Expedition starts
Due to retarded work on the Polarstern the departure is delayed - On Sunday, 11 November 2018, the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its homeport of Bremerhaven, bound for

PS116 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 11 - 18 November 2018
RV Polarstern left Bremerhaven on 11th November with the high tide around noon. Due to extensive necessary amendments in the shipyard, the departure

PS116 - Weekly Report No. 2 | 19 - 25 November 2018
The arrival of Polarstern in the port of Las Palmas took a little longer, because the dedicated berth was occupied by another vessel. She drifted

PS 117 - Weekly Report No 1 | 15 – 20 December 2018
As planned, Polarstern pushes away from the pier in Cape Town on 15 December at 4pm, taking off for her 117th expedition to the Antarctic.

PS117 - Weekly Report No. 4 | 13 - 20 January 2019.
Neumayer, finally! Polarstern took berth about 20 km north of the German Antarctic Station (officially named Neumayer Station III) at the extreme

aurait ete perdu. XVII of RV "Polarstern" in 1999. Ber. Polarforsch. 339: 28 pp. Soltwedel, T., Klages, M., Nokin, M. (2000). French ROV VICTOR 6000 first deployment from Polarstern. Sea Technology 4114: 51-53 [...] using the French Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) 'VICTOR 6000" onboard the German icebreaker RV "Polarstern". Long-term experiments had been started during that campaign and it was one intention of the cruise [...] premiere exploration a l'aide du ROV francais "VICTOR 6000" embarque sur le NI0 brise-glace allemand "Polarstern". Des experiences a long terme avaient ete mises en place a cette occasion et un des objectifs

active bubble discharge was found during the “Polarstern” expedition ARK-XXI/1b in August/September 2005 with EK60 recordings performed by R/V “Polarstern” (Damm pers. comm.). According to the surface [...] samples from different depth strata close to the seafloor. Some days before us the German icebreaker “Polarstern” was at our actual location and deployed a system which is called free-falling lander. The entire [...] first station west of Svalbard (Spitzbergen). At a water depth of 5400 m the German icebreaker “Polarstern” deployed another free-falling lander about four weeks ago. Approximately 1 mile ahead of this

free-falling system (bottom-lander) and an autonomous benthic crawler system deployed during RV POLARSTERN expeditions PS107 and PS108, respectively, in summer 2017. Another bottom-lander equipped with [...] and 2500 m, respectively, off Svalbard. The recovery of the two instruments is planned for the RV POLARSTERN cruise PS121 in summer 2019. Towards the end of the week we finally succeeded to recover our benthic

PS 117 – Weekly Report No. 5 | 21 - 27 January 2019.
Business as usual. Polarstern plows her way through the open waters of the Weddell Sea – the ice cover is at it minimum, subjectively at least –

some fuel. This provided a chance for all participants to stroll around the city. We also met FS Polarstern, which changed its crew and science party in between two cruises to the Weddell Sea. 9 am next