Picture description: A shut-down zoo
Series description: The coronavirus necessitated a series of strict measures at the Dvůr Králové Safari Park, which was closed to visitors starting in mid-March. In this photo, a zookeeper is feeding a Marabou stork chick, and a Goliath heron is flying towards the camera.
Author: Martin Veselý
DALŠÍ OCENĚNÍ
Picture description: Project Hydronaut: Matyáš Šanda spent thirteen years building an underwater lab, whose future uses include space research. This station, named DeepLab H03, made its first dive in August 2020. The two divers inside spent a record-setting seven days filled with scientific observations.
Series description: Matyáš Šanda on the DeepLab H03 station a few days before the dive.
Author: Petr Toman
Picture description: Project Hydronaut: Matyáš Šanda spent thirteen years building an underwater lab, whose future uses include space research. This station, named DeepLab H03, made its first dive in August 2020. The two divers inside spent a record-setting seven days filled with scientific observations.
Series description: The divers are transporting equipment to a caisson in the Slověnický mlýn mine, in the southwest of the Czech Republic. It is here that the crew of the DeepLab H03 station made their test run of a long-term stay underwater, including a decompression ascent.
Author: Petr Toman
Picture description: Project Hydronaut: Matyáš Šanda spent thirteen years building an underwater lab, whose future uses include space research. This station, named DeepLab H03, made its first dive in August 2020. The two divers inside spent a record-setting seven days filled with scientific observations.
Series description: The divers had to clean out sediment from the DeepLab H03 station, which had been submerged eight meters below the surface at the flooded Jesenný mine near Železný Brod.
Author: Petr Toman
Picture description: Project Hydronaut: Matyáš Šanda spent thirteen years building an underwater lab, whose future uses include space research. This station, named DeepLab H03, made its first dive in August 2020. The two divers inside spent a record-setting seven days filled with scientific observations.
Series description: Jiří Valášek welded practically the whole station. And he used up 1.5 tons of welding wire in the process.
Author: Petr Toman
Picture description: Project Hydronaut: Matyáš Šanda spent thirteen years building an underwater lab, whose future uses include space research. This station, named DeepLab H03, made its first dive in August 2020. The two divers inside spent a record-setting seven days filled with scientific observations.
Series description: On October 28th, 2018 – Czechoslovak independence day – a crane laid the thirty-ton station onto the surface for the first time. This structure, the work of dozens of enthusiasts, was thirteen years in the making. It was financed through a mixture of private and donated funds.
Author: Petr Toman
Picture description: Project Hydronaut: Matyáš Šanda spent thirteen years building an underwater lab, whose future uses include space research. This station, named DeepLab H03, made its first dive in August 2020. The two divers inside spent a record-setting seven days filled with scientific observations.
Series description: Here Matyáš Šanda and František Harant are just starting their underwater stay, named Mission One. They spent 168 hours and 168 minutes at the station; their decompression ascent lasted a further four hours. In the process, they set a new Czech record for saturation diving.
Author: Petr Toman
Picture description: Project Hydronaut: Matyáš Šanda spent thirteen years building an underwater lab, whose future uses include space research. This station, named DeepLab H03, made its first dive in August 2020. The two divers inside spent a record-setting seven days filled with scientific observations.
Series description: The MotherShip H03 servicing and technical dock, which provided the station with nonstop life support.
Author: Petr Toman
Picture description: Project Hydronaut: Matyáš Šanda spent thirteen years building an underwater lab, whose future uses include space research. This station, named DeepLab H03, made its first dive in August 2020. The two divers inside spent a record-setting seven days filled with scientific observations.
Series description: A ten-member team of divers, rescue workers, IT experts, and technicians tended to the crew throughout the mission. Janka Havlíčková made diving runs to the station day and night.
Author: Petr Toman
Picture description: Project Hydronaut: Matyáš Šanda spent thirteen years building an underwater lab, whose future uses include space research. This station, named DeepLab H03, made its first dive in August 2020. The two divers inside spent a record-setting seven days filled with scientific observations.
Series description: Station status was monitored and crew communication was managed here, at the control center. The crew had a carefully planned daily schedule, similar to those on spaceflights. The data produced will be used in university and scientific research.
Author: Petr Toman
DALŠÍ OCENĚNÍ
Picture description: A fractured giant: In the 16th century, cartographer Sebastian Münster described the Rhône glacier as a terrifyingly huge mass of ice. Now the 21st century bears witness to its decline, as well as efforts to postpone its end. Surprisingly, the motives for these efforts are of an entrepreneurial nature.
