The voyage culminated with a surfacing on 18 April at the North Pole.
Fortunately the weather was perfect with a nearly clear blue sky and no
wind.
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Me beside the submarine after surfacing at the North Pole.
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I took along a SAMS flag to be flown at the North Pole but
didn't have a flag pole!
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Enjoying real air after 4 weeks in the submarine.
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HMS Tireless tied up alongside an ice floe. We were fortunate
to find a stretch of open water (lead) within a few miles of the
pole.
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Some of the crew out on an ice ridge with Tireless in the background.
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Me on the narrow deck of the submarine.
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The SAMS flag with HMS Tireless in the background.
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Tireless in the lead with some of the crew outside.
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Our lead was surrounded on all sides by some dramatic first-year
ice ridges. These were around 5 metres high and extended as keels beyond
20 metres below the water.
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Nick at our home-made North Pole.
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Another photo of me at the North Pole with HMS Tireless in
the background.
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Barry Campbell, our US Ice Pilot, from the Arctic Submarine Laboratory.
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View across the lead showing finger rafting in the thin nilas
ice and USS Hampton in the background.
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IRIS