I Jumped Into Freezing Antarctic Waters | Ep 3 - ANTARCTICA SNAN
Hello Ji Hello Ji Welcome to day 5 I think I think it's day 5 So we woke up at 6.45am And we didn't have to take a bath Because we had to take polar plunge Yes, we had to go to the sea of Antarctica So we saved some 10-15 mins So we brushed our teeth, had breakfast And today we reached before time No, we didn't reach before time I completely forgot! Good morning from Hondius in Antarctica Hondius is the name of our ship If you don't know it yet It's awesome, it feels like home already We get a lot of food here Our weight has definitely increased It's 7.57am, we have a call at 8am And we are late again But it's okay, we can reach until 8:15 And this is our pant Waterproof pant Today our plan is The island in front of us is Danko Island It's a crazy name, Danko Island So our plan is to roam around in Zodiac After that we will land in Danko Island After that we will see penguins & trek in Danko Island And then And then we will take polar plunge Polar plunge means In Antarctica's cold water, in the middle of ice we will take a dip I don't know how much we will be able to do We will try our best We are determined Where are the shoes? It's good, right? The mic setup on the tripod Okay So we are late Our group has left It's 8:08, generally you've 15 minutes But today they sent everyone very early But it's okay, there are more people like us So we will go in the next group Today we have brought a waterproof bag Yesterday our bag was all wet We are late this time Today we are late But every time you don't know which Zodiac you will get We are a group of 8 people But we couldn't come together in one zodiac Yesterday we were 5-6 people together, but they divided us But till now we have taken 3 Zodiacs And one brother has been common Our Russian friend We have been together in 3 boats Now, every time We are the last ones We are in the blue group also We are always late Most important rule Don't stand up during driving That means even if things are getting exciting And there is a way of popping up And you want to have that shot Stay calm please I will do my best to position the Zodiac That you will have a good view All of you, okay Good morning We will roam in the Zodiac for 1.5 hours After that, that island Brother, it looks so bright Can you see people there? We will go there From the viewpoint We will see beautiful views I have seen the first whale today She is driving very fast Our previous drivers Didn't drive that fast She is driving very fast She looks like a heavy driver Wow He is really making a wave Wow He is dancing for us Let's see if it's curious It's below Look at this It's a whale It's resting a lot it is like me They just want to chill Let me tell you about these whales These are Humpback whales Their size is 40-50 feet Their weight is around 25000-30000 kg It's like a big Volvo bus Their pectoral fins with which they wave to us They can reach up to 16 feet They are very playful are known for breaching That's why they jump They also sing which can be heard underwater for miles i could only hear one song on the boat But let me show you a clip from the internet Aren't they amazing creatures? When the whales come out of the water Their tails look like this What's special is that Every whale's tail has a unique pattern A unique way to identify them There's a similar project called happywhale.com
In which you can upload your Whale's tail photo on the website And if that photo matches their database Then you can find out where that whale was seen before Or if it will be seen again in the future And if you want you can make a donation on the website And keep the name of your whale Just don't keep Adi, Arav, Ayan, Payan Like the children of Gurgaon Now as this lady told These whales are very curious When they see a human or a boat They approach them In fact, researchers believe that Whales like to see us as much as we like to see them And if they like you They will come to you again and again Whales liked us a lot on day 1 But today as soon as they see us They show their tail and go down Maybe they were not in the mood today Or maybe we didn't take a bath We didn't see so many whales today We saw 3-4 whales But yesterday we saw so many That we took it for granted Yesterday we saw so many whales Normally you don't see so many on the first day So your expectations must be very high Today I think Animal Kingdom's was on a holiday And not only whales, but other animals were also on a holiday Look at this. He is the top student of Life is Enjoy Academy He is doing nothing, just chilling. Literally There is food in front of him And they want to chill What a beautiful landscape Look at the color Look at the color of the ice And look at the glacier behind Once more What a beauty Beautiful This is not deep at all You can see the surface Look at the iceberg It's so small But the surface is very close You can see something below Since then there is a leopard seal Which is playing with us It's coming from below the zodiac It's coming from right next to us There was something weird as well I was more excited about it than the seal Apparently that is zoo plankton Finally Second landing on Antarctica We have to do things that we don't like in this landing, which is first hiking, which we don't like at all.
Second is jumping in the cold water, which we also don't like But I think this is travelling. We have to accept the challenge and together we can and we These are our blue zone friends with whom we have separated. Even the snow has started falling. We don't feel like climbing the mountain to be honest but we will do it. How was it? Very good. It's a little clean up there, so you will see a lot.
How much is up there? Yes, but it's very high. I don't feel like walking anymore. It will be fun. You must go. It's not like that.
You will have to go. Also, I need to pee. Will have to wait for 2 hours Yes, that's the problem.
So it's not allowed to pee here. You can do it on the ship. And it's taking a lot of effort to go on the ship. Is the sun coming from there? The sun will come. It will be fun. Penguins are crazy Their walk is so funny You can keep looking at them all day His walk is so funny.
