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Article: Arctic riches are target of icebreakers' journey; U.S., Canadian ships; Healy will be on trip to map disputed undersea territory.(News)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2009
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Byline: Paul Koring; Toronto Globe and Mail
A pair of red-hulled icebreakers -- one Canadian, one a Seattle-based American ship -- will batter their way north into uncharted, ice-infested waters next week, seeking to buttress claims to the vast undersea riches at the top of the world.
"We're headed into the Beaufort Sea, as far north as the ice allows,"said Jacob Verhoef, the National Resources Canada scientist spearheading Canada's effort to map, and eventually claim, a vast swath of the Arctic.
Data gathered by both ships will be shared, but there's no guarantee that the two countries won't eventually be at loggerheads with overlapping ...