Left twiddling our thumbs...
15.15
By lunch time it seems clear that no helicopter is going to take off today. With the freezing fog and highs winds it´s just too dangerous. The pilots aren´t happy either and now have to go and scrape all the ice off their rotorblades.
The good news is that the storm seems to be moving off. It´s now dry in Charlottetown, but bitterly cold due to the wind. The ice conditions should be a bit better tomorrow since everything will have frozen over and should be less slushy. Yesterday this proved to be a real hinderance to our colleagues who did manage to get out there in the morning. Everyone reckons we should get out there in the morning and I´m scheduled again to be on the first flight at 5 am.
The terrible weather conditions have also prevented the sealers from extending their carnage from far beyond their boats. According to Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd, everyone is stuck in the ice. Even an coastguard ice breaker!! This should at least slow them down and give us the opportunity to collect more material.
One last piece of news. Yesterday I wrote about a young seal left to suffocate in its own blood for 1,5 hours. Rebecca Aldworth spoke to Roger Simon of the DFO and asked whether such seals can be removed from the ice and taken to the Atlantic Veterinary School here on PEI. No one is able to euthanise such animals. She convinced him and the vets to allow us to stick such an animal in the helicopter and take it to be saved or put to sleep. I´ve got to say that I´m suprised that he conceded to this. The night before Rebecca wiped the floor with him during a television news programme with regard to the cruelty of the hunt and DFOs failure to uphold the law.
I´m now going to chill out and mentally prepare myself for the horrors to come....
By lunch time it seems clear that no helicopter is going to take off today. With the freezing fog and highs winds it´s just too dangerous. The pilots aren´t happy either and now have to go and scrape all the ice off their rotorblades.
The good news is that the storm seems to be moving off. It´s now dry in Charlottetown, but bitterly cold due to the wind. The ice conditions should be a bit better tomorrow since everything will have frozen over and should be less slushy. Yesterday this proved to be a real hinderance to our colleagues who did manage to get out there in the morning. Everyone reckons we should get out there in the morning and I´m scheduled again to be on the first flight at 5 am.
The terrible weather conditions have also prevented the sealers from extending their carnage from far beyond their boats. According to Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd, everyone is stuck in the ice. Even an coastguard ice breaker!! This should at least slow them down and give us the opportunity to collect more material.
One last piece of news. Yesterday I wrote about a young seal left to suffocate in its own blood for 1,5 hours. Rebecca Aldworth spoke to Roger Simon of the DFO and asked whether such seals can be removed from the ice and taken to the Atlantic Veterinary School here on PEI. No one is able to euthanise such animals. She convinced him and the vets to allow us to stick such an animal in the helicopter and take it to be saved or put to sleep. I´ve got to say that I´m suprised that he conceded to this. The night before Rebecca wiped the floor with him during a television news programme with regard to the cruelty of the hunt and DFOs failure to uphold the law.
I´m now going to chill out and mentally prepare myself for the horrors to come....
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Next days, knife attack on Krista van Velzen: see http://dearkitty.modblog.com/core.mod?show=blogview&blog_id=537779
I know! I was also there - read my next blogs...
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