Oh! They're chilling! Look at that. They're all chilling Life is enjoy. Look, snow is falling here.
It's a very dangerous weather. There are warm tones suddenly. The sun is coming from there.
If the sun comes, it will be fun. It's so beautiful. There is a slight snowfall. So beautiful.
Not much left. Whenever we land here, the crew members put up these red poles We have to follow this mostly. Because here, there are crevasses You can fall in it. So follow it quietly. If you fall, who will pick you up? It's the last stretch. What a view.
Very Antarctica-like. Look there. Snow is falling here.
Look at the penguins. Crazy scenes. Look at the bird. It's chilling. It looks like their leader.
Is the leader of the penguins a bird? It means it's a bird of some other breed. What you saw in the middle. You could see the sun there. It was just for 2 minutes.
That was that spot. You can't see anything there. You won't even see the ship in a while.
You can never trust Instagram followers & Antarctic weather So we have Prijesh Prijesh, show them the flag. Prijesh has been living in the USA for the past 12-13 years. But look, he's carrying the flag. Open the flag. Our flag. Yeah.
Vande Mataram. Life is enjoy. How much further? 15 minutes.
15 minutes more? How much further? We have to go from here and take a round track. Last stretch. We made it to Antarctica.
Life is enjoy. Look, that's the glacier. It's so beautiful. That's the glacier. And that's the glacier. Wow.
The top view was 360 degrees. And you can't see anything in 360. Because the weather was so bad. But every 5 minutes I was looking back. And it was so surreal.
It felt like some VFX or a green screen. It cannot be a real world. There were video games like this. There were missions where you were in the middle. It feels like we're in Antarctica.
We can't go from here. Because we might get stuck. It's a 360 degree view. But you can't see anything. Because of the weather.
It's not Bahamas. It's Antarctica. What is this place, man? The presentation said how Antarctica would look without ice.
There are so many rivers. There are 250 lakes. One lake is 250 km long. There are 400 lakes. There is 1-2 km of ice on the entire ecosystem. I thought it's crazy.
We saw the ice. There is a lot of ice here. I don't know. how much it was before climate change But now there is a lot of ice. We have seen for this entire lifetime. I don't feel like going.
And it's not cold. It's not cold at all. It's a beautiful frame. There are beautiful frames everywhere.
I don't think there is a place like this. The size of the glacier. There are glaciers everywhere. I mean, what a size.
I think if I didn't have to pee, I would enjoy more Beautiful. I thought, how come there are no penguins? Look at this It's chilling. They are enjoying a lot.
How is he looking? I think we should go. The wind is also blowing. The weather has become very bad.
And now they have to do polar plunge. Polar plunge in this weather is crazy I was hiking very well. There were some ladies in the middle, I even helped them Because it was very slippery. But I went up very well. I came down very well. Very fast and very safe.
And in the end, there were a lot of penguins near the beach. And there are a lot of poop on the penguins. In the meantime, one more thing happened. We slipped on ice & fell on the penguin poop. Had to wash it, now one glove is wet Other glove I already lost. And there was poop on the remaining glove.
So I washed it with water. And it got wet. And we got cold. The polar plunge has started. Let's see how people are going. They are enjoying a lot.
So I think, let's do it. I'm not sure if we should do it yet. But let's do it. We should do this activity once in our life. So the video of polar plunge came out very bad. The experience was very good.
we will come to that later Because it was so cold. So the natural reaction of the body came out Yes, we did it. I mean, I jumped like this. I jumped and went inside. Then the body was numb And I didn't feel anything for 2 seconds. Because the body didn't understand what happened.
When I felt, I said, this is very cold. After that, I ran out of here. But the problem was, the gravel was very strong. the body & feet were cold & gravel was very hard. So it was so painful that I couldn't come back.
I was struggling. But it was fun. It feels so good. So now we can go 2-3 times. Once you go, there is no load after that.
Now the system is wet inside. So we have to go to the ship quickly. Otherwise, we can get sick. So our route from Ushuaia. Last 2 days we came like this Today we are here Paradise Bay. And I think the ship is still standing in Paradise Bay.
But the weather doesn't look like that of Paradise. Look at the snow. So this tour is majorly whale watching tour. The ship parks at different places. And then you take Zodiac. and go for either landings or whale or wildlife watching but I think the craziest part is the landscape, everything is white, the size of the glaciers is crazy! I have seen a lot of big glaciers The Southern Patagonia Ice Fields are the biggest after Antarctica & Greenland There is a glacier there - Perito Moreno Glacier one of the craziest glaciers of the world It's snowing a lot now That glacier is nothing here And we're not even at the main place Antarctica is very big & we are just touching a tip.
