site.btaRSV 421 to Carry Out Cargo-unloading Activities for Bulgarian Antarctic Base

The crew of the Bulgarian naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421), together with the logistics group of the Bulgarian Antarctic base, will carry out cargo-unloading activities for the Bulgarian base, the ship's Commanding Officer, Commander Radko Muevski, told BTA on Saturday.

Ornithologists Boyan Michev and Iliya Vatev will also come ashore to study the penguins.

RSV 421 spent the night at anchor in the South Bay of Livingston Island in front of the Bulgarian Antarctic base St. Kliment Ohridski. Due to a poor weather forecast for the coming evening, after the day's activities are completed, the ship will change position and drop anchor in Johnson's Dock bay.

The Bulgarian naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) departed from Varna for its third Antarctic expedition on November 7, 2024, and arrived at Livingston Island on December 28.

BTA has a national press club on the vessel and at the Bulgarian Antarctic base St. Kliment Ohridski. This is the third consecutive year that BTA has sent a correspondent to Antarctica, after Konstantin Karagyozov embarked on RSV 421's maiden voyage to the icy continent and back. This year's BTA correspondent is Milena Ostrovska, who arrived at the the St Kliment Ohridski Bulgarian Antarctic Base on Livingston Island base on Livingston Island on January 17. Emil Granicharov was BTA's special correspondent to Antarctica during last year's expedition.