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00:03we want to really underscore just how serious this wildfire season is it's
00:10nightmarish it's walls of flame now we have no helicopters whatsoever I am
00:16freaking exhausted I got one nerve left and you're on it we're trying to go
00:20north through an area that's basically an emergency situation and everybody's
00:25coming south at the same time I'm extremely excited about this scan data like I think
00:30there's so much that we can do if we keep asking the questions we can get closer to
00:36the truth of it's real or not this could potentially prove if the rune stone is a
00:41fake or if it's real with the magnetometer we found some interesting disturbed sites
00:46over here we have threads of a mystery that we're trying to weave together and
00:51it's really interesting to see where that goes you get used to being on the
00:56edge of something where things could go terribly wrong our thing has really just
01:00been doing something exciting we tend to do the hard stuff and the fun stuff it's
01:06rewarding in the end
01:43as the planning continues Edward rejoins the team and goes over results from their trip to Alexandria
01:50Minnesota to see the infamous Kensington rune stone okay Edward what do you got
01:55here so I've got four scans here these are the two high resolution scans this one
02:00being the highest resolution scan and these were just to kind of back up quick scans
02:04I think one of these were the ones that we did when the cover was still on
02:08these are the first scans done in high quality of the rune stone since 2008
02:14Olaf was a settler in Minnesota in the late 1800s was a farmer he was clearing his land pulls up
02:21a tree
02:21finds a rune stone underneath it that's a pretty incredible story unfortunately he's also a fellow
02:28who could actually understand what that was he looks at it and goes hey that's a rune stone but
02:34he actually was from a country that makes rune stones he's credible because there doesn't seem to be
02:40any motive for being notoriously hated by everybody for saying it's a hoax and
02:46there's no upside if it's real this would be the outside of the stone if we flip it around
02:53that's the inside that's the inside the double-sided scan is interesting to us because you can give that
03:00data to runologists and to people who are familiar with how you carve runes to have a discussion about
03:08how were they constructed if the Kensington rune stone is in fact authentic it could be related
03:15to the lost Viking can the team is searching for in the north you can see a lot of things
03:21are going
03:21on there you can see more detail yeah can you see more from the back can you shadow it because
03:27now
03:27they're I wish I would say from the back you would have way more detail because now you can now
03:32you can
03:32really see the depth of all of the characters there's a skills and experience to getting good
03:38data he knows how to do that so we can give good information to archaeologists and researchers for
03:44next phase depending on what we find so yeah we took a look at the scans I actually looked into
03:49the
03:49technology that was used when the stone was first scanned it's a very old technology that they used it's
03:57still similar to one of the scanners that I used I could use a structured light but the accuracy over
04:03like what are we two decades later now it's tremendously increased the scans reveal a level of detail on the
04:12rune stone never seen before all of Olmen probably cleaned it out with a nail or something or a file
04:20or a
04:21point of a file or something to clean it up because it's going to be covered with with mud and
04:25you know
04:26grit and everything else when he pulls it up when we were up in Barons River and found that thing
04:31on
04:31the rock you know it took the snow to it oh yeah months earlier the team was in Barons River
04:39looking
04:39for white man's writing on a rock a carved stone that would confirm ancient Norse travel in the area
04:46with a guide's help they found a rock with writings carved in it buried in snow but it wasn't the
04:54mysterious white man's writing on a rock there's a number part of a number and he thinks I'm joking
05:05so we dig a little bit we only see it because there's snow in the cut in the rock the
05:11cut in
05:11the numbers and the cut in the letters it's the only we'd walked by it a hundred times in the
05:16summertime never see it ah 1944 I'm telling SRAB that is a needle in a freaking haystack right there
05:29how would all of us known how to fake this because this seems like not the language that they used
05:36back
05:37then and he was a farmer right he decided to forge something he had a book on runes and then
05:42the runes
05:43gave him a basis like a dictionary he used the dictionary to write this out and I am not a
05:50rune
05:50expert there are many people that are and they argue about some of the way things are written in here
