Latest / Project Podcast / Endurance22: Lessons from the project to discover Ernest Shackleton's lost ship
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- 0:08Welcome to the IPM podcast. APM is the childhood body for
- 0:12the project profession. My name is Emma divita and I'm
- 0:15the editor of project apm's quarterly journal and your host
- 0:19today. I'm speaking to Nico, Vincent
- 0:22subsea project manager of the endurance, 22 Expedition that on
- 0:25the 5th of March this year. Found the wreck of endurance sir
- 0:29Ernest Shackleton Owens ship which sank off the coast of
- 0:31Antarctica hundred and seven years ago.
- 0:34The wreckage was discovered at a depth of three thousand and
- 0:37eight meters around for miles south of where it was reported
- 0:40to have been lost by frankerz endurance's captain in 1915
- 0:45endurance. 22, set off from Cape Town in February, this year,
- 0:50with a team of 63 people, plus the crew aboard, the South
- 0:53African Icebreaker, a glass. To the Expedition has reportedly
- 0:57cost around 7.6 million pounds. And this podcast, Snicker
- 1:02explains how the project team used to sob Sabretooth hybrid
- 1:06underwater search vehicles to find the Shipwreck.
- 1:09One of the most complex subsea projects ever undertaken.
- 1:13He spent 30 years recovering, deep-sea wrecks, and gives us
- 1:16his project management insights. And what it takes to prepare for
- 1:19a once-in-a-lifetime project like this, how it feels to see
- 1:22such a piece of history and the lessons he takes away from the
- 1:26successful project. Welcome Nico.
- 1:35Thank you for giving us your time, really interested in
- 1:37finding out more about endurance. 22, would you like to
- 1:41start by giving us an overview of the project?
- 1:43What its mission was the goals deliverables.
- 1:46Milestones, how long you've been working on this?
- 1:49The purpose of endurance. 22 was to discover the wreck of the
- 1:54endurance lost in 1915 by the Expedition led by Sir, Ernest
- 1:59Shackleton. And then to deliver a full
- 2:03survey of the wreck to roll all science analyzes for for the
- 2:08next decades because it's so much complicated to go there.
- 2:11Can you tell us where it where it is so rich?
- 2:14So, it's in the Antarctic, but can you describe the condition
- 2:18sir? It's is in them where they'll
- 2:21see, which is one of the most complicated see of the world,
- 2:25because there is a lot of highs see highs on this area, and they
- 2:31are quite unpredictable. And this is something which have
- 2:34been generated a lot of issue by the way.
- 2:37So which generate, the reason why this wreck was the most
- 2:41complicated to find not because she was really lost, but the
- 2:49access to the area is so, so, so complicated.
- 2:52So I have been in charge to lead all operation as soon as the
- 2:56vessel arrived on site and the trust asked to join cheers.
- 3:01The Expedition leader to lead above the surface and me to
- 3:05drive all operation Under the Sea.
- 3:08However, to run operation plan. I was obliged to control surface
- 3:12support as well. So it was including this so
- 3:14navigation, and the copter flight plan.
- 3:17I scam strategy and all of the Quest.
- 3:19I like science and major for example, because the media and
- 3:23education was quite important for this project, the project
- 3:27primary task. As I just mentioned, was to look
- 3:29at the endurance. But as the rack is protected by
- 3:33the Antarctic treaty, we have been forbidden to touch
- 3:37anything, so we needed to produce.
- 3:39I have a solution survey of the rack to allow science and
- 3:42archaeologists to produce science report.
- 3:45The project schedule for me started in February 20, 19.
- 3:51When the previous expedition in Los the auv, an autonomous
- 3:55underwater vehicle own site. And I have been a immediately
- 4:00contacted to bit new solution. So over two years has suggested
- 4:06some option and that finally convinced me to point as project
- 4:11manager on August 20, So the first step has been to launch
- 4:17the manufacturing of the subtools, the auv.
- 4:20Yeah. Tell us more about the
- 4:21saber-tooth. Well this happens to us is the
- 4:25VAC or which is about to join 3,000 meters.
- 4:31It's an auv which is manufactured, by Sub in Sweden
- 4:38and the main reason why we choose that vehicle.
- 4:41It's because it's quite a Still one, it might be tasered or not.
- 4:48And usually this kind of vehicle is fully autonomous and flying
- 4:54fully autonomous underwater. But for this project, we asked
- 4:58to use a Taser at one, because this is a lesson learned from
- 5:022019, which was to keep a permanent control and it
- 5:07anticipate, emergency ascent and incident.
