stressing but is the best way to don’t waste the time.
And...That is all!'
Fourth Day:
Today has started to snow, and the people is really happy because the Christmas is near, but I'm afraid, the boat is slower than yesterday.
Last night we haved a party in the boat, all the people was drinking beer an wine and today all the crew have headache.
The people is bored because the don't have anything to have a good time.
The boys started to harass the gils of the expedition.
This is everything what has happened today.
Day 5
This morning we wake up with a bad news, the ship is atrapped in the ice. Only we can see snow, snow, and snow, the weather is very bad. The expedition is in danger, but this was something we warned the fishermen of whales. Why we didn't listen to the fishermen of whales? Now we don't know what can happen the next days, maybe the weather change and we can scape of this nightmare, the problems in the tripulation hour after hour has been increased, we need solutions!
The party of two nights ago was fun, and the tripulation enjoy it. Maybe we can organizated another parties, poker tournaments, theaters, or another type of activities to distract the people, but of course the task programmed can continue.
Nothing more important succes this day.
End of the day.
Day 5:
Today is 25th of December. The people are very unhappy because is christmas and they aren't in his houses. Everybody want to celebrate Christmas. I decided do an specialy diner, and another ludic thing.
The people laughed, enjoyed and sang.
The weather are very good. It is snowing but it is sunny.
Tomas and I are begin a sonwman, with a tie, a cup, a jacket, and a broom.
At the end of the day, everybody was drunkard, so, all the people of the boat will hangover tomorrow.
Day 6
the people was unhappy and angry. and in my heart can't stop to herd the arventence of the fishermen of whales.
The spirits in the ship were very low, so I decide to do a specialy diner and another ludic thing.
The people laughed, enjoyed and sang. The crew members forgot our tragedy
The weather are very good. It is snowing but it is sunny.
Tomas and I are begin a sonwman, with a tie, a cup, a jacket, and a broom.
At the end of the day, everybody was drunkard, so, all the people of the boat will hangover tomorrow.
All of us with hangover from the previous day's feast
But he could not forget that everything that we were trapped in snow. I think that there is no longer any solution to speak with everyone back, and I have no hope.
We still have a lot of ice, the weather is nice and the sun is shining,exit out to remove some ice and then play something that with the headache and boredom.Forget a little bit of everything.
It was at night, we all gathered recently just dinner, and now we do not know what to do, many were already sleeping that he was tired and still awake playing cards. Am I going to sleep.
That is all.
(Sheila)
day 8
Today has begun with a storm. there were more snow than the previous days. the crew were very frightening.
I decided that the crew should remain in the ship, but a sailor became mad, and we had to enclose he in a room.
The sailor had a few very strange symptoms since he was striking strongly the door and the rest of the crew.
We didn't know that we had to do, we were very confused.
A few sailors wanted to throw he to the sea but the captain didn't leave them, since he was one any more of them.
And we go to sleep
(Ana)
Day 9:
The sailor became more crazy... all in the ship are confused. We do not know that to do. the sailor are starting being unbearable.
To the evening some of them went to speak with the captain to say to him that they could not support it, that was giving permission to throw it for the hut.
Finally the captain agreed and glided to get rid like it.
Five sailors did a hole in the ice. Others extracted it out of the ship. He started running until he sank.
this is all
But now there were many problems and most importantly, remain trapped in the ice and the boat began to hear noises and can no longer more ice pressure, the crew had no hopes, thought they would die without achieving cross Antartida.
Nevertheless, he continued, broke the ice around the boat, but was ineffective, the boat was slowly sinking, the crew quickly I find lifeboats to try to sail with them, time is not helping them began to snow it was almost impossible to escape this. ..
And the next morning ...
(Alba)
Day 11:
The next morning, we decided to do igloos, and we leave the boat. Our igloos are near the boat, because we were really tired and we can’t walk a lot.
We were really bored and sad, and we did a snow war when we’ve finished the igloos.
At night, we did photos of the crew and the dogs with spotlights that were in the boat. We were very, very tired and we went to sleep really soon.
The next day we woke up at six o’clock and we started our route without our dogs because they die and we ate them.
And…
(Mari)
We took some blankets for put over us and shelter from the cold. We opened the boats and sat on them together, to try no feel the cold.
