Issued 05:30 PM EDT 21 August 2019FridayWind southeast 30 knots.
SaturdayWind south 20 knots veering to west 20.
SundayWind light becoming east 15 knots.
Shifting anchorage to Gascoyne Inlet 74°39′59.3″N 91°17′18.6″WShip listening station in Gascoyne Inlet using submarine cable into Barrow Strait underway array.
An eight-year effort to develop year-round surveillance capability in Canada’s melting Arctic waters was only ever able to monitor marine traffic remotely twice for a few weeks during the hospitable northern summers.
As Canada prepares to spend more than $130 million on new proposals to keep watch over the Arctic, the quiet conclusion reached by military scientists involved in the previous technology demonstration project was that constant tracking of the cruise ships, fishing vessels and hostile forces was a possibility — but a distant one.
“For the purposes of our tech demo, what we did was more in line with what we could afford to do,” Garry Heard, head of underwater surveillance and communications with Defence Research and Development Canada — the military’s science wing — told the Star in an interview.
The so-called Northern Watch project grew out of former prime minister Stephen Harper’s 2005 election pledge to create a “national sensor system” in the Arctic to monitor Canadian waters for submarines and other marine vessels.
References:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster_Soundhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon_Islandhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundas_Harbourhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parry_(explorer)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parry_Channel
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