I Sailed Through Northern Quebec in the Depths of Winter on an Ice-breaking Ship That Can Go Almost Anywhere in the World.

It's a complicated question. There's a whole spectrum of ice capability for ships. There are ships with some extra hull protection and some extra protection for propellers and rudders that can go ...

Rapidly melting ice on Alaska's Arctic is opening up a new navigable ocean in the extreme north, allowing oil tankers, fishing vessels and even cruise ships to venture into a realm once trolled ...

A ship of researchers is crossing the Arctic for a year attached to an ice floe. But finding the right chunk of sea ice was a challenge, in part because warmer temperatures are making it thinner.

New Ship Breaks New Grounds, And Old Ice Date: December 31, 2007 Source: European Science Foundation Summary: It can crush ice sideways and stay precisely on station to an accuracy of a meter.

Each new ship is 650 feet long, 115 feet wide and capable of carrying 3,600 shipping containers through waters frozen with 3 feet of ice. But the company is so far downplaying the historic trip as ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — The only U.S. ship capable of breaking through Antarctica’s thick ice is getting scrubbed down, fixed up and loaded with goods in ...

On Aug. 7, 2020, YouTube user MrMBB333 published a video that appeared to show a ship in ice that measured over 400 feet (122 meters) in length. The images were captured from Google Earth. The ...

A Chinese icebreaker boat trying to eat through a dense ice block in Antarctica to rescue 74 people trapped on a ship since Christmas Day has had to halt efforts because the ice is too thick.

We reached the Fortress early in the evening of October 4, crashing into the 1.5-meter-thick ice, which caused the ship to rattle as that ice crumbled beneath the hull and was thrust to the sides.