Caption: Construction of a 33-foot long hose reel and sledge continues in the UW-Madison Physical Sciences Laboratory in Stoughton, WI, as instrument maker Bart Dana removes a level winder arm which will help coil 1.8 miles of hot water hose evenly around the spindle. The reel, part of a drilling rig for the IceCube neutrino telescope project, will be deployed to Antarctica in the summer of 2003, where hot water will be used to drill through ice. A giant sledge runner sits in the foreground at left.
Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart
Date: December 2002
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