Position: 85° 24.4' N, 37° 24' W, temperature - 34° C, air pressure 1011 hPa, wind 7 knots from the N. Ice drift 0.1 knot towards S. At 0230 hours, we suddenly woke up to the sound of ice ridging - the 100 meter wide lead next to the hovercraft was slowly closing. The 15 cm thick new ice on the lead was now piling up as rubble where the hydro hole was. We started winching while running the engine at maximum power and 50% forward thrust. The hovercraft came slowly up the incline out of the snow pit. The ice activity stopped in the early morning when the lead had narrowed down to 10 meter.

Position: 85° 25.3' N, 37° 26' W, temperature - 34° C, air pressure 1009 hPa, wind 1 knots from the N. Ice drift 0.1 knot towards S. Beautiful day, clear sky and calm. By now the lead next to the hovercraft had widened to about 100 meters. The ice activity was very low. Audun took apart the winch to attempt repair, but windings were cut and burnt - a fatal fault. We have another small winch with

Position: 85° 25.4' N, 37° 49' W, temperature - 31° C, air pressure 1028 hPa, wind 2 knots from the N. Ice drift 0.1 knot towards S. A beautiful day, no wind. We contacted Griffon Hoverworks, Southamton and got an immediate response from a team of engineers including expertise from Deutz, UK. We were able to monitor the hovercraft engine performance using the diagnosis software and e-mail screen shots to UK for scrutiny. From that Deutz, UK engineer J.

Position: 85° 26.1' N, 38° 04' W, temperature - 34° C, air pressure 1034 hPa, wind 7 knots from the S. Ice drift 0.1 knot towards S. Shooting seismic reflection. The NE-SW running crack c. 50 behind the hovercraft that separated the thermistor string from the rest of the camp widened to c. 20 meter. A parallel crack 50 meter in front of the craft opened and became c. 2 meter wide. But at 1200 hours a new crack between the two cut 3 meter to the side of the hovercraft and separated the tent from the craft. About 20 cm of overwater flooded the ice.

Position: 85° 28.4' N, 38° 15' W, temperature - 31° C, air pressure 1030 hPa, wind 2 knots from the N. Ice drift 0.15 knot towards S. Shooting seismic reflection all day. Checked the radiation flux instruments, cleaned IR sensor and removed snow from weather station.

Position: 85° 30.7' N, 38° 22' W, temperature - 35° C, air pressure 1027 hPa, wind 5 knots from the S. Ice drift 0.1 knot to the SE. Had 12 volt supply off from midnight to mid-day as part of checking why our power consumption is so high. The seismic data logging PC with its old battery was the problem - removed the battery and connected the power supply to a 12 volt battery on the engine side. Serviced the air gun and started shooting at 1400 hours. Changed battery on the radiation flux instrument data logger.

Position: 85° 32.6' N, 38° 16' W, temperature - 30° C, air pressure 1028 hPa, wind 6 knot from the NW. Ice drift 0.1 knot to the SE. The solar eclipse was hidden by clouds in the beginning and partly covered during the last phase. Shooting seismic reflection all day, but has to stop at 2300 hours due to leaking air gun. Audun changed memory card on the radiation flux instruments. Hauled buoy #2 and two 70 Ahr car batteries out to the buoy site 1.7 km out, but unable to connect up in the cold.

Position: 85° 34.4' N, 38° 51' W, temperature - 31° C, air pressure 1041 hPa, wind 10 knots from the W. Ice drift 0.2 knot to the SE. Beautiful day with clear sky and the sun. Shooting seismic reflection all day. Audun made a ski trip to search for bathymetry buoy # 4 and # 5 -located one, but was stopped by a wide lead about 4 km out from our camp. E-mail from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate announcing their support for FRAM-2014/15 with NOK. 1.5 mill.

Position: 85° 37.7' N, 39° 45' W, temperature - 36° C, air pressure 1039 hPa, wind 7 knot from the WSW. Ice drift 0.2 knots towards SE. Shooting seismic reflection all day.. Checked radiation flux instruments and weather station - cleaned IR sensor. Audun placed bathymetry buoy # 3 outside for testing with 12 volt supply.

Position: 85° 41.3' N, 40° 21' W, temperature -28° C, air pressure 1022 hPa, wind 3 knots from the W. Ice drift 0.1 knot towards SE. Shooting seismic reflection all day. Large lead opened about 500 meters away to the north of us.