I am considering doing a 20 day Antarctic expedition cruise on the MV Ushuaia next November and just wanted to hear from anybody who had sailed on that vessel recently.

My wife has tried to convince me to take this cruise for more than a year, but i have seen ice and sea before, i am from Anchorage, AK. So an Antarctic cruise doesn’t sound so amazing.
But she is bugging me already, so i plan to take the cheapest ticket which cost…USD00!!! I am still not convinced.

This dream was quite a while ago so all the pieces aren’t there. So I started on a cruise ship and was heading down to Antarctica to go to a friend’s funeral although I’m not sure which one of my friends. I don’t know how but I ended up in a rowboat and was rowing toward an antarctic town. When I reached the town it was a town built on ice with very old style buildings, kind of like the ones in fable in the snow town, cottages almost. When I got onto the ice I began being chased by a polar bear. After a while the polar bear caught me and was only able to take my pinky finger before I began to run again. I woke up during the chase. WTF?

1961 The cold war continued to worsen with the USSR exploding some very large bombs during testing and then masterminding the building of the Berlin Wall separating East from West Berlin, America sent a battle group to Germany and Americans and Russians Glared at each other across the border, due to this uncertainty many Americans built backyard fallout shelters incase of nuclear war. To make matters worse the Americans financed anti-Castro Cubans for an invasion at the bay of pigs which was an unmitigated disaster. The Soviets put the first man in space in April Yuri Gagarin followed by the US in May with Alan Shepard. popular music included Chubby Checkers "The Twist" and top movies included "West Side Story" and "The Parent Trap" .

Cost Of Living 1961

How Much things cost in 1961
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.07%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 2.9%
Average Cost of new house ,500.00
Average Income per year ,315.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 27 cents
Average Cost of a new car ,850.00
Bacon for 1LB 67 cents
Eggs per dozen 30 cents
Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Stirling

Average House Price 2,770

What Events Happened In 1961

Fidel Castro declares Cuba is to adopt Communism and bans free elections
US Cuban Exiles and CIA mount unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Castro known as the ( Bay of Pigs )
John F. Kennedy inaugurated as President of the United States
President John F. Kennedy advises American families to build bomb shelters
The Peace Corps is established by John F. Kennedy
President Kennedy asks Congress for 1 million to put a man on the moon
Race Riots in Cities throughout the United States
The Xingu National Park is created in Brazil
Britain applies for membership of the EEC
Segregation on railways in the south ends
Texas Sales Tax Introduced
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins.
East German Authorities close the border between east and west Berlin
UN General Assembly condemns Apartheid
Estimate of the Worlds Population reaches 4 billion
Farthings no longer legal tender in Britain
South Africa becomes an independent republic.
Last Journey of The Orient Express Paris – Bucharest
The first six flags theme parks opens "Six Flags Over Texas" at Arlington, Texas
Amnesty International Started in United Kingdom
The Antarctic Treaty System comes into force to regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica to ensure in the interests of all mankind that Antarctica shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes
Pampers the first disposable diaper are introduced
Members of the Portuguese leftist movement hijack The luxury cruise liner "Santa Maria".
Members of The UK Portland Spy Ring are found guilty of selling plans of the HMS Dreadnought, Britain’s first nuclear submarine to the Russians
During the Monza Italian Grand Prix Race Baron Wolfgang von Trips Ferrari crashes off the track onto embankment filled with spectators killing 14 plus the driver.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) started
"Freedom Riders" test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia on May 20th , over local segregation ordinances

Popular Culture

The farthing coin, used since the 13th century, ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
British satirical magazine Private Eyeis published for first time
The Jerk , the Frug , the Pony become popular dances
Black and white 5 pound notes cease to be a legal tender in the UK
Popular Films

The Guns of Navarone
The Parent Trap
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Alamo
Swiss Family Robinson
101 Dalmatians
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
El Cid
West Side Story
Popular TV

Mister Ed
The Avengers

Technology 1961

Yuri Gagarin is the first human in space.

The First inflight movie is shown on TWA

The First electric toothbrush is produced Squibb Co.

Alan Shepard makes first US Space Flight

Niagra Falls starts producing hydroelectric power

The first quasar is discovered by Allan Sandage at Mt Palomar, California

IBM introduces the Selectric typewriterGolfball

Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Human Space Travel Russia Yuri Gagarin – the first human in space

Hey everybody,
Antarctica is the most beautiful place on Earth with its prolific wildlife and pristine scenery. Tourism has grown rapidly with more that 30 cruise ship operators working in Antarctica. Briefly can can someone explain whether they think tourism is a threat to the Antarctic wilderness?

Thankyou

This news story is from 2004 during the worst period of hysteria surrounding the imminent Antarctic meltdown theory. If a polar bear had been forced to swim 20 feet we would have heard, but we did not hear a peep out of these seekers of truth who could see no ice but not ice.
Russian Ice-breaker Krasin Heading For Antarctic To Rescue U.S. Polar Station McMurdo
VLADIVOSTOK (Anatoly Ilyukhov) – The Far-Eastern Marine Shipping Company’s icebreaker Krasin leaves Vladivostok on Tuesday for the Antarctic to rescue the US polar station McMurdo. http://www.martechpolar.com/Polar%20News/krasinice2.jpg
According to the shipping company, the cruise to the Antarctic was ordered by the Russian government at the request by the US authorities for an ice-breaker to assist in urgently resupplying the US Antarctic mission.
Remember the ladies who were going to broadcast their swim to the North Pole back to their 4th grade classes. Did their frostbite finally clear up or they cripples forever?

I have a place to stay for three months in Canada, but I’ll be contributing to all household bills while under their roof and using a Can-rail pass for a month of my time there. I would like to settle down for a while in Guatemala and do some volunteer work. I have no further plans but I really want to put aside two thousand of my budget for an Antarctic ‘cruise’ from Argentina at the end of my year (the whole idea is that I go from the Canadian Arctic to Antarctica in a year). So the remainder has to cover a flight from Dublin to Toronto and a flight back to Dublin (I’m Irish) from somewhere in Chile or Argentina next October, as well as however many changes of kit to adapt to climate… I am also female, 24 and will be travelling independently and alone, and am well aware that this is a wildly ambitious and naive undertaking. My budget has fallen short of the initial €10,000 I thought I could have saved by now… The fear is starting to set in.

where would be a cheap place to get the antarctic cruise in Ushuiaia

Why considering the fact that people died did this recieve so much less coverage than the cruise ship in the Antarctic where every last passenger and crew member were rescued?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/7110705.stm

Kamran they kept banging on about how many brits were rescused from the antarctic ship.

Adele tells Walt that she needs a satelite phone that will work anywhere in the world becasue she is going on a Antarctic cruise. Walt who works for Simcom tells her that she should buy Telekom because of its "complete coverage of the earth including land, ocean and polar regions." The standart terms and conditions state " 1)Telekom will work anywhere in the world in normal conditions but may not work in extreme weather. 2) these standart terms constitude entire contract.
Walt hands over these terms shortly before Adele buys the telekomodo for 00.
On the 2nd week of the trip the weather becomes bad and she is unable to communicate about 1mil. painting she was bidding for. Hence she cannot determine if made any profit on buying & selling painting, she estimate the research and other expenses at ,000.
Has Simcom breached terms of its contract at common law & any implied terms in Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth). What r the contractual effect of terms and walts statement. + remedies