So I think the sheer size of it, the sheer volume of the ice & snow it's just absolutely crazy, it's just that you are standing at these places and then you come in the ship and you are drinking good beer and I mean full five-course menu, I mean food is so crazy! exotic meats, exotic cheese and daily changing desserts I think this is definitely a privilege and this tour this entire expedition thing which has luxury and comfort and a sense of great adventure. It's not my type of travel but I am really enjoying it I mean this is very very beautiful they have landed the Zodiacs Now they can announce anytime to go Let's see from here, the crane is running to take down the Zodiac they are doing it on both sides, one side is this, it's it's coming down here and the other one is on this side how are they receiving it down there? They have taken it down, ok so all are sitting in that. one of them will get transferred they will come from this, this is a very beautiful frame So now my group had changed, right? blue group had their first landing, then the red group. and when the red group had their landing So the blue group's Zodiac tour had a crazy, like yesterday the leopard and the penguin hunt Today was a very successful hunt leopard seal got hold of a penguin I saw the videos, it was giving a slam dunk it was a crazy scene, he caught the penguin and he is slam dunking it! he is throwing it from there to there and it's head got separated, then a bird came from above and took the head and the seal took the rest, it was a BBC earth scene. Then we had lunch and left for Paradise Bay Some people didn't go in the evening because people think you see whales, seals For me it was like I want to go out we will go out as much as we can I mean whatever the weather is, whether it's good or bad I don't know when we will come back in life but I want to just like, if it's Antarctica, it will be cold, right? so I want to experience it Really feels like we're in Antarctica goodbye again, mothership first of all, there is a research center of Argentina so we went to see it from outside next station Their life is very interesting So we started talking about such research centers so our Zodiac's captain told us a great story few years back Few years ago, in one of the research centers there was a cook or a chef he was on duty he was on duty for 16 months for 2 seasons So now, he didn't get a leave and then they called him and they told him he has to stay another winter which meant another 6 or 8 months and what happens in winter because Antarctica freezes so much that the continent doubles in winters so the ships can't come. you can't reach here in winter? Not with a ship! Flights may come But he became very angry Imagine staying here for whole winter when its dark, it will be minus 70-80 degrees He set the research center on fire he set the research center on FIRE! and then everyone got to leave it's dinner time oh no, there's a fight ! Not dinner, the bird is enjoying late lunch This bird looks like in cartoons, there's an evil bird I mean it looks evil from the face Argentina research center has been taken over Now it's Gentoo Research Center and why is this called a paradise bay? So this is the place where the imperial shacks also had their nesting sites here you can still see some pairs of them some movement in the rock yeah After that we went to the glacier I mean the glaciers here A new valley has opened up with new mountains ! Look at the size of the mountains enormous How big this is! look at the ice everywhere look at the glacier I don't know how didi is maneuvering in the middle of this.
Look the wall of that glacier what a massive scale it's like Perito Moreno the glacier in Chile and there are so many everywhere There are so many glaciers Glaciers are crazy! They parked the Zodiac on one side They turned off the engine & asked us to stay quiet for 5 mins Just enjoy the silence of Antarctica it was indeed very very beautiful there was not much silence, someone was moving every 10s See this! people were moving so much but you could hear everything like water, ice crackling somewhere far away in the glacier the ice is breaking the sound of water. There is no sound at all! For a very brief moment we enjoyed the silence of Antarctica this is a salp. S-A-L-P and it is plankton which means it is an animal which drifts, it doesn't move by itself, it's not strong enough to move against currents so it drifts in the ocean and you can see this red part here, it's its stomach and it's a big filter apparatus If anybody wants to hold it it's really cool so is that male and female? no, it's asexual and at one point it fertilizes itself Who eats it? Whales, Penguins. people get excited to go out but it's cold and challenging evnronment first two days, we reached Antarctica it was a build-up for many months that they're going to Antarctica! and now there is good comfort in the ship but it's a cruise it's cold, it's snowy, it's windy it's challenging 堐代ور Ivan Frank broke highest challenge means to run the wall. A lot of hard works to run that. We found the problem! Nobody could find the problem because of e-mails, people were going through a break-down.
After that, we returned back before due time. One of our friends had to pee, we had to come back to drop him. Everyone thought it's okay, we have seen everything. So let's go inside, we will get released soon. Tomorrow we are going, in the first half we are going to another place.
I forgot the name, but we will see wildlife there too. And in the second half, they are taking us to a portal point. Its name seems very interesting. So in the portal point, till now, the place where we were landing, we were not allowed to even sit there.
So it happens a little that you are just watching and observing. You don't get the enjoyment. So there is a small island there.
So they said, we will do the landing there and you are allowed to sit. And you have to chill and enjoy there. Play with the snow and slide. And after that, there is a special night tomorrow. We will come back from there, so it's a barbeque night. And we have been told to stay warmly dressed.
So the barbeque will take place on the deck outside. So it's very good. The cruise, not the cruise, it's an expedition. But the whole system of the boat, I love it. I will miss it. I mean, I was feeling bad today that half of the trip is left. But it's okay, I think that is it.
I think maybe I didn't shoot that much today. So I think we may mix two days in one video. But for now, from day 5, good night, bye bye. Life is enjoy. Life is enjoy.
2025-05-06 20:14