- 5:10And that's really a game changer on the highs.
- 5:14So you started work on this project three years ago, in the
- 5:17wake of a previous attempt to ReDiscover endurance.
- 5:24So can you explain just give an overview of do three years, what
- 5:29does that involve? So imagine I heard there were
- 5:31trials in France for the technology like how much I
- 5:35imagine 90% of that time was actually preparing.
- 5:39Yeah. Itís been a lot a long way
- 5:43because, um, I started to build the back on in September 20 and
- 5:51I led the manufacturing from scratch up to up to September
- 5:5621. It, it was almost a year, but as
- 5:59well in December 20, I started to build as well.
- 6:02The high scam solution because it has tasked to be ready for
- 6:05any option compatible with any condition of ice.
- 6:08We are not sure of what kind of eyes we may face.
- 6:12So we were not sure that we may access to the area to the field
- 6:16where the vessel so solution using ice Camp was ready.
- 6:21Then spring, 21. I started to assembly all
- 6:24procedures to complete full scope of work because scope of
- 6:27work has to be ready for six months before the operation.
- 6:31It was ready for August 21. And in September 21, we started
- 6:38we started Yeah, the f80 if it is of the vehicle and the
- 6:44extended trials because we got so much better, so much sensors
- 6:48on the back, all that we ask at extended trials, then we came in
- 6:52France as you just mentioned and act about 21 to conductive sea
- 6:57trials. The purpose of the deep sea
- 6:59trials was to send vehicle at the maximum depth that we would
- 7:06have on the field and be ready to have anticipate any failure
- 7:11that the vacuum has suffered. And finally we got ice ice
- 7:16operation simulations in October 21 as well.
- 7:21We tried to deploy ice camp on honest entity guys.
- 7:28It has been quite fun and we as well deploy our launch and
- 7:33Recovery ice launch and recovery system overall barge to look, if
- 7:37we are able to launch the God because you have to keep in mind
- 7:40that to reduce time to drill the eyes, which might be up to 5 m
- 7:44sickness and make the decision to build a huge drill Holger
- 7:49that we built from scratch as well and to reduce Time, Lord
- 7:53willing, we make the decision to launch the vehicle vertically.
- 7:56So you have to imagine that we have a card which is the size
- 7:59and the weight of your own car and we got the and all
- 8:03positives. What to move it up to two men,
- 8:06two meters from the ground. Move it It vertically and launch
- 8:10it through 5 m, i sickness. So all of these require a lot of
- 8:15engineering and then we have to recover it and the opposite way,
- 8:18if you see my point. So, finally make all these
- 8:22trials and we send all equipment in, in South Africa, in December
- 8:2821, mobilizing in January 22 in South Africa.
- 8:34In Cape Town and left, early, February 22.
- 8:38And lest had that covid-19 has been a real interference on this
- 8:44plan mainly on shipment and procurement which because Global
- 8:50shortage was everywhere. So it's generated so much so
- 8:54much interference too many where each each project must be so
- 8:58unique and so rare. And so complex that you have to
- 9:02come with an open mind that that can find Creative Solutions or
- 9:07be inevitable. Or I guess you have to have that
- 9:12mindset that approach to work on a project like this.
- 9:16Absolutely. And Angeles, 22 is a good
- 9:20example of that. I spent a year to build
- 9:23procedures scope of work. That's plan survey planning
- 9:26deployment on nice helicopter. Flight plans time Computing
- 9:30schedules. And finally the reason why I
- 9:33wasn't bored is because we were all open that.
- 9:39Nothing will be run as expected the the condition, the unfilled,
- 9:44mental condition on site, are so complicated that you cannot
- 9:48anticipate all. All all scenarios.
- 9:51Even if you have many ideas or what you will suffer if I miss
- 9:56is that wall. Yeah, and you cannot anticipate
- 10:00everything and it has been talking to reason why I have
- 10:02been on board because usually on the substantive trees, a project
- 10:04manager, stay on the office and you have a straight link with
- 10:08what we call the Rapture manager and the offshore manager is just
- 10:14make the make the work of shore here and the complexity of the
- 10:20variables that we faced met obligations that I was on board.
- 10:24So as I like to say, I was walking with my option manager
- 10:29which were on the next door, but as I like to say, I was still
- 10:35Huli Huli the plan and it was run the plan.
