The group once again climbs up the ladders, Turlow re-locks the hatch for the #2 holds, and everyone moves to the #3 hatch which is directly in front of the midship superstructure. Officer Turlow then unlocks the tophatch and everyone descends again.
Link to ship floorplans
Number Three Tweendeck and Lower Hold
The number three tweendeck hold stores most of the expedition's camping and sledding supplies. Sleds, tents, tools, lamps, and rope are all strapped onto pallets or lashed out of the way. Unlike the previous two holds, however, there is nothing stored in the middle of this cargo hold. The large timber and metal-reinforced hatch cover--approximately 20 feet square--to the lower hold is in place, but nothing has been loaded onto it. Turlow explains, "
The lower hold contains the heavy wooden ramp that we'll use to unload the ship alongside Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, so that will be the first item that we'll unload from the ship upon arrival, and therefore we're keeping access to it clear. Aside from the ramp, the lower hold only contains additional fuel drums, so there's nothing to really see down there and we'll instead move on to Tweendeck Hold number four and the refrigerated hold, which is more commonly called the reefer space."
The ritual of turning off the lights, climbing up, locking, walking across the main deck, unlocking, climbing down, and turning on lights is repeated.
Number Four Tweendeck and Refrigerated "Reefer" Hold
Tweendeck hold number four contains another large silver Boeing 247 aeroplane, named the "
Enderby," with its propeller, engines, and outer wing sections removed, crated, and stowed. Turlow points out two features about this #4 tweendeck hold that are unique from the previous tweendeck holds,
"First, you'll notice this twelve-foot-wide sliding hatch set into in the bulkhead; the hatch leads into the refrigerated space that contains our perishable foods. And second, on the far side of this tweendeck hold--on the other side of the Boeing--there is a small, secure room that we'll visit in a moment." Turlow unlocks the large hatch to the reefer hold, slides it open a few feet, and allows everyone to enter the chilled area. Within you see large volumes of hanging frozen meats, stacked wooden crates of foodstuffs, shelves upon shelves of metal tins, and piles of canvas sacks filling any gaps. Along the far wall is a small enclosed area which the First Officer describes as containing the refrigeration equipment. When he unlocks this equipment room, you immediately notice a heavy smell of ammonia and that the area is filled with a large motorized compressor, tanks, ductwork, dials and gauges, steam lines, water pipes, and air vents to the deck above.
Explosives Shed
After everyone completes their inspection of the refrigerated space, the First Officer re-locks the equipment room door, and closes and locks the reefer's large hatch, then he leads everyone across the tweendeck hold past the aeroplane to the structure on the far side. The eight-foot-square shed is a sturdily built of large timbers and is completely surrounded by canvas sacks of cement; its door is locked with a large heavy padlock. Turlow says,
"This room contains our expedition's explosives. I am the only one with the key to his room and I won't be opening it for you today, but this is where we store the dynamite. For protection and to minimize shocks, it is packed in wooden crates that rest within a bed of sand."
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Job. (the tortured one)