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ДЄutonomous Underwater Vehicles and their operations have the potential to adversely affect the environment, both from the materials they contain and their emissions. If situated 100s of km out in the Arctic ocean, setting up the camp may involve initial personnel flown in via an aircraft such as a Twin Otter, perhaps larger items via paradrops from C130 aircraft, or perhaps equipment and resupply visits from icebreakers, such as for the SHEBA ice camp. In the most complex ice camps AUV operations may be just one activity. All that might be needed were two people, a tent and survival equipment and provisions on a sled.

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At the low logistics end, an ice camp might only be needed for some hours, for example to support a single-person portable AUV such as the 4kg ecoSUB deployed at an ice-covered lake, or into a coastal polynya, or seal breathing hole. ДЄUV operations from ice camps can span a large range of logistics requirements. A separate page, from the link opposite, sets out some of the different type of ice that may be encountered, with the hazard posed to AUV operations and some ideas on mitigating risk. Gathering data from under ice - sea-ice of shelf ice - may well be the prime objective of an AUV mission such that avoiding ice entirely just is not possible. The remainder of this page goes on to deal with what may broadly termed 'Weather' - a major feature of the Polar Environment that invariably impacts directly AUV operations. The following topics are dealt with on separate pages accessed via the links below. This section of the Guide provides some pointers based on experience for both. But, just as important as the impact of the Polar Environment on AUV Operations is the reverse - the possible impact on the Environment of AUV and support operations. While temperatures below freezing and the presence of ice will be among the first hazards that come to mind when considering an AUV expedition to the Polar Regions there are also a myriad of other hazards connected with the Polar Environment.

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