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Rapid ice growth follows the 2016 seasonal minimum - RECOGNIZE EARLY WEATHER...
Rapid ice growth follows the seasonal minimum, rapid drop in Antarctic...
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The explorer who made the last trek across the North Pole explains how the...
http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-larsen-on-thin-ice-north-pole-arctic-expedition-2016-10Kevin LoriaCourtesy CitizenEric Larsen got his start as a polar explorer working as a dog musher in the...
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Experts said Arctic sea ice would melt entirely by September 2016 - they were...
A polar bear on an ice floe CREDIT: JOSH ANON/REX/SHUTTERSTOCKSarah Knapton, science...
View ArticleProper route planning and enroute transit includes checking USCG Local Notice...
How many of you check USCG Local Notice to Mariners (LNTM)?BEFORE AND DURING A TRANSIT?Know your USCG District number in order to check - http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=lnmMainYou may have...
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Scientists Spend Arctic Winter Adrift on Sea Ice Using Hovercraft
https://eos.org/project-updates/scientists-spend-arctic-winter-adrift-on-sea-iceA hovercraft-based ice drift station gives researchers access to previously inaccessible regions of the changing Arctic...
View ArticleLED lightbar helps time and time again when cruising
Got your LED lightbar mounted on your boat?Wish you did when picking your way through sea ice or trying to run at night and avoid growlers...Don't leave home port without them...Published on Oct 11,...
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What does S/V NORTHABOUT and S/V EAGLES QUEST II have in common? SHIP OF FOOLS?
http://polarocean.co.uk/funny-thing-finally-colleague-bought-boat-eagles-quest-ii-im-captain-passage-see-no-ice-anymore-just-4-years-waiting-no-ice/The funny thing is that when finally my colleague...
View ArticleS/V YVINEC by Guirec Soudee achieves No. 254 Northwest Passage over Route 6...
Published on Oct 12, 2016Voyage d'Yvinec - Guirec Soudéehttps://www.facebook.com/GuirecSoudee...Images JPPROD / Jean-Philippe Mériglierhttps://www.facebook.com/JP-PROD-1268...FR : Notre expérience au...
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S/V NORTHABOUT hookwinks public with claim of Arctic Circumnavigation and...
circumnavigateverb cir·cum·nav·i·gate \-ˈna-və-ˌgāt\Simple Definition of circumnavigate: to travel all the way around (something) in a ship, airplane, etc.Full Definition of circumnavigatetransitive...
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ARCTIC OIL SPILL - not IF, but WHEN - "Clean Up?" Not in any sense of the...
Oil Spill Near Bella Bella Exposes B.C.'s Deficient Oil Spill Response RegimeBy Carol Linnitt • Thursday, October 13,...
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Russia to develop icebreaker able to clear passage through 5-meter ice
Russia plans to develop a super-powerful icebreaker that will be able to operate in any ice situation and clear a passage through a 5-meter ice, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on...
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Northwest Passage - your vessel will be tested repeatedly - BERING SEA, GULF...
“Cheeki Rafiki” Loss Update(BLOGGER INSERT - OR WHY YOU SHOULD NOT TAKE A PRODUCTION YACHT ON AN ARCTIC NORTHWEST PASSAGE AND THINK ITS A PRUDENT DECISION)John Published Oct 13,...
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Barrow votes to change city name to Utqiagvik
Alaska town votes to change its nameCOPYLink copied!RACHEL D'OROANCHORAGE, Alaska —Residents in the nation's northernmost community have voted to change the name of the Alaska town to its traditional...
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Epic Northwest Passage voyage planned for Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017
Epic voyage planned for Canada's 150th anniversaryTrip to start in Toronto and finish in Victoria after transiting Northwest PassageBy Jimmy Thomson, CBC News Posted: Oct 15, 2016...
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The MAUD floats again after being raised from the depths near Cambridge Bay...
The Maud floats again after being raised from the depthsBY KAREN GRAHAM IN SCIENCEOslo - It has been over 80 years since the Maud, Polar explorer Roald Amundsen's ship sank in 1930 near what is now...
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Cape Dorset annual print exhibition celebrates Inuit art
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/north/cape-dorset-annual-print-exhibition-2016-1.3805965Cape Dorset annual print exhibition celebrates Inuit art‘Its popularity just gets stronger every year,’ says...
View ArticleMore Arctic Sea Ice Forecast for 2017 - BASIS? MISLEADING DATA?
Published on Sep 19, 2016Professor Peter Wadhams from Cambridge University and the Arctic Methane Emergency Group have made incorrect after incorrect call for ice to decrease to 1 million square...
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Unimak Pass Alaska tides & currents may put your life and yacht at extreme...
Where is Unimak Pass? The simple answer is at the west end of the Alaska Penninsula and the east end of the Aleutian Islands.Sometimes a graphic makes orientation clearer.with a closer image...Unimak...
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St. George village in the Bering Sea wants to surround itself with a marine...
http://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2016/10/16/bering-sea-village-wants-to-surround-itself-with-a-marine-sanctuary/Residents of the smaller of two villages in the Pribilof Islands are asking...
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Paying attention to details - Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport -...
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearhead-class_expeditionary_fast_transportUSNS Spearhead (EPF-1) during sea trials in 2012Class overviewBuilders:Austal USAOperators: United States...
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