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The British Antarctic Survey has released video and images captured by a UK research icebreaker of the mega iceberg A23a – which is twice the size of Greater London, and now ‘on the move’. Scientists aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough collected samples of seawater around the A23a mega iceberg, the largest iceberg in the […]
A team of international researchers has set sail on the RRS Sir David Attenborough to answer questions about how Antarctic ecosystems and sea ice drive global ocean cycles of carbon and nutrients. It’s thought the results of the research will help in the understanding of how the Southern Ocean is being affected by environmental change. The […]
A report investigating an accident during a launching exercise on board the UK’s most advanced polar research ship, RRS Sir David Attenborough, on Loch Buie in Scotland on 4 March 2021, has been published by UK government agency the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB). Investigators identified several safety issues that led to a lifeboat falling […]
Babcock International has completed maintenance works for the Royal Research Ship (RRS) Sir David Attenborough at its Rosyth facilities. Babcock welcomed the RRS Sir David Attenborough to the Scottish town of Rosyth in early June 2023 with works to the ship, including upgrades to the vessel’s gas detection system, helideck netting, draft sensor vent pipework, as well as […]
The UK’s new polar research ship, RSS Sir David Attenborough, has sailed into London ahead of its first expedition to Antarctica. The 129m ice breaker made its London debut in Greenwich in support of the UK Presidency of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). RRS Sir David Attenborough has been undergoing sea trials around […]