We thought and thought, but nobody found any solution for come out of that freeze hell.
The only option we had for sail was waiting for the thaw, but even so, our ship didn’t was useful.
One of the sailors raised his idea: ten kilometers away, was a little port was frequent one time a week.
¿What shall we do? For the moment, we lay down on the boats and covered us with more blankets we found on the boat, tied for no blew away.
The cold is increasing and the crew’s desperation too. More of the crew are depressive and they believe that to die would be better than to continue suffering in this way.
We need a solution as soon as possible, but the crew’s half don’t accept the possibility of the nearby port, because they believe that they would die in the attempt. So now there is a rivalry between the crew's two halves.
I never saw so much fear in the eyes of anybody, it’s impossible! I can see to simple sight the worry in their faces, already many hopes don't stay and this interferes everything. We need an incentive, we need to believe that still there is a possibility, that still we can go out alive of this.
(Dani)
The 22 men who had remained on Seal Stew Island were rescued by Norbert vessel Domingas , commanded by Luis Felipe Risarón Campeón, August 30, 2007, after non attempt to survive, he failed because someone who was there for some strange reason, wanted to race him. Given that the entire crew of the Endurex survived, Packeltoss' decisions at this time continued to survive by his extraordinary leadership in extreme conditions. Then a German submarine was sailing half mile away. Packletoss thought that they coult help them but they were in war with the German Empire. But they had to risk theirselves to survive that bad weather.
We wanted to talk to them but I was afraid that they wanted to attack us. I was thinking to go with a white flag but I went with a black flag so they can see us. The submarine stopped and someone came out. He looked like a German officer, He had a very big and long "whisker". One of my men, Alonso Pitvsher started to laugh about him. I tell him to stop because he had a gun. I started to talk to him in English but he didn't understand, lucky for us Alonso Pitvsher was English but his father was German. He knew some German so he talked to him.
The officer invited us to the submarine. But the engine didn't start, we had a problem with the helix ...
So, our mechanic next to the submarine mechanic joined in order to fix the helix. In solved the problem when the captain of the large moustache is offered to us to the nearest port. Once there We bid farewell to them and us refuge in a tavern near the port where We ate and rested. We are trying to deal with some whalers so that We could lend his boat to continue our adventure ...
And that's all.
(Natalia)
Were unable to fix the problem until the next morning.
The next morning they went to fix it because it was easier to see small pieces that constituted the helix.
A few hours after the submarine had been like new.
An officer offered to take them to their destination, and so began a new journey.
Suddenly strong storms began ... We were more scared than ever.
Was not for less, as they feared the not knowing that we could find to leave that ship.
Suddenly the water calmed us and so, too.
In the shed everything was comfortable and can say that we were treated very well there. For it we are very grateful
(Míriam)
Later the storms began more strong. The ship was moving itself from a place to other one. And the sails were moving very much as if someone was wagging them. We were thinking that they would return to break. But lucky ultimately they did not break. The ship suddenly was started moving very much of the shocks of the waves.
One of the men fell to the water. Intentámos to rescue it ... we did everything possible but the current was taking it to him. We throw strings to him ... and more things to which it was possible to take ... but there was no way ... finally he remained caught between the waves and ended up by suffocating. We all were very nervous. But the captain got angry so much that put to shout and to put a bit of order. The storm and the waves stopped a bit. We were not afraid, because when we enter to the ship, we did it with the high well head. We were going many days in ships and were accustomed. Now for the present, we all can count through what we have lived, I hope that it is still like that.
(Noelia, 08/01/08)
This morning the weather is sunshiny but they had no beer left and they had no food left.
The sailor has afraid.
In the morning the all sailors they to call on food.
A few minutes later the capitan on a ship he has find food and beer!!
The sailors was happy , and celebrate the find food.
In the night the sailors they was a party , all was drinking and dancing.
The sailors is bored because the weather is snow.
Later the sailors they have cold and they to haven't the right sleep...
The next morning the weather is snow...
Day 20:
The next days in the Antartica were very difficult because the weather was very cold and we needed more drink and food.
We were stay in the boat, bored. Everyone did their work and no -one talked with no -one. The weather was very cold and it was snow and snow all day.
In my opinion the sailors were fight and I don't understand why. The rest of the day were pacific but a little tense. Everybody were strange.
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