A group of scientists who worked together for months at the Antarctica remote research station is needed after a team member is charged with attack.
About 10 researchers usually remain in the South African base, which sits about 170 km (about 105 miles) from the edge of the ice shelf and it is difficult to come.
But a spokesman for the South African government said to the BBC “to attack” at the station, after earlier charges of inappropriate behavior from the camp.
In the further message the BBC saw, the South African Ministry of Environment said it responded to concern with the “greatest rush”.
The South African Sunday Times, who first reported the story, said that team members begged themselves to be saved.
The ministry also said that those from the team were subject to “numerous evaluation that included background checks, reference checks, medical assessment as well as a psychometric assessment of qualified professionals”, which all members cleaned.
The research base of the Sanae IV is more than 4,000 km from continental South Africa, and sharp weather conditions mean that scientists can be deducted most of the year.
It was expected that the current team would be at the base of the Sanae IV until December.
South African research expeditions have been going on since 1959. The team in the base of Saena IV usually consists of a doctor, two mechanics, three engineers, a meteorological technician and several doctors.
These expeditions, with severe weather conditions, who have prescribed a lot of time spent indoors, usually run without an incident, and team members have to undergo a number of psychological estimates before traveling.
But on Sunday, South African Sunday reported that a member of the team had sent an E -one -to -warning of a “deeply disturbing behavior” by a colleague and “environment of fear”.
A spokesman for the South African government told the BBC that the alleged attack launched a “dispute over the task that the team leader wanted to do the team – the task dependent on the time demanding a change of schedule.”
Incidents in Antarctica are rare, but they are not unprecedented. In 2018, there were reports on stitches at the Bellingshausen Research Station operated on Russian.
Psychologists indicate an effect that insulation can have on human behavior.
“One thing we know from these rare phenomena, when something bad happens in forced isolation or capsule, is that these are often small things, small things that can be done into a conflict,” said Craig Jackson, a health psychology professor at the University of Birmingham City, and an authorized member of the British psychological society.
“So the problems of hierarchy, about the distribution of working load, even small things about free time or meals or parts of food can be quickly spoiled to get something much larger than they usually are,” he told the BBC.
Gabrielle Walker, a scientist and author who was on the expedition in Antarctica, said working in such a immediate vicinity of a small group of colleagues was risk.
“You know exactly how they lowered a cup of coffee and in which direction the handle is directed; you know they spend their nose three times before they sit down; you know everything about them.
“And in bad circumstances, it can start irritating you … because there is nothing else – there is no other incentive, and you are 24/7 with people,” she said.
Sources within the Antarctic Research Community told the BBC that South Africa has access to a ship and an aircraft that can be connected to the ice as needed.
But any rescue operation should fight with a sharp climate, with temperatures significantly below freezing and the possibility of strong winds.
