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Large sections of ice out on the St. Lawrence River mid-day as we paddled on the lovely Spring Equinox. ice sheets brought together by current and high winds we had to paddle through.
The CCGS Pierre Radisson is upbound on the Detroit River at Windsor. She will provide some extra assