{"id":40485,"date":"2026-03-30T21:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=40485"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:44:44","slug":"the-scientists-diving-deep-beneath-arctic-ice-to-discover-the-secrets-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=40485","title":{"rendered":"The scientists diving deep beneath Arctic ice to discover the secrets below"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/30\/de205b67-1ae9-4d64-ae4a-f937bd0ea4d7_95f6e832.jpg?itok=kZa3h5Pg&amp;v=1774869138\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As bubbles ripple across a frigid Finnish lake, diver Daan Jacobs emerges from a hole carved out of the thick, crackling ice.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He had dived eight metres (26 feet) beneath the surface in a remote place few see, especially in winter, when snow blankets the ice and temperatures on land approach minus 40 degrees in both Celsius and Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But Jacobs, a biodiversity adviser in the Netherlands, is one of a growing number of fortunate underwater explorers getting to dive beneath the Arctic and Antarctic ice to study the flora and fauna below.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He was part of the Polar Scientific Diving class in the far north of Finland earlier this month, a programme designed by the Finnish Scientific Diving Academy to train the next generation of scientists and researchers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe view is beautiful,\u201d Jacobs says, gulping for air following his 45-minute dive.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The Arctic is <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">warming four times faster<\/span> than the rest of the planet. Higher temperatures at the North Pole spell disaster for the globe, from affecting worldwide weather patterns to causing sea levels to rise.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/article\/3348411\/scientists-diving-deep-beneath-arctic-ice-discover-secrets-below?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As bubbles ripple across a frigid Finnish lake, diver Daan Jacobs emerges from a hole carved out of the thick, crackling ice. He had dived&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19333,12684,5418,8153,11706,2087,4029,1725],"class_list":["post-40485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-arctic","tag-beneath","tag-deep","tag-discover","tag-diving","tag-ice","tag-scientists","tag-secrets","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}