site.btaRSV 421 Enters Drake Passage

The Bulgarian naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) entered the Drake Passage, according to the Facebook page of the Naval Academy. 

Members of the 32nd Antarctic expedition underwent safety training and learnt to how to put on a safety immersion suit and how to use safety floats. 
RSV 421 is on a course east of King George island and is expected to enter the Antarctic Treaty Area in the coming hours. 
 
The vessel is expected to arrive in the South Bay of Livingston Island before the Bulgarian Antarctic base before noon on January 4. 

On New Year’s Eve the vessel aided a motor boat in distress with 13 people aboard near the Drake Passage. 

The RSV 421 departed from Varna on November 8 and is expected to return in April 2024. 

During the 32nd Bulgarian expedition to Antarctica, which started on November 8, 2023, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) is publishing interviews with Antarctic researchers. The Bulgaria-Antarctica BTA's Log again provides coverage of the voyage of the Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii to Antarctica and back and its stay there, as it did during the 31st expedition between December 27, 2022 and May 2, 2023. Back then, only BTA had a correspondent, Daily News Editor Konstantin Karagyozov, who covered the 127-day expedition with text, video and photos during the entire voyage (including across the Atlantic in both directions) and throughout the stay in Antarctica. In June 2023, BTA published in Bulgarian and in English an issue of its LIK magazine "To Antarctica and Back under the Bulgarian Flag" dedicated to the historic expedition. 

Again, all of BTA's information on the Bulgarian scientific research in Antarctica and the support provided by the Bulgarian naval research vessel, as well as on the other activities at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base, will be available to all media outlets in Bulgarian and in English on BTA's website in the Bulgaria - Antarctica: BTA's Log section. 
BTA has a National Press Club on board the ship and is planning to open a National Press Club at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base on Livingston Island.