(FILES) A bell is pictured on the bridge of the RRS Sir David Attenborough, while moored at Harwich International Port in Harwich, eastern England on October 6, 2025, ahead of the ship's departure to undertake research in the Antarctic later in the month as part of British Antarctic Survey. Britain's flagship polar research vessel heads to Antarctica on October 17, to help advance dozens of climate change-linked science projects, as Western nations spearhead polar studies while the United States withdraws. The RRS Sir David Attenborough, a state-of-the-art ship named after the famous UK naturalist, will aid research on everything from "hunting underwater tsunamis" to tracking glacier melt and whale populations. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)