S2. Ep.5 - On Polar Sailing and a Changing Climate with Skip Novak

About this episode

This episode features Skip Novak discussing his extensive sailing experiences and the changes occurring in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean due to climate change.

We've explored the changing Arctic in a couple of our our Clean Sailors podcasts to date, but what about Antarctica and the Southern Ocean; what is it like and how is it changing? There is no other sailor to ask than Skip Novak - from Antarctica, Patagonia, South Georgia, the Northwest passage, Falklands, Atlantic, Pacific to the South Sandwich Islands, Svalbard, Spitsbergen: you name it, Skip has sailed it, and has sailed the most sea miles of any other sailor, alive or dead. Tune in to this episode to hear more on Skip's lifetime of sailing and, importantly, how the southern-most, at times most-formidable region of our planet, Antarctica, has been shifting.

People in this episode

Guest: Skip Novak

Topics covered

• polar sailing
• climate change
• Antarctica
• Southern Ocean
• sailing experiences
• environmental shifts

Keywords

• polar sailing
• climate change
• Antarctica
• Skip Novak
• Southern Ocean
• sailing
• environment

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Antarctica, Patagonia, South Georgia, Northwest passage, Falklands, Atlantic, Pacific, South Sandwich Islands, Svalbard, Spitsbergen

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