- 10:38Yeah. But so okay and when you I'm
- 10:44interested because you must have had a team that reported to you,
- 10:48how big was that team? Or was it just a couple of
- 10:51people find you once 22? We were 1660.
- 10:57Okay. See you leading a team of 16?
- 11:00How do you create a team around you?
- 11:03For this kind of project that is cohesive that can react to To
- 11:08the unexpected. Is there any particular?
- 11:11So I guess what I met trying to understand is how do you lead a
- 11:16project team that has to be inevitable?
- 11:19That has to think on its feet that has to deal with the
- 11:23unexpected. The teams that I chosen was
- 11:29chosen for several reasons. The first one is their skills.
- 11:34Of course, we got the requirement to have several
- 11:39different skills for these people, but in editions, I walk
- 11:44with the same kind of people since quite a long time almost
- 11:5020 years. And the reason of that is that
- 11:54because we have some Relationship, which is extremely
- 11:57strong each other, and all these people, they are aware, and they
- 12:03are and this is a normal way for them to work on this kind of
- 12:07project where you have to be very, very close each other.
- 12:12And the consequence of that is that most of these people are
- 12:16like a family. And, and this is a culture which
- 12:19is quite important for us. Because, usually again on the
- 12:23subject, this tree also, So expertise really disconnected
- 12:28from from each other. And people are other strong
- 12:31task, very important task and they do not look at what the
- 12:34hoses to on when you are doing project like this.
- 12:37This is the opposite. People have to be very strong
- 12:42Connections in between each other and the leadership is
- 12:46switching from a guy to the other according the expertise.
- 12:50But whatever is the walk. Everybody is walking by hands.
- 12:53Okay, so that means that At your boss of the morning because you
- 12:57drive, you drive an auv, be can become your, your support on the
- 13:02afternoon because you do electronics.
- 13:04So, and this is with that way. Something that allowed me to
- 13:08build a very, very strong, strong connection between
- 13:11people. And even if our chain of command
- 13:15is quite strong, the people have a lot of freedom inside the team
- 13:21because they know that when we record the expertise they will
- 13:24have three hands. So so that's pretty thing.
- 13:28A very very strong relationship. Okay.
- 13:32Are you a trained project manager?
- 13:34Do you have project management? Qualifications, that's a good
- 13:38question and the answer is no, I thought I thought that might be.
- 13:43So have you how have you learnt the project management side of
- 13:49things? I started my career in the
- 13:52French company called Comics which at that time was the world
- 13:57leader in the steps industry and most efficient in oil and gas
- 14:01and the culture of the end of the company was to look at each
- 14:07people individually and purge them on their level of
- 14:10expertise. Apparently, I got some leading
- 14:16skills immediately, which have been detect and I have been
- 14:20pushed on 29 and I followed the internal training in the company
- 14:24to step after step. Okay?
- 14:27And then the company has been absorbed by another group, and
- 14:30the group became Higher, and Higher, and Higher and corn.
- 14:34Now, sub c 7, which is one of the most important subsequent
- 14:38director of the world. So you learn, you learn from the
- 14:42company and from the project and that it has been my path.
- 14:45And I must admit, I never follow any training and never follow
- 14:49any. Educational for that.
- 14:52I have been always learning on my own project after project and
- 14:57what have you been your biggest lessons are from about project
- 15:00management, how to manage projects.
- 15:02I think that most fishing on the project that I do, because which
- 15:06is, which are unusual. No special one, you have to keep
- 15:10what, what is the final goal? And when you know what is the
- 15:14final goal, you have to involve your team to this final goal and
- 15:18you have to to drive them to have to keep in mind this final
- 15:24goal and on their own level of expertise, which is all part of
- 15:28the project and you must always keep in mind and always be
- 15:33extremely versatile to absorb any, an expectation that you
- 15:39have to manage to keep that goal.
- 15:42I say you that because especially project can be quite
- 15:45different. For example, I am consultant
- 15:48from from the French investigation for any aircraft
- 15:54incident in car deep water. Okay?
- 15:58When you have this kind of jobs is extremely different than
- 16:02searching the endurance or searching submarine for Navy's,
- 16:07because my team phone as well, the Hassan one, Fans summer in
- 16:13Me. Now from the French navy which
- 16:15has been lost since 1968. And when you focus on this kind
- 16:20of project, the expectation of the client for my sis with might
- 16:25be quite different. So the to keep the goal is quite
- 16:28important actually because you give us an idea of what it was
- 16:31like to be on deck and and and how you what's it like to be in
- 16:35a project team at such Close Quarters and under such
- 16:40pressure. What's that noise?