05:56like that dotted R is a big one and it shows up other places the AVM that's Latin you know
06:03it's a
06:04religious thing like our ancestors the ones that came over in the thousand AD they were already
06:09Catholics they were already religious they weren't pagans anymore they'd gone to other countries they
06:15spoke different languages they were familiar with Latin Olaf's story about the stone never changed
06:21even though his family faced ridicule from skeptics over the years this is a pretty complicated story
06:27if you had a six years of education moved your family here you're a farmer why would you do this
06:34and why would you build this story around people dying and boats and travel and it was fairly clear
06:41that it was entangled in the roots of a tree that were at least 20 or 30 years old at
06:46the time
06:47and he'd only been there for a few years that's why he's cleaning the land right yeah so how did
06:51he get
06:51it into a tree get roots wrapped around it then miraculously find it you know he benefited in no
06:58monetary way and no he wasn't seeking fame or fortune it personally it did none of it turned out very
07:05well for his family at all he probably wished he'd never seen the damn thing and you look at it
07:09and
07:10you think okay why that story it's an odd story with specific things I can almost guarantee you even
07:16with Google and all the access we have to everything we can do today I would have a hard time
07:23thinking
07:24of the story and creating this and burying it under a tree only to turn it up 30 years from
07:30now like
07:31you can kind of just see like like there's a there's a there's a hip or yeah hip hip hip
07:36hip like they're
07:36there and they're everywhere we measured a few of them and they're all the same distance in between each
07:43other and you look at all like look at this one right like it has a hip hip hip hip
07:48hip hip right
07:49like it just it's very consistent I have an open mind because and that's why we're doing this expedition
07:54because we want to use new technology and continue asking people for input to keep the discussion going
08:03Scandinavian or Viking exploration before Christopher Columbus isn't a very popular research topic for
08:08anybody but the fact that he owned that story from the moment he found it and never wavered ever and
08:15none of his family did either really makes me believe that it is real as much as someone thinks
08:19it's a hoax that's a pretty elaborate hoax to basically ruin your family for for generations at
08:25some point you'd think you'd just tell people it was fake if it was actually fake they never did if
08:30we
08:30keep asking the questions we can get closer to the truth of it's real or not I understand how it's
08:37very
08:37coincidental that a guy who had a rune stone book has a rune in his yard the science is moving
08:43along
08:43where it's not saying it's a fake so the the research doesn't say absolutely 100% no so the
08:50possibility is still open I'm extremely excited about this scan data like I think there's so much that we
08:57can do like we can go 3d scan the chisels and we can put them into the 3d models and
09:02we can see if
09:02they match up all the markings these scans are really important to us because the Kensington
09:07rune stone puts a stick in the North America if they're real the 1320 penny actually connects if
09:14the if the Kensington rune stone is fake it's just crazy coincidence there's a 1320 penny on the shores
09:20of the Red River and there's all these metal artifacts within hundreds of miles of Kensington
09:26these rune stone scans can make all the difference in the world this could potentially prove that the
09:32rune stone is a fake or if it's real Joe and David review the data that Edward obtained while scanning
09:45the
09:45Kensington rune stone in Alexandria Minnesota the data can potentially break new ground in the history of
09:52Norse settlers in North America or it could disprove its authenticity this is a big moment I'm I'm like
10:00you can see my smile ear to ear those dots are the the thing this is the end of something
10:07else yeah
10:07good question for Janie she's looked at this so much I think well I'm really glad we did this scan
10:13because it gives us data to share with people who are focusing on this mm-hmm and it's in its
10:20message
10:20because it's there's a lot of artifacts have been found in a couple hundred mile radius from this
10:28thing that are hard to explain there's a couple reasons why people think the rune stone is a hoax
10:35the rune stone is in a weird place it's in the middle of Minnesota so Olaf Oman not only had
10:40a book
10:40of runes in his house he's from a country that did that it's odd that a northern Scandinavian person
10:48found a rune stone the the analysis after that with the language and the and how things were made
