{"id":40030,"date":"2026-02-23T13:05:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/?p=40030"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:05:11","slug":"3y0k-dxpedition-departs-cape-town-for-bouvet-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/2026\/02\/23\/3y0k-dxpedition-departs-cape-town-for-bouvet-island\/","title":{"rendered":"3Y0K DXPedition departs Cape Town for Bouvet Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"viewer-a6lf33320\">The 3Y\u00d8K team departed Cape Town this morning aboard&nbsp;the Danish registered vessel&nbsp;Argus&nbsp;from Icetugs, beginning the 1,500\u2011nautical\u2011mile transit to Bouvet Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-34g903322\">Argus&nbsp;completed scheduled maintenance and survey work prior to her arrival in Cape Town, ensuring full readiness for the voyage. Earlier this week, the expedition helicopter was loaded, inspected, and secured on deck. Both the vessel and the aircraft have successfully passed all required inspections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-r0si03324\">We appreciate the strong commitment demonstrated by the pilots, mechanic,&nbsp;expedition guides&nbsp;and vessel crew as we move forward together&nbsp;as one team to make this a&nbsp;successful expedition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-11dd13326\">The captain and crew are performing excellently, and the team is enjoying good meals prepared by the ship\u2019s chef.&nbsp;Despite&nbsp;encountering rough seas during the first day at sea, preparations continue onboard as we expect to arrive at Bouvet on February&nbsp;26th&nbsp;at approximately 08:00 local time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more &#8211; Ham Radio World: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamradioworld.org\/post\/3y0k-bouvet-isl\">https:\/\/www.hamradioworld.org\/post\/3y0k-bouvet-isl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3Y\u00d8K team departed Cape Town this morning aboard&nbsp;the Danish registered vessel&nbsp;Argus&nbsp;from Icetugs, beginning the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_16139062_16139062":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"twitter_16139062_16139062","service":"twitter","timestamp":1771896854,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5791,1050,102],"class_list":["post-40030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsreel","tag-3y0k","tag-bouvet-island","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40031,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40030\/revisions\/40031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}