Polar Pod, an oceanographic platform ship, has been specially designed to drift around Antarctica driven by a circumpolar current, like a satellite. It's a technological & scientific achievement! Not only will it enable the acquisition of long-term data and observations to be transmitted to researchers, oceanographers, climatologists and biologists, it will also be used to run a major international educational project on life, Earth and environmental sciences in “real time”, in collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (UICN).