Being at the North Pole - What is it like? Expedition on luxury icebreaker Part 5 - BEING AT 90°

Well, hello friends and clients. This is it. We are finally disembarking at the geographic North Pole. I'm Dr. Gary Senderov with Cruise Planners and we're a very important partner with Ponant and I can offer you the very best value. So if you're looking to book, email me at gary.senderov at cruiseplanners.com and you'll see my email address and information at the end of this video. But for now, enjoy your visit to the North Pole. So to get to the North Pole, you really need an icebreaker class ship. And as far as cruise ship goes, Le Commandant Charcot by Ponant is the only cruise ship that does this in a comfortable format. So my partnership with Ponant, as I mentioned, is a very strong one and I actually happen to really love this ship. Plus, of course, my clients get treated a little bit extra special all let them here on the sea ice and they will drift with the movement of the ice, the current and everything. At one moment in a few months, a few years, they probably will be on the coast or anywhere on the surface of the earth. And if someone finds it, you just have to go to the website Float Boat and enter the number and say, OK, I found it. And you, if you want to know if someone get it, you can also go on the website Float Boat, enter the number. So take a picture of it and you will know if your boat was found by someone or not. This is so fun. OK, it's good for everyone. Yes, well done. So you will be able to find our crew if you want. You can then just close the perimeter around 12.30 and reopen around 14.30. So you can still land this afternoon, This is our little snow baby. The snow baby is measuring the snow thickness. So we have a sensor here that's pointing downwards. This tells us how much snow accumulates over winter and it will drift with the ice down to Greenland, melt out of the ice. But for 10 months until it dies, it will give us the snow thickness, which is a real new and underestimated parameter here in the Arctic. And we need to understand about the snow. We pack all the data, that's the snow thickness, air temperature, air pressure, ice temperature and GPS position. That's packed into one package and every hour it's sent via this antenna to a satellite and then down to the German Polar Institute in Bremerhaven. And there we collect the data and you can follow it actually. You can track our Boyo. You'll get a link in the end of the cruise and the number of the Boyo and you can check anytime you want how the snow baby is doing, if it's alive and what data it's sending. It's all open. Usually it melts out of the ice on the Fram Strait. It's between Svalbard and Greenland, somewhere down there. Thank you. So dear passengers, so here we are. I hope that you have enjoyed this ice landing and this huge ice flow. Very nice. The best that we have ever found since the beginning of the season. And we have drifted from yesterday night about three miles toward the southwest. So ice is moving all the time at 0.2 miles per hour. We have more than 4,000 meters of water under our keel. You are about to dive into the North Pole. You're excited about jumping into the North Pole. No, I am not. Most polar plunges are from the back of the ship or the side of the ship, but on this one you're on the sea ice. They set up a tent to change and you actually jump in right from the drifting ice, which is really, really cool and quite different than other polar plunges. All right, Alex. Everybody's watching. I can't chicken out. Are you glad you did it? Yeah. North Pole, how could I not do it? All right. And I do have a full ship tour on my channel, which you can have a look at, along with a lot of different cabin types. So it's a pretty good tour of the ship if you're curious and if you want to check it out or if you're considering booking it. I have to tell you out of all of my expeditions, this one is extremely special because you're breaking ice almost the entire way. Plus, it's a really cool idea to know that you actually came to the North Pole. So it's a very special trip and it's very enriching, I think. And here's a better view of that forward equipment that they were using to measure the thickness of the ice that you kept seeing along my videos in the forward part of the ship. So that's why we have this, it's called the toots. Yeah, exactly. The worst thing is you get a little bit wet on your boots, but you don't get taken by the current down to Canada. They were just checking, double checking that this instrument was correct, because it said 1.3 meters. Then Stefan was sent out with the drill. So whenever they got off the ship, they actually drilled this sign into the exact position of the North Pole. So when you take a picture with the sign, you're actually at the geographic North Pole, which is kind of cool to know. And this is my beautiful view of the North Pole itself from my private balcony. Every stateroom on this ship has a private balcony, so it's really great to take this ship on polar adventures for sure. Congratulations, you set foot at the North Pole. email me at gary.senderoff at cruiseplanners.com. Don't forget to visit my website at www.tourdoctors.com and register yourself for my VIP email list. And also don't forget to click like, comment, and subscribe for more videos and adventures such as this one. Thanks for watching.