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Article: The Big Chill.(scientists embed ship in ice floe for a year)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- February 8, 1999
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Join SCIENTISTS ON A SHIP STUCK IN ICE FOR ONE YEAR!
Pack your bags--for an entire year. Make sure to stow plenty of long underwear, parkas, and' life vests. You're setting sail to one of the most bitterly cold, remote stretches on Earth--the Arctic Ocean. Oh, and get ready to be chased by hungry polar bears, to brave bone-chilling winds, and to tread on ice so thin you could plunge into frigid waters at any moment. Sound like Club Med--or Club "Mad"?
In the fall of 1997, a team of "mad" scientists set out aboard the 98-meter- (322-foot) long ship Des Groseilliers, a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker. They purposely rammed the ship into a vast Arctic ice ...