Adventure Links of the Week – Explorersweb »

When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the web. Here are some of the best adventure links we’ve discovered this week. A Dozen People Will Spend 8 Months Trapped in Arctic Ice: Next month, 12 scientists and crew members will deliberately freeze themselves into the Arctic sea ice in a custom-built research vessel. They will spend the next eight months drifting. The Tara Polaris I expedition’s goal is to answer biological questions about life in the central Arctic Ocean, from whether fish reproduce beneath the ice to how ecosystems are changing as the region warms. The floating research facility will be the most remote in the world, and though they will be in constant contact with land teams, help will be at least one week away.  Swim parallel or not? Everything You Know About Surviving Rip Currents is Wrong: For decades, beach safety advice has been simple: if you’re caught in a rip current, swim parallel to shore. But research by Jaime MacMahan suggests that guidance isn’t always the safest option. Drawing on years of field experiments, MacMahan argues that many rip currents naturally circulate back toward the beach, meaning staying calm and
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