Antarctic Scientists

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Peter Curran puts scientists at the British Antarctic Survey under his anthropological lens. What are the passions and survival strategies of this ice-bound tribe? Peter meets the geologists who live in two-man tents for months in the Antarctic ice fields, hundreds of miles from nearest people. He also talks to a polar marine biologist about how she copes with months apart from her 3 year old son. Peter hears about the thrills, sights and sounds of diving under the sea ice, and glaciologist Rob Mulvaney reveals the nightlife to be had on the frozen continent, under the snow.