FAKE PHOTOS? FAKE JOURNEY?
In my continuing monitering of the Swiss Polar Institute's [SPI] "Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition" [ACE], I've noted that their internet information output is rather thin. Nowhere is this more notable than on their twitter feed. There is no hard data-- only "soft porn" dealing with people-pictures, some scenery and plants and animals.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/ACEexpedition?src=hash
It's a bit tricky to figure out which posts are the latest posts on this twitter feed. If you scroll down a bit, you get to the posts that are hours old. This latest photo APPEARS TO ME TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED and in a very very SLOPPY manner. WHAT are we looking at here??
Why is the foreground light blue as seen above? It appears to be a photoshopped cartoon. In the background, the top of the glacier is a similar light blue. They're claiming that this is Mertz Glacier. How would anyone have obtained this photo even IF it were Mertz Glacier? It appears to be taken from ON TOP of the ice in the foreground. Do they have a helicopter?
Is the Treshnikov actually out where they say they are? I checked with an independent ship tracking program on the internet... marinetraffic.com
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:348863/mmsi:273359440/imo:9548536/vessel:AKADEMIK_TRYOSHNIKOV
They are tracked as having been at 46S on Jan. 23 2017 in the Tasman Sea-- ?
Now, 46S is well north of Antarctica-- actually that's Hobart, south of Australia as well as South Africa. Both are 46S. Tasman Sea is between Australia and New Zealand.
http://www.tasmanseasalt.com/
The route from South Africa to Hobart actually is not very far south at all-- certainly not part of a circumnavigation of Antarctica in my opinion.... unless we call all that other shipping activity a partial circumnavigation too.
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/p/satellite-ais
According to shipspotting.com, they're still in South Africa. Why does this site not update the location of the ship?
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2524802
LATEST FACEBOOK PHOTOS
https://www.facebook.com/ACEexpedition/photos/ms.c.eJw9ztENxDAMAtCNTobYGO~_~;WJVe0t8nBCDsJjhg1VL~;sAGGNshxIBbBUiovUD1cWNowgVnVHpJ9QcwqWwcYgZ2AcDsSbwc~;oP8rPiBkD1l5gFGTZXefY4S5QdkPXWQpKw~-~-.bps.a.1088710224589807.1073741835.941192069341624/1088710321256464/?type=3&theater
Here's a previous Tweet photo that looks odd to me... What the hell are we looking at here?
https://mobile.twitter.com/HofSwitzerland/status/822402325381685248?p=v
Why is the bottom right blurry?
What is the black line? Why is it blurry and dark in the middle? Seeing photos like this is discouraging to say the least. It's anomalous at very best.