10:54in the age of the rock it's easy to go not the right language and the right spelling the right
11:00construction of the runes and that's what I'm really looking forward to finding more about from
11:05our research in Alexandria but there's no reason that it couldn't be real they could have been there
11:10they could have carved it they could have left it there could have been done he could have found it
11:14no doubt he cleaned it out with a nail that he had in the barn so he could read it
11:18better maybe
11:18somebody chiseled we already know it's been in the museum and that have in the hands of the
11:22Smithsonian it's been copied twice plaster of Paris once and and some and plastic material other times
11:31maybe cleaned with with solvents maybe oiled maybe who knows what happened to this thing there's no
11:37reason that it could not be real what would be a good thing to do is get 3d models of
11:42the chisels
11:42that they used in those eras where both eras and then we can use those we can compare them to
11:50this
11:51three model and see if we can find where those chisel marks are while in Minnesota the Faraheim
11:58team used an XR scanner to analyze several artifacts for possible links to the Kensington runestone
12:04scans of a draw knife showed it to be nearly pure iron suggesting it was produced through a smelting process
12:12similar to early Norse metalworking the scans don't confirm anything but they offered enough
12:19intriguing details for the team to keep the artifact in consideration next Johan heads to Minneapolis to
12:30acquire a drone with LiDAR capabilities that will assist in mapping the terrain LiDAR technology is
12:39similar to radar as it interprets pulses sent back from a surface to create a digital 3d model LiDAR
12:46is just lasers measuring a distance right so it doesn't matter what unit it's coming from whether
12:51it's air land or sea you're just trying to measure that point in space in time just like every other
12:57drone you see flying around someone's doing a little radio control of it with a sensor underneath it
13:03and it's just shooting light at the ground lots of little dots of light and then it's collecting the reflection
13:10back basically to make a map
13:23this technology would really just expedite your efforts in looking for something that is potentially
13:30under you know tree canopy Katie is a familiar face to the Faraheim team she was with them months ago
13:38in
13:38the back of the utility vehicle when it broke through the ice so you can see we have this nice
13:45pulsing
13:46green or a steady green that means good we're still collecting data LiDAR allows some of the most accurate
13:51terrain mapping available the process data will help the team plan their route ahead of time by seeing
13:58obstructions and dangers in the way this will save them hours or more in prep work for the next day's
14:05outing so you can imagine if they had gone out and tried to shoot this with GPS you know traditional
14:11survey gear number one they would have been like they would not have been able to get this level of
14:18detail whatsoever there are groups online who are actually scanning through where ancient Roman sites
14:24are because you can see them with LiDAR Lanzo Meadow when they found it it just looked like a little
14:28dirt pile until they started excavating it and going like holy smokes there is an actual village here a
14:34thousand years ago well really really appreciate you spending the time with us training me up on
14:40all the technology I hope to do you proud my pleasure meanwhile Joe and David get a video call from
14:51Mark at
14:52OKM about what the results from using ground penetrating radar on various sites around Alexandria show
14:59I put together a slide that shows the difference between a great site that's 150 years old and one
15:09that is more modern and I put those kind of side by side to help everyone visualize the difference that
15:17you see in the characteristics of the anomaly and also what what they look like you know after 150 years
15:26versus seven years
15:29Mark's technology looks for disturbances and dirt so if you're just looking at the dirt around you over time
15:37it sinks and has a certain density and if right now we dug a grave we disturb the dirt and
15:44put something in it
15:45and put the dirt back on it it looks different when you scan it
15:54it's interesting we've definitely I think with the magnetometer we found some interesting disturbed
15:59sites over here or let's say disturbed soil so that definitely gives me the impression that you know
16:05there has been activity here with the GPR this morning with the site that we did down the hill for
16:12the
16:13ballast stones I think the data that we had from that scan really would suggest that it's worth further
16:20investigation but definitely if it were me and I were in a position of power over this facility this
16:28site I would want to do some additional excavation and see okay what what is that
