Ariel Waldman

So if you need to sit down to pee, you pee into a coffee can, like a large coffee can.

And that coffee can has a handle on it.

And you take that coffee can and then you pour it into the urinal, which goes into a large drum.

So if you can stand up, you get to pee in the urinal.

But if you can't, you have to pee in a coffee cup and remember to put it in the urinal.

If you do not remember...

to pour your coffee can into the urinal, your pee can freeze overnight and then the next person who comes could overflow that can.

I have heard about that happening and was absolutely, you know, terrified of that happening.

So yeah, fun facts of going to the bathroom in Antarctica.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When you're out on a hike, you always bring your water bottle and your pee bottle.

And then at the end of your expedition, you have to wash out your pee bottles before you go because those get reused for other people.

So fun facts.

Yeah, great question.

One was that obtube experience where I didn't know I was going to spend time hearing and seeing seals under the ice as if I was a diver.

Other things are, I don't know, they're not as impactful, but they were impactful to me.

I'm there filming microorganisms, micro animals, seeing what I can see.

And for me, it was really the first time I came across really beautiful, huge diatoms, which are microalgae that's encased in glass and just...

So beautiful.