Dude I can't remember the last time I watched an entire 2 hour YouTube video! Loved this.

Plus the Catalina Express makes a mean post-dive bloody mary.

I joined Vast Mission Assurance almost a month ago. It's so exciting (and a bit scary) to be building this thing!

Thanks for all the great reporting over the years and best of luck in what I assume is your pivot to focusing exclusively on surfing business new 🏄

There was no winter machinist on station this past year so our utilities tech and I took on the fabrication (in addition to our normal jobs). I'm stoked with how it turned out and it's pretty neat that everyone visiting the South Pole over the next year will get to see it.

The 2025 marker includes miniature versions of the four main science labs at South Pole station: the Dark Sector Lab (South Pole Telescope and BICEP-3), the NOAA Atmospheric Research Observatory, MAPO (BICEP Array), and the IceCube Neutrino Detector.

Each year's pole marker is different and the winter crew can choose what sort of message they want to send with the design. With so many infrastructure challenges threatening the US Antarctic program these days we wanted to re-focus on the reason we were there in the first place: Science.