- 16:42Like as a project leader to manage.
- 16:44And what are the? What are the challenges?
- 16:46Advantage, when you walk with Rick on people, is that you knew
- 16:52you knew them. They know you went as well as,
- 16:56you know, each other. That's a low-wing to have
- 17:00automatic balance that you do not have to manage, okay?
- 17:04So, and when you are in difficult, constraint, as you
- 17:09just mentioned, which is what that we live all together during
- 17:14months and months, which is Is something normal for us because
- 17:19we do that or all the year. But for underwent, 22, in
- 17:24addition, we were on an icebreaker.
- 17:27And we were on a product area which is quite unusual for us.
- 17:33So we have been obliged to adapt herself to the other people.
- 17:37For example, we got a lot of scientists on board, the vessel
- 17:41how many people on the vessel the Expedition team was 65.
- 17:46And the crew 45 also. 663 not 65 and subsea Department was 16 but
- 17:57we got as well a full team of any copter pilot and technician.
- 18:03We got a full science team which conducted additional science in
- 18:08parallel of inseam ups with our operations and we got as well as
- 18:13a full media team which make a lot of Things to build a
- 18:17documentary, all of these have to have to be layer on top of
- 18:22what we do usually. So here the challenge was to
- 18:26manage your own usual activities with all these people for who is
- 18:31not something normal. And, and it's from time to time
- 18:37this is generated quite difference is because these
- 18:39people, the come up short one or two times per year as the it, we
- 18:46are offshore the full year so like the crew.
- 18:51And so we have to adapt all ourselves to work together.
- 18:58But the life on board is quite between each other.
- 19:01It's quite something that we are ready for.
- 19:06We run, watch of 12 hours on 12 hours of for example.
- 19:11Okay? So the full team is organized to
- 19:13work 12 hours per day on the Undone an entrance, 22.
- 19:19Most of the guy made a huge over time, not because only we got
- 19:23issues the first days, but because the loved what they do.
- 19:27Okay, so even if we Face several equipment failure, even if we
- 19:33have an incident, even if it's not working properly, even if
- 19:37it's hard, even if they are cold, if you are able to work on
- 19:42something, which is so much exciting attractive.
- 19:46People respond on their own most specially if they like each
- 19:49other. I'm not sure if it is replying
- 19:52to the your initial question. No, this is all very interesting
- 19:56because you will highly motivated.
- 19:58I think actually the obvious question to ask is, when you
- 20:02first found the wreck, what did can you talk us through?
- 20:07What it was like to actually to see it and was it what you
- 20:11imagined or what did it feel like we're searching the
- 20:16DirectBuy, side-scan sonar. It's a device which looking at
- 20:21the seabed by an acoustic purse, each side, each side of the
- 20:25vehicle. So it's reproducing.
- 20:29A cbet imagery which is equal for this project at almost two
- 20:35mice, a Channel of almost 1, nautical miles.
- 20:39And on this images you can recognize rocks, sand mud,
- 20:46Right. So it's quite detailed.
- 20:48Yeah. And you need very, very skilled
- 20:51people to, to analyze images because this is It's.
- 20:56So now imagine it's not video. Let me explain its like if
- 20:59you're flying on an aircraft on the, on the desert, okay?
- 21:04And with the the sun which coming down, you can find what
- 21:08is high of the of the dunes, thanks to the length of the
- 21:12Shadow. Okay?
- 21:14That's exactly the same that except that we Do not using
- 21:17light, but, but Acoustics. So it's with shadows and legs of
- 21:20Shadows. That you may say, if you are
- 21:23find a wreck or rock or something else here on entrance
- 21:2722, the first heat give it gave us a lot of Joy's many as
- 21:33because it was so close to the captain Worsley put initial
- 21:37position but finally it was a new debris and not the full ship
- 21:44full vessel on the Last two. Everybody was extremely excited
- 21:49the but unfortunately it was a deception because just the a
- 21:53breeze on the rag. So when we found the wreck on
- 21:55the second heat, I pressurize the team to stay very concerned,
- 22:00right? Very professional and very
- 22:02quiet. So I said to them, I want
- 22:07everybody to some quiet. Until we have not only a sauna
- 22:10heat, but visual confirmation on the video camera because you
- 22:15have to fly with the vehicle. All come back, make a
- 22:17circumcision, a hint in sana'a, resolution.
