Most people find the sounds of steel creaking to be highly irritating. However, for mechanical engineer Prof Anriëtte “Annie” Bekker, that’s what life is all about. She leads a research programme at Stellenbosch University that examines every vibration, movement and wave that hits South Africa’s polar research ship, the SA Agulhas II.
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