This results in very poor visibility and a dangerous working condition. Please visit my memorial page with photos and tributes from friends and family. The photo on the plaque is one of several provided to me by his family. Casey A.
He was digging out snow from the vertical air intake shaft in the fan room when he was crushed to death by snow that fell down from the shaft on top of him. The fan room, also known as the blue room, was a small unheated plenum arch off of the main entrance that was built to circulate fresh air through the domed station after it became buried. Here are some photos and a link to the memorial page by Martha Kane Savage, who was there.
The photo on the plaque is from the Palmer winterover composite on display in the GWR stairwell at Palmer Station. He died of methanol poisoning which became evident after he experienced breathing problems while walking back to the dome from his lab across the skiway.
The photo on the plaque is one of many on the CARA memorial and tribute page; here are links to these and other information sources. But sleep didn't help. Instead, things just got worse—much worse. At a. He went to the station's doctor, Robert Thompson, three times over the course of the day, and with each visit, his symptoms appeared to grow more excruciating. Pain burned through his joints and stomach.
His eyes were so sensitive that he had to wear sunglasses even though the sun hadn't risen over the base in several weeks. As his physical condition deteriorated, so did his mental state: He became so agitated that the doctor wondered if anxiety wasn't the cause of his symptoms.
When Marks visited the physician the third time that day, he was distressed to the point of hyperventilation. Thompson injected him with an antipsychotic to calm him down. Marks laid back and his breathing slowed.
To the untrained observer, it may have looked as though he was getting better. But that's not what was happening. Shortly after receiving the shot, Marks went into cardiac arrest, and after 45 minutes of unsuccessful resuscitation attempts, Thompson declared him dead at p.
As soon as the fight to save his life ended, the 49 people living at the base were faced with a new problem: a dead body in one of the most remote places on earth, at a time of year when it was too cold for planes to land. It would be months before an aircraft was able to collect Marks's remains—and years before it was revealed that there was a chance he had been murdered.
Death is rare in Antarctica, but not unheard of. Many explorers perished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in their quests to reach the South Pole, and potentially hundreds of bodies remain frozen within the ice. In the modern era, more Antarctic fatalities are caused by freak accidents. Three scientists were riding a Muskeg tractor across the tundra in when the vehicle plunged into a crevasse, killing everyone on board.
In , Amundsen-Scott Station cook Casey Jones died while attempting to clear snow from a shaft in a fan room when the packed snow collapsed and crushed him. There's also a history of violence on the continent. According to one unconfirmed story reported in Canadian Geographic , a scientist working at Russia's Vostok Station in snapped after losing a chess game and murdered his opponent with an axe.
Chess was supposedly banned from Russia's Antarctic bases after that. More recently, in October , a Russian scientist working in Antarctica allegedly stabbed his colleague following a possible nervous breakdown. With some of these crimes, the Antarctic setting itself may have played a role. Scientists living in Antarctica are forced to share cramped quarters with the same group of people for months at a time. Contact with the outside world is limited, and depending on the weather, going for a walk to clear the mind isn't always an option.
You're far away from the people that form your normal social network. The NSF revised its account on Thursday, saying the pilot was on the ground a short distance away waiting for the pair to complete their work. He walked up a hill to the generator to check on them when they failed to return to the helicopter landing site at the agreed time.
One of the workers was pronounced dead by medical personnel called to the scene and the other a short time later at the McMurdo medical clinic, the NSF said. Some people, including scientists and support personnel, work at the station this time of year. While the science foundation, a U. He also said the deaths were believed to have resulted in all likelihood from some kind of accident or mishap. West said he was not at liberty to disclose more about the investigation.
NSF also declined to disclose any personal information about the two workers, except to say they were employed by a Virginia-based company, PAE, which in turn was hired by the U.
PAE did not respond to requests for comment.
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