- 22:20And then, finally, come back with to fly on it for the video
- 22:26shorting. So we got at least two hours
- 22:30between the 1st and a heat and the video confirmation Cinema,
- 22:34spend slice two hours of your life.
- 22:36Probably, I was absolutely. But the guys, the guys was
- 22:41absolutely sure. Yeah.
- 22:43I got a son, an analyst on my side And this sauna analyst is
- 22:48maybe one of the top five in the world in sana'a analyzing and I
- 22:53was looking in his eyes and he smiled.
- 22:56So I was quite sure, but when we got the first video shooting
- 23:03footage, it was an accomplishment in the and great
- 23:07relief and believe me, we saw the wreck, maybe 22 seconds and
- 23:12I said, okay go up. And then but the reason why is
- 23:17that we were pushing the batteries, I was asking how UV
- 23:22saboteurs pie that I want to see the with the camera I want to
- 23:25end. It was already saying I'm low
- 23:27batteries, I'm low batteries, I'm low batteries.
- 23:30So the first first footage was very, very short.
- 23:35But it was absolutely absolutely amazing how into the wreck.
- 23:40Could you go, could you just see in terms of the video, just the
- 23:44outside, or could you go right into the wreck?
- 23:48Find you a nice, 22, our package of payload including cameras was
- 23:54not allowing to look inside. However, we got four kids, still
- 23:59camera geography and said, which will hollowing to produce.
- 24:05Absolutely wonderful. As 3D model like a
- 24:09photogrametry. In addition we got laser leader
- 24:13which will allow us to have photogrammetry, which we have
- 24:16one millimeter resolution, but to going inside the rack, we
- 24:22will need to come back with extra devising.
- 24:24It's a, is that a plan? Can you do that?
- 24:26Is that something that might happen?
- 24:28Well, plenty people asking me the question already and my
- 24:33answer is yes, I have Plan. So I try to always have a plan
- 24:39you know because that's that's a purpose and to come back on
- 24:44project management and Isis is when you face difficulties, you
- 24:48have in your brain to have already two or three plants when
- 24:52we fall for the next issue. I personally would have been the
- 24:57highs and the lows. So I guess by Lowe's I mean the
- 25:02probably maybe the most stressful times or the hardest
- 25:05times of working on endurance. 22 eyes, of course, the
- 25:11discovery lows as a very long list of you.
- 25:14An extra fiver you could do a part two.
- 25:17Yes it's days. Was a stressful time.
- 25:23Okay. You have to keep in mind that
- 25:26the previous team lost the vacuole after two, Dives.
- 25:30Okay, so my goal was not only to find engines but to come back
- 25:34with my vehicle. Okay, we got a team agencia,
- 25:38sent over 32 Dives but seeing the vehicle back on Deck.
- 25:43After last last dive with full scope accomplished, has been an
- 25:49extremely good time, believe me. It has been Most most I stand
- 25:56for me because it was an achievement.
- 25:59We made it. Okay, and we made it without
- 26:02failure. So for me, frankly, the
- 26:06discovery is I point, but complete job with everything on
- 26:12board without any incident and with all people in good in good
- 26:17health has been very good as well and more specially because
- 26:20with, they faced the worst condition the Worst condition.
- 26:25You have to imagine that we got - 22 with 35 knots of wind,
- 26:30which is equivalent of minus 40 degrees.
- 26:33The equipment was freezing on Deck, the people was absolutely
- 26:37freezing on day. They never say nothing.
- 26:40They they accomplished a huge great work.
- 26:45And I am very proud about them and you must imagine that was so
- 26:51cold. General so much issue that we
- 26:54call Guys from the highest camp and they help us to build tent
- 26:58on vessel back deck with with eater with eater on it to keep
- 27:04our equipment. Warm enough to die.
- 27:08For so why then was freezing and we got bigger issues, and we
- 27:13spending time to repair before dive.
- 27:16It has been extremely complicated.
- 27:18So the the people achievement is huge.
- 27:24What? What have been the lessons that
- 27:26you've learned from this mission that you will then apply to
- 27:30other other projects that you work on.
- 27:36Against a nice, a lot of listeners.
- 27:38The main reason is that it has been a world record.
