Life aboard the polar research vessel SA Agulhas II was an education on its own, according to this report by five ocean climate dynamics master's students who headed into the frigid Southern Ocean in August. One of the students, Ramontsheng Rapolaki of Ladybrand in the Free State, had never seen the ocean until he came to study oceanography at UCT.

Ice meets icebreaker: The SA Agulhas II encounters pancake ice in the Southern Ocean.

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