Sandalphon User ID: 380499 Canada 05/30/2008 10:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Icebreaker stuck in Ice... how ironic WHAT!!! Icebreaker stuck in the ice in the Arctic? Couldn't be. All of the ice should have been melted by now. LEE TRELOAR Special to The Globe and Mail May 24, 2008 Iam on the bridge of the massive Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov, and the tension is palpable. We have hit ice - thick ice. We are travelling from the northeastern corner of Russia, across the Bering Sea and the top of Canada to Resolute Bay in Nunavut. At least that's the plan. We haven't even reached Canadian waters and we are already in trouble. The ice master studies the mountains of white packed around the ship while the 24,000-horsepower diesel engines work at full throttle to open a path. The ship rises slowly onto the barrier of ice, crushes it and tosses aside blocks the size of small cars as if they were ice cubes in a glass. It creeps ahead a few metres, then comes to a halt, its bow firmly wedged in the ice. After doing this for two days, the ship can go no farther. The ice master confers with the captain, who makes a call to the engine room. The engines are shut down. He turns to those of us watching the drama unfold, and we are shocked by his words: "Now, only nature can help this ship." We are doomed to drift. [ link to www.theglobeandmail.com] |
mercury2
User ID: 90066 France 05/30/2008 10:54 AM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Icebreaker stuck in Ice... how ironic Where's all the gullible fools who think all the ice at the north pole has melted? Even icebreakers can't get through - duh. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 380499 Canada 05/30/2008 01:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Icebreaker stuck in Ice... how ironic And the only polar bear living up there was spotted.
"In the distance, a polar bear, puzzled by this huge intruder in its territory, provides a welcome diversion for an hour." |
malu
User ID: 421073 United States 05/30/2008 01:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Icebreaker stuck in Ice... how ironic
we have icebreakers come into port from the us coast guard, i have been on a few, they are very impressive! i can not imagine being stuck in ice with one, what the heck are you going to do? wait for the global warming? "By way of deception, thou shalt do war."
Israel's Mossad
"The truth shall set you free."
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Motto |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 442752 United Kingdom 05/30/2008 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Icebreaker stuck in Ice... how ironic And the only polar bear living up there was spotted.
"In the distance, a polar bear, puzzled by this huge intruder in its territory, provides a welcome diversion for an hour."
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 380499ah, but was he WET? after all, he MUST have been what with all that swimming the poor bugger has been doing lately!!! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 442728 Canada 05/30/2008 02:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Icebreaker stuck in Ice... how ironic And the only polar bear living up there was spotted.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 380499a spotted polar bear? |
mercury2
User ID: 90066 France 05/30/2008 02:11 PM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Icebreaker stuck in Ice... how ironic And the only polar bear living up there was spotted.
a spotted polar bear?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 442728Aaaargh. |