Where 150 Sailors Sleep on America's 50-Year-Old Icebreaker to Antarctica

The rack is six feet long, two feet wide, and bolted to a steel wall that shakes all night. This is where about 150 sailors sleep aboard USCGC Polar Star, the only heavy icebreaker the United States has left, on a five month mission to Antarctica. Built in 1976, the Polar Star has no backup ship. When something breaks thousands of miles from any shipyard, the crew fixes it themselves. In this video we go inside the berthing compartments, the showers, the engine rooms and the mess deck to see how they sleep through backing and ramming, 24 hours of daylight and a ship that rolls like no other. Chapters 0:00 The rack that never stops shaking 1:10 Where the crew sleeps 3:50 Showers when the water runs short 5:10 A ship older than her engineers 7:00 Operation Deep Freeze: breaking the ice 8:35 Sleeping under the midnight sun 9:30 The night the ocean came in 11:00 Daily life on board 12:25 Why they keep coming back Crew Quarters goes inside the places where working people sleep in the most extreme corners of the planet: warships, icebreakers, oil rigs and beyond. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one. #icebreaker #coastguard #antarctica