Ocean Gladiator delivered 358 items of cargo, which included containers stuffed with mechanical elements, automobiles, building supplies, workplace provides and electronics tools and automobiles. The provides are a part of two deliveries that may present almost 80 % of the gadgets wanted for survival over the extreme arctic winter over interval when the station is cutoff from the remainder of the world.
Ocean Gladiator together with the MSC chartered ship MV Ocean Large, carried out cargo offloads on the Marine Causeway System (MCS) that was put in place to interchange the standard ice-pier that has been utilized in years previous. The MCS was delivered by Ocean Large who arrive in Antarctica forward of Ocean Gladiator. Upon completion of their cargo supply, Ocean Gladiator retrieved the dismantled sections of the MCS, and loaded it onto the ship, together with 115 items of retrograde cargo, that will probably be returned to Port Hueneme, Calif., the place their mission started in early January.
Operation Deep Freeze is a joint service, on-going Protection Help to Civilian Authorities exercise in assist of the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF), lead company for america Antarctic Program. Mission assist consists of energetic responsibility, Guard and Reserve personnel from the U.S. Air Drive, Navy, Army, and Coast Guard in addition to Division of Protection civilians and connected non-DOD civilians. ODF operates from two main places located at Christchurch, New Zealand and McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