Series description: Rhône Glacier, Wallis, Switzerland, July 11th, 2020: The local Carlen family is attempting to slow the melting of the Rhône Glacier by partially covering it in fleece blankets.
Author: Tomáš Predajňa
Picture description: A fractured giant: In the 16th century, cartographer Sebastian Münster described the Rhône glacier as a terrifyingly huge mass of ice. Now the 21st century bears witness to its decline, as well as efforts to postpone its end. Surprisingly, the motives for these efforts are of an entrepreneurial nature.
Series description: Rhône Glacier, Wallis, Switzerland, August 24th, 2020: A close-up on the fleece blanket that reflects UV radiation, slowing this glacier’s melting by up to 70 percent.
Author: Tomáš Predajňa
Picture description: A fractured giant: In the 16th century, cartographer Sebastian Münster described the Rhône glacier as a terrifyingly huge mass of ice. Now the 21st century bears witness to its decline, as well as efforts to postpone its end. Surprisingly, the motives for these efforts are of an entrepreneurial nature.
Series description: Rhône Glacier, Wallis, Switzerland, July 11th, 2020: The effects of global warming are relentless, and they are making this glacier recede by 7 to 9 meters per year.
Author: Tomáš Predajňa
Picture description: A fractured giant: In the 16th century, cartographer Sebastian Münster described the Rhône glacier as a terrifyingly huge mass of ice. Now the 21st century bears witness to its decline, as well as efforts to postpone its end. Surprisingly, the motives for these efforts are of an entrepreneurial nature.
Series description: Rhône Glacier, Wallis, Switzerland, July 25th, 2020: In this place, every summer for the last 150 years, the Carlen family has been building the Eisgrotte: a glacier cave that tourists from around the world can visit for a small fee.
Author: Tomáš Predajňa
Picture description: A fractured giant: In the 16th century, cartographer Sebastian Münster described the Rhône glacier as a terrifyingly huge mass of ice. Now the 21st century bears witness to its decline, as well as efforts to postpone its end. Surprisingly, the motives for these efforts are of an entrepreneurial nature.
Series description: Rhône Glacier, Wallis, Switzerland, August 15th, 2020: The Carlens’ “glacier blanketing” has its outspoken opponents: mountain lovers and local mountain guides and their clients, for whom the blankets hinder access to and movement within the glacier.
Author: Tomáš Predajňa
Picture description: A fractured giant: In the 16th century, cartographer Sebastian Münster described the Rhône glacier as a terrifyingly huge mass of ice. Now the 21st century bears witness to its decline, as well as efforts to postpone its end. Surprisingly, the motives for these efforts are of an entrepreneurial nature.
Series description: Rhône Glacier, Wallis, Switzerland, August 15th, 2020: The fleece blankets are installed onto the glacier by plane, and old blankets are replaced with new ones each year. All this demands investments of several dozen thousand Swiss francs.
Author: Tomáš Predajňa
Picture description: A fractured giant: In the 16th century, cartographer Sebastian Münster described the Rhône glacier as a terrifyingly huge mass of ice. Now the 21st century bears witness to its decline, as well as efforts to postpone its end. Surprisingly, the motives for these efforts are of an entrepreneurial nature.
Series description: Rhône Glacier, Wallis, Switzerland, July 24th, 2020: Once the fleece blankets age and tear, they often look revolting, even morbid.
Author: Tomáš Predajňa
Picture description: A fractured giant: In the 16th century, cartographer Sebastian Münster described the Rhône glacier as a terrifyingly huge mass of ice. Now the 21st century bears witness to its decline, as well as efforts to postpone its end. Surprisingly, the motives for these efforts are of an entrepreneurial nature.
Series description: Rhône Glacier, Wallis, Switzerland, August 15th, 2020: Without sufficient glacier width and height, it will be impossible to continue rebuilding the cave, and the Carlens will lose a part of their “icy” business. Their rights to the use of this glacier reach back to the 1930s.
Author: Tomáš Predajňa
Picture description: A fractured giant: In the 16th century, cartographer Sebastian Münster described the Rhône glacier as a terrifyingly huge mass of ice. Now the 21st century bears witness to its decline, as well as efforts to postpone its end. Surprisingly, the motives for these efforts are of an entrepreneurial nature.
Series description: Rhône Glacier, Wallis, Switzerland, August 15th, 2020: Blanket or no, the glacier’s end is approaching mercilessly. Its definitive end is estimated for 2100 at the latest.
Author: Tomáš Predajňa
