Ariel Waldman

But it's really cool to actually be at a station where you're next to this active volcano that's not expected to hurt anyone.

But yeah, it's just kind of smoking away down there.

That's a good question.

I know that going under the sea around McMurdo Station, you get really, really rich forms of life.

So you get all these amazing seals and sea spiders and...

all these like cool things that you get to see.

I had the chance to go under the ice without becoming a diver, which was an incredible experience.

There's something that they do at McMurdo Station where they will embed a metal pipe in nine feet thick of ice in the sea ice.

And you can crawl down this really tiny metal pipe through the sea ice.

And then at the bottom, there's windows around this.

This is called the observation tube.

And you get to actually sit underneath the sea ice

The sea ice above you illuminated like really bright and then all of the creatures underneath.

This is probably the coolest thing in McMurdo Station.

This is just amazing to be in this tiny little tube just sitting beneath the ice.

This is definitely life under the ice and getting up and close and personal with it is just an incredible experience.

It really illuminated just how amazing and full of life Under the Ice is in Antarctica because I was like, why would anyone dive in sub-freezing waters?

And then I went into this weird pipe and was able to see Under the Ice myself.

And I was like, oh my God, this is nuts.

I mean, there's a ton of life there.