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Sixty feet (and sixty degrees) below
2014-12-26
A few storeys beneath the South Pole Station are a series of subterranean service tunnels, cut through the ice using a purpose-designed tunneling machine prior to the construction of the elevated station. The tunnels accommodate water and sewage connections to and from the rod wells: 500ft (150m) deep caverns which are melted to produce water, and then filled with sewage. As the stickers say this season, "If you're not drinking rod well #3, you're drinking #1 or #2". The "exit" sign points to one of several wooden ladders leading to escape hatches on the surface. However, it seems that somebody has left this one open, and the shaft has filled with snowdrift.
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Sixty feet (and sixty degrees) below
2014-12-26
A few storeys beneath the South Pole Station are a series of subterranean service tunnels, cut through the ice using a purpose-designed tunneling machine prior to the construction of the elevated station. The tunnels accommodate water and sewage connections to and from the rod wells: 500ft (150m) deep caverns which are melted to produce water, and then filled with sewage. As the stickers say this season, "If you're not drinking rod well #3, you're drinking #1 or #2". The "exit" sign points to one of several wooden ladders leading to escape hatches on the surface. However, it seems that somebody has left this one open, and the shaft has filled with snowdrift.
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