- 27:42The seabed survey over fixed location under under drifting
- 27:47highs is a world record. We invent almost everything from
- 27:52scratch. So the listen earn over polar
- 27:55environment is a huge list, huge one, and nobody made that before
- 28:01you have to keep in mind that until now people doing a UV on
- 28:04The highs was launching an opponent, okay?
- 28:07And got a recovery Point already, prepare its and that's
- 28:13the reason why the Canadian people are what we call on this.
- 28:17But on our side we were launching on the position, which
- 28:22is optimized to cover a fixed location and then we drift with
- 28:26ice. So, the recovery point was
- 28:29unknown, we're not able to anticipate where we will recover
- 28:33the vehicle and Time to time. We are up 24, nautical miles
- 28:37from the launch point and all of this to make it worked as been
- 28:42invent. And the listen learn from this
- 28:45is absolutely huge. And the consequence is on,
- 28:49listen on the project management is as well.
- 28:51Extremely huge affair with one project management lesson that
- 28:57you would want to share what that was because you've been
- 29:00doing this for 30 years. And still, you're learning,
- 29:02still you're learning about how to run, On projects like this
- 29:05manage lead is. So is there one lesson in
- 29:07particular Springs to mind? I need to remember the warning
- 29:13set by. So let's check it in himself.
- 29:17He said and difficulties are just things to overcome after
- 29:23all. Have you ever met a challenge
- 29:26that? Just he thought this is.
- 29:28I can't, I just just no way around this.
- 29:32I think 122, as soon as we arrived a nice, I was sure that
- 29:37helicopter on the primeknit was impossible and I spent a lot of
- 29:41time and work on this and, but as soon as we the Icebreaker
- 29:46start to arrived on ice and stood straight away, that
- 29:50helicopter deployment was too much Complicated by the reason
- 29:54that the environmental condition was not allowing the volume of
- 29:59flight that I expected to Carly Camp so that must have been a
- 30:04big blow. Well, I keep fingers crossed
- 30:07that the condition will allow us to join the field with a vest
- 30:12on. And and I came immediately to
- 30:15the, to the conclusion that even if we spent a lot of time
- 30:20procedures than and and money to be ready to deploy from highs
- 30:26deploying, from my students covers, younger ones would be
- 30:29almost impossible by lack of time.
- 30:32I'm because to install a camp, you have to understand that the
- 30:37vehicle weight. Only the vehicle weight is one
- 30:41point seven tons, okay? And the, and the initial maximum
- 30:45capabilities of a cargo Flight of the a copter was 1.5 tons.
- 30:50So I was obliged to install nice.
- 30:52Certain ton of equipments to manage this vehicle, plus the
- 30:56people, plus the safety, plus the consumable, and when you,
- 31:00you had hold of this The five plan was so much complicated
- 31:05that aircraft was on here, almost 24 hours seven and when
- 31:10we arrive on site, the first thing that the pilot said that,
- 31:14sorry guys, but I would maybe fly three to seven hours per day
- 31:20maximum. So, this this has been a
- 31:23disappointment because it was too complicated.
- 31:26So, did you have a plan B for that?
- 31:28Or did, how did you then sort resolve this?
- 31:31Because that That's a big part of the plan, that's now out the
- 31:35window. We optimized the ship ads plasma
- 31:40or nice And it has been quite. It has been quite a success and
- 31:49we anticipated to have a team from Germany from the company.
- 31:54Driftin noise, which came on board with satellite radar
- 31:58images and and I stood forecast, okay?
- 32:04And this data has been the real game changer which are allowing
- 32:09us to be extremely efficient on the ship movement.
- 32:14And we work very, very close with the Germans guys and and
- 32:19the ship ice Pilot. We for one of the first time of
- 32:23his career, got access to this very accurate data and it's
- 32:29allowing us to optimize the ship movement, to be, always where we
- 32:33need to be and how to go to the next point.
- 32:38And that is something which is quite important to explain.
- 32:41Nice condition. If you want to go to on point A
- 32:44to point B, you can have a straight line on Ice.
- 32:48You have to find a channel between sea ice, which might be
- 32:52quite deep which which is best route to arrive where you need
- 32:57to go. So it has been extremely,
- 33:01extremely successful and Ice condition plus.
- 33:05All this works, which have been in placed over the project
- 33:09management as the lowing of the Very, very good efficiency.
- 33:13What a fantastic way to end the podcast.
- 33:16I want to thank you again for your time and congratulations on
- 33:19the success of the project. Thank you so much for your time.
- 33:23Thank you so much. Thanks again to Nicole for
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