16:34I think the technology definitely delivered it made our job easier I don't think it did our job for us
16:40but I think it made it a lot more efficient and faster we would have never known if anything was
16:44actually in that ground that Ralph had said if we didn't have that unless we were digging and as I
16:49increase the density there's definitely is that a box that's well it it's a major it's a real hit
16:57right kind of here below the um device we have threads of a mystery that we're trying to weave
17:05together and it's really interesting to see where that goes and you can see here we've got two pretty
17:18strong hits right on the first line of the the scan that we did this was right at the edge
17:25of the parking
17:26so we feel pretty strongly that there are two um disturbed areas right there whether or not they
17:33were graves it's not clear but definitely the soil in those two areas has been disturbed considerably
17:40similar to what we saw with the grave site though the scans indicate anomalies below the surface
17:47they are still inconclusive so if it was an ancient burial they would have been buried in not in boxes
17:55likely just maybe wrapped or something or maybe not even wrapped just clothing would they be hard
18:00enough to give you that sort of return yeah the bones with the um the bones will give us um
18:06our 60
18:08and 300 megahertz will attenuate from the the human bones okay so we will you would see a signal from
18:16the
18:16bones in this case you've got a seven foot area it's mainly a seven by seven area foot area that
18:23where we're
18:24getting a strong echo excavating the site is the only way the findings can be confirmed i'll just pass
18:32the information on to the uh uh ralph and the kensington runestone park people and they can uh decide if
18:39they want to go get a permit and do some digging mark presents more promising results to joe and david
18:46so
18:46that was the location uh where uh ralph uh identified uh like a ship should have been that would have
18:54rotted away we've got three feet from top to bottom we were guided to different spots and we collected data
19:02and uh some of the spots were uh potentially ballast stones weirdly there were ballast stone sized rocks under
19:11there this would be also an interesting place to start you look at the the top straight on the top
19:19you see it's more or less on the perimeter we've got the same about six and a half feet of
19:25target area
19:26looking at it from the top we look at it from the side it's a more of a stratified area
19:32to me this looks
19:34actually more as if it's rocks or something i would expect this to be similar to the potentially the
19:42ballast stones if they were gathered in one area pretty tightly let's say in the heel of the ship then
19:50this is the type of arrangement or type of echo i would expect to see which ballast stones in the
19:58bottom of a ship
20:00ralph a long-time alexandria resident asserts there is an ancient viking ship buried under the ground
20:07the group of the potential ballast stones help to support that idea if that's what they are what
20:14i'm seeing here is not consistent with everything else you see on the surface in this part of minnesota
20:20the results aren't conclusive and it's still impossible to verify without digging up the area
20:26however mark's data reveals something of interest is there and that's enough to keep the faraheim team
20:33and others searching for the truth well there are other teams working on following this story some of
20:40them have found things it needs more research and that's one of the things we're trying to do if we
20:45can come up with more facts and data that show there could be something there we can invigorate more
20:50formal archaeological research thanks for coming on this journey with us hey i enjoyed it it's uh
20:57looking forward to the next chapter that's for sure with only a day to go the faraheim team is hit
21:04with
21:04more bad news we want to really underscore just how serious this wildfire season is after months of
21:12planning a northern expedition is suddenly up in the air and causing stress within the faraheim team
21:20how's it going with the planning because i heard uh we don't have helicopters anymore i am freaking
21:25exhausted i got one nerve left and you're on it it's one day before the faraheim team's long-awaited trip
21:38but they've run into another setback one that could jeopardize the entire expedition
21:45the thing about planning is there's always a risk 15 000 people have been forced to leave their homes
21:51because of wildfires it's nightmarish one of mckenzie's friends as a police officer up there
21:59and has been sending pictures and it's walls of flame
22:04just got into manitoba here and it sounds like manitoba's burning
22:09so we've got it on the on the east side of manitoba in the white shell the noping park we've
22:14got the
22:14fires on the on the west side up in the paw up in sharon up in the evacuated flin flan
22:24we had everything organized to get wheeled aircraft into a lodge heli lifted to the windy bay site
22:31that disappeared because we can't get a helicopter couldn't get the right helicopter then we had a
22:35secondary helicopter then that completely fell apart
22:40we were going to go in the winter i wish we had because we were going to go on ice
22:44the snow is four feet deep deepest snow in 40 years so we waited for that
22:51jd went up and had a look and and uh with a local lodge operator and he was waist deep
22:57in snow and because
22:59the snow was so deep the ice was thin so we wait for the snow to go down and the
23:03ice is too thin now
23:03we can't get in on the ice on skis do i sound like i'm a complainer or not
23:09our expeditions are normally going down a river or going to some place because we don't go where
23:16forest fires are because we don't want to get trapped it's making it very tough because we're
23:21trying to go north through an area that's basically an emergency situation and everybody's coming
23:26south at the same time we don't normally have to deal with this we can't do anything about it down
23:32here but it's definitely changed our plans all the crews are gone all the helicopters all the airplanes
23:38aren't available manitoba is in the middle of one of the province's worst wildfire outbreaks
23:45homes have been lost wildlife displaced and communities evacuated or on the verge everybody's
23:53on fire we had everything organized we were so smooth until we weren't the government declares a state
24:01of emergency all the planning the team has done for their northern expedition so far is likely to change
24:09it's the worst evacuation in 70 years and there's tens of thousands of people moving and losing their
24:16homes the biggest evacuation of civilians since the 1950 flood so we're looking at like 20 000 people
24:22and we have a huge smoke problem so now not only we just layer these things one on top of
24:27the other
24:28so okay that plans out let's have a new plan
24:33every helicopter and aircraft that could help battle the fire is in use or on standby for evacuations
24:41and medical emergencies the team's options are limited now the helicopter option we had it until
24:48just a few days ago now we have no helicopters whatsoever we can get in on floats well then try
24:54and find a float airplane but on floats they don't carry that much because it is three hours from thompson
24:59it's a long way past the manitoba border we're going to leave a lot of our tents behind because we
25:06have the opportunity to stay in a out camp actually that's been ravaged by bears an out camp or outlying
25:14camp is positioned away from a main camp when bears awaken from hibernation they immediately start
25:20looking for food and an out camp is an ideal first stop i talked to a couple of guys that
25:26were there a
25:26couple years ago they had a a big barren ground grizzly try and get into their cabin the little
25:31shack they were staying in and they opened the door and he sat there like a big buddha and he
25:36was a big
25:37gentleman and he just wasn't in any hurry to go away the team adds safety precautions in case they run
25:43into any bears in the wilderness the best way to deal with unpredictable bears is to avoid them if that's
25:51not
25:51possible making as much noise as you can in the woods is critical as is having bear spray and shotguns
25:59as backup if they show up you got to be ready to defend yourself it's not the first line in
26:06defense
26:06to go shooting a grizzly bear it's to scare them away and to make them realize you're just not a
26:11target of opportunity and you're not their next meal we're staying in a cabin that's been ravaged by bears
26:21almost certainly a grizzly bear in the past been here for three days now we've generated enough
26:28cooking smells at the local bear proprietor of the establishment here has come to see who's in this
26:35cabin it came up looked at the ridge sat up and looked at us you could see the huge big
26:41hump on the
26:42guy the team retreats into the cabin for safety aware that if the bear wants to get inside it will
26:52it's a good reminder for everyone to be vigilant and conscious of the wildlife surrounding them
26:58no running you know when you see a bear don't run away face the bear look the bear check the
27:03bear's
27:03behavior okay number one thing is if it's a bear ground grizzly if if he's coming to investigate
27:10he's coming to investigate we're not going to be able to harass him enough to push him off like a
27:14black bear he's going to be sticking around here so we just have to be mindful of that
27:20it is decided that when the team is on the move one person will always have a shotgun just in
27:27case
27:27how many of us can carry a gun well you you know how to handle them
27:32jd knows how to handle he and i will be armed all the time david can handle them i'd prefer
27:37nobody else grabs a gun if they unless they have to unless the bear's got me then grab a gun
27:43and shoot
27:43me shoot something you know but i doubt if that's going to happen and i tell everybody and we all
27:50have
27:50the same sort of um understanding if the bear's not chewing on the end of your gun or he's not
27:55chewing on
27:55a person then he's fine you know scare him away shoot the rubber bullets at him whatever do not kill
28:01the bear we're going to have to sort of shovel debris out safe warm dry we're going to shed all
28:10our tents to save weight there might be propane on site so we can shed gas for the coleman stove
28:17using the out camp allows the team to pack lighter and more efficiently and not get bogged down
28:23transporting unessential equipment joe realizes that they will need to secure fuel for the trip
28:30aircrafts fighting the forest fires are rightfully taking the priority so acquiring fuel is a challenge
28:37fuel is the lifeblood of that whole thing you can go without a meal for a day but you can't
28:41go out with
28:41a gallon of gas when you have no place to go right or we get stuck someplace but you just
28:45need to be
28:46self-sufficient because you're a couple hundred miles from 300 miles from any major community it
28:53takes hours to get to and from various points in the north even by plane they can't handle a lot
28:59of
28:59weight meaning only the necessary gear fuel and personnel are allowed adding to these considerations
29:07is the dense fog enveloping the province which will make landing and taking off extremely difficult
29:13and we're having to go way east in manitoba to avoid the smoke because the visibility is down to
29:18a quarter mile in smoke it's really hard to fly in the quarter mile it is if you're unless you're
29:24flying on instruments which most of these smaller aircraft cannot do so the fires themselves have
29:29caused some peripheral problems for us but they themselves the only problem with them is the smoke
29:38because now we have visibility problems we've got visibility down to a quarter mile
29:45some of the other places we looked at flying out the roads are closed now the team majorly modifies
29:50their travel plans for the northern expedition because of the record-breaking wildfires throughout
29:56manitoba but we still can get to thompson it would be very unfortunate if thompson gets cut off because
30:05that's where everyone's evacuating to that would be a horrible thing fortunately we are well north of
30:12where the fires the closest fire to us is probably 250 or 300 miles by going through the city of
30:18thompson
30:19which is in north central manitoba they will avoid the dangerous fires and our team will be through
30:26thompson into thompson by thursday and it looks like the way the fires are going and the weather's
30:31going they'll be safe and they'll get there we're going to have fog we're going to have rain it could
30:35still be you know miserable freaking conditions however we should be golden in terms of safety we're not
30:41going to get burned out we're not going to have to evacuate the route we're taking and the aircraft
30:46we're taking aren't uh taking away any resources from evacuating people we're also not putting our
30:52team into the way of the fire because we're going east and then north of it the change of aircraft
30:58requires a new weight calculation of what they can bring and how many trips it will take today jd is
31:06weighing all this all the equipment because every pound it's not how much you can fit in an airplane
31:10is how much the load load it can carry is all poundage the team continues planning the northern
31:17trip the manitoba provincial wildfire forces joe and david to reassess every aspect of the trip
31:24from transportation food supplies and people okay so we're right here right now winnipeg we're way up
31:33here the manitoba borders here lodge is here windy bay camp is right up here herne bay is kind of
31:40halfway in
31:40between actually it's uh south of hidden valley location i'll get a bigger map since we've got
31:46this map out let's i'll get a hold of jj he's out weighing equipment and trying to get the load
31:50because it's it's continuously changed so the sort of three flights we have organized now i'll get in
31:55here he can tell us who's going where and what they're doing this final expedition is testing the
32:03faraheim team like no other expedition before the pressure they've put on themselves to find the
32:10lost cairn is immense how's it going with weighing the equipment because man we can shed weight now
32:16we're really we're really heavy go up to david's looking at hern bay roads to the east and to the
32:23west are ablaze this road right now is not because it's open for evacuation the wildfires are closing
32:30almost all transportation routes into and out of northern and central manitoba most often there is only one
32:37road in and one road out once you get far enough north the roads end entirely most of the fires
32:46are
32:46here prevailing winds are here we've got to avoid the smoke here so we've got to get through the smoke
32:50to get to here once we're up here we should be golden because everything's south of us and we get
32:56out of the tree line there are no fires currently burning up here the risk of significant injuries
33:02is there but we've got a way to support that and medevac people out from the health and safety side
33:09you know from the logistics side weather and planes weather goes bad and planes break so we
33:17have three sets of airlifts going in what are you taking in i'm taking in enough gear that we're going
33:25to be able to survive so one thing we should check in the next couple days is what the weather
33:29forecast is
33:30going to be up there because it's all low rainy stuff it's going to rain yeah you can get in
33:35there
33:35but you're going to be miserable that's what's going to happen if we get rain up north you can see
33:38all
33:39this morning you couldn't see across the river now it looks like a normal summer day if we get this
33:45we're made in the shade or made in the sun depending on how you look at it even in all
33:50this planning
33:51thoughts turn to the task at hand finding the can what's the resolution of the lidar i'd have to look
33:57at
33:57specs like where i'm going with this is we're looking for something that's we think six to ten
34:02feet by six to ten feet by six feet tall whatever that turns like a couple meters by a couple
34:07meters
34:08by two or three meters will that software actually go hey here's something that meets that no or do you
34:13actually have to go through every single thing you can give it parameters to see things within that
34:19range so you could have it so that hey show me what's in a range that you think what we
34:26need to see is
34:26going to be visible right so you can clear off tree tops or in the reverse you could also clear
34:32off low-lying grounds you can only see high points yeah which is what you're asking because the pro the
34:38problem we may have is you know the report is from 90 years ago and the uh and what's rotted
34:45since or or
34:47been disassembled or fallen over you know so we're thinking a cube you know or something with you know flat
34:54sides and may not be that anymore is it going to be 15 20 minutes of just going like you
34:59know that
34:59looks like something that looks like something or how are we going to be able to identify yeah like
35:03like i mean the the longest part is going to be the computation of actually processing the data itself
35:10after that you're going to get your full point cloud mesh and you'll be able to then identify what
35:16you think is a potential search area all we need is uh the weather to cooperate so it doesn't go
35:21down
35:21to zero zero all through the north should we go look at gear yeah let's go away some gear
35:27the team will make some difficult decisions on what gear they can afford to bring on this trip
35:33having just received permission to stay at the out camp will allow them to pack less camping gear
35:38and bring other essential items one of the things johan's been doing as logistics manager for the trip is
35:47that's all we've got it's what we need to get up there what we need to do the searching and
35:53what
35:53we need to live i know we have to shed weight and we have the opportunity to shed weight so
35:59how much
35:59weight did we shed with the tents yeah you know what the cots weigh 20 pounds each 10 cots 200
36:04pounds
36:05oh it's been terrible wow the weight just adds up the pictures i've seen of the of the of the
36:10place
36:10we're not going to need cots no cots nope it's all bunks a sleeping bag if it's eight pounds
36:17by 10 it's 80 pounds they're safer than tents so we don't have to worry so much about bear
36:22perimeter guards and and you know patrols or anything like that so so the great unknown is the
36:28mosquitoes now mother nature may not cooperate and and mechanical stuff might break but we've got
36:35a place to stay where we're all going to be safe the budget for this trip will also
36:40have to be carefully watched if no one is paying attention to even just the flight or fuel costs
36:46it will quickly put the whole operation in jeopardy so we save about 24 000 going in 24 000 going
36:54out
36:54and we've got to get a caravan twice out of winnipeg so that adds but we're still down probably
37:0075 80 000 from original budget while planning for a successful trip they must also plan for the worst
37:08case scenario at the same time neglecting to bring even one vital piece of equipment could end the
37:15trip early we've had nine changes in the last like three days being on the edge of something where
37:22things could go terribly wrong which is not a great experience
37:30we're searching for viking evidence of viking exploration on the hudson bay coast we do have
37:34opportunity to do some original research that's going to be really interesting from what we've
37:39learned about the cairn and farley moat and the peoples up there we have the fires burning out of
37:44control and now we can't get helicopters okay let's do something else well we need something to get us
37:49around let's use the cessna 185 on floats we have three sets of airlifts going in a place to stay
37:57where
37:57we're all going to be safe we've got enough food and water to survive fishing is going to be awesome
38:03and i know that jj and joe are going to fix it and i know it's going to be good
38:07and i trust the crew
38:08that we're going with we've had to eliminate a couple of folks we'd like to have with us because
38:12we just don't have the lifting capacity for them no space or no way to get them around once we
38:17get
38:17there but we've got all the core things guys look what i got i got the flag hey mac oh
38:25sweet oh that
38:27thing i've seen some things yeah this one's been in circulation for a while 1937 seen some what's
38:34what's the writing in the back side here what's that say it tells uh it says afghanistan mckenzie
38:40brings out an old explorers club flag the flag was awarded to the faraheim team to commemorate this
38:47trip ce fox 1937 probably the first time it went out yeah that's the first flicks it's been repaired
38:55look at that it really was in bad shape the explorers club is a prestigious globally recognized
39:02organization founded in 1904 that supports and promotes scientific exploration and research
39:09around the world and beyond the explorers club is a organization with its headquarter in new york
39:15that has been in around for 120 years and it focuses on being the world leader in exploration
39:21in support of science and it really focuses on learning more about the planet and helping people
39:26get there so you have to apply and you have to have a good reason to do it has to
39:31be scientific it
39:32can't just be you're on a tour you can't go on a on a arctic you know tour boat to
39:38the north pole
39:39it doesn't qualify you can't be hunting in africa it doesn't qualify it's got to be something that they
39:44think is significant so we get one to go to the coast Hudson bay so this one's been in rotation
39:51for
39:52wow over 100 years been over everywhere across the world not this one specifically but all of them
39:58around 850 times holy smokes it's nice to be recognized and have them give us a flag because
40:07it means we're doing something that isn't just frivolous and we're not going on a vacation we're going
40:12into the middle of some place where we could die years of research and months of planning are finally
40:25put into action for the first day of the trip the team will travel in stages up north to search
40:32the
40:32barons for the lost viking cairn so now we have a plan that seems to work it fits the budget
40:41we've
40:41had to eliminate a couple of folks we'd like to have with us because we just don't have the lifting
40:46capacity for them no space or no way to get them around once we get there but we've got all
40:51the core
40:51things david's a good planner ex-military you know planning and preparation uh you know i'm uh
40:58kind of a get it done kind of guy i've got lots of skills lots of contacts lots of we
41:03can make
41:03anything out of anything jd's inherited a lot of that he's actually better at it in many respects
41:09than i am simply because he's almost more pragmatic i'm a bit of a pollyannish guy always thinking the
41:15best every once in a while he starts from the maybe the medium and what can go wrong and so
41:19on so he's
41:20pretty good at what he does the preparation and planning and risk assessments of all that stuff
41:26uh you get on an expedition where you're trying to do stuff and and nobody dies and you get the
41:31job
41:31done and you uh once you learn you can do that stuff and and and have the self-confidence to
41:38do
41:38that you just keep doing our thing has really just been doing something exciting like i guess well
41:44uncle joe's a bad example because his jobs have always been exciting they're not exactly like a mundane
41:48desk job but i guess for him that transfers into his um like personal life he just always wants to
41:55be on
41:55the move and dad is a little bit more of the the corporate life and i think this side of
42:01it's like
42:01the fun and excitement that he doesn't get in his day job we tend to do the hard stuff and
42:05the fun stuff
42:05it's rewarding in the end but i think uh sometimes the getting there is a stressful part for us
42:11with the conditions they will be facing success is not a guarantee but like their viking ancestors who
42:19didn't set out exploring new worlds because they knew they'd succeed they're setting out because that
42:26is what explorers do
42:59so
43:05you
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