Iceberg Alley
That is not to say that exploring a place like Antarctica’s underside is an easy task! Such projects require some of the brightest minds in the related fields, tons of funding, and a lot of time. To begin with, the explorers were tasked with establishing the safest and most efficient location to begin the drop. Finally, a place named “Iceberg Alley” was chosen. This might sound like a humorous name, but this area had a great reason to come to be known as such.
Crushing Obstacles
This “alley” makes up a channel bordering the frosty Peninsula’s most north-reaching areas. This spread of ocean is ringed by large hunks of moving ice, where slabs of ice as big as cars drift along next to monsters that stretch on for around 600 square meters. This meant that sailing through such hazardous terrain would be a highly risky mission, one which only the most knowledgeable veterans of Antarctica’s professionals could navigate. Who could rise to the challenge?