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(24 diggs) Sailing the Northwest Passage at night
Polar explorer Brge Ousland (How'd you like to have that as your job title?) is on a sailboat making its way through the Arctic Ocean. This has never been an easy place for boats, and this video gives you a good idea of why. The captain of Ousland's boat explains the hazards of this area a little more in-depth, while simultaneously making an important point—thanks to warming trends, traversing the Northwest Passage isn't has hard as it used to be.
It is obvious that the conditions met...
Polar explorer Brge Ousland (How'd you like to have that as your job title?) is on a sailboat making its way through the Arctic Ocean. This has never been an easy place for boats, and this video gives you a good idea of why. The captain of Ousland's boat explains the hazards of this area a little more in-depth, while simultaneously making an important point—thanks to warming trends, traversing the Northwest Passage isn't has hard as it used to be.
It is obvious that the conditions met...
(1 diggs) Survive a Polar Bear Attack
In September of 1994, Alvah Simon motored his 36-foot sailboat into a place few people have heard of, visited, or even noticed on a map – a place called Tay Bay. To give you an idea of where this place is, start in Michigan and go straight north into Canada, straight north across Canada to Hudson Bay, straight north across Hudson Bay to Baffin Island, straight north across Baffin Island to Eclipse Sound, and finally straight north across Eclipse Sound to a little island called Baylot Island.
In September of 1994, Alvah Simon motored his 36-foot sailboat into a place few people have heard of, visited, or even noticed on a map – a place called Tay Bay. To give you an idea of where this place is, start in Michigan and go straight north into Canada, straight north across Canada to Hudson Bay, straight north across Hudson Bay to Baffin Island, straight north across Baffin Island to Eclipse Sound, and finally straight north across Eclipse Sound to a little island called Baylot Island.
(27 diggs) Carbon Neutral Sailboat Rescued by Oil Tanker
The Carbon Neutral Expedition, consisting of two guys and a 40 ft.sailboat, set off on April19; their goal was to reach Greenland's polar ice cap and be the first carbon-neutral crossing of that country. But gale-force winds caused the boat to capsize, destroying the solar panels and generator.
The Carbon Neutral Expedition, consisting of two guys and a 40 ft.sailboat, set off on April19; their goal was to reach Greenland's polar ice cap and be the first carbon-neutral crossing of that country. But gale-force winds caused the boat to capsize, destroying the solar panels and generator.
“St. Nicholas” and “St. Andrew the Apostle” were built by Karelian shipbuilders according to engravings of the White Sea coast-dwellers' sailing boat with use of traditional methods of wooden shipbuilding. The boats have now depart from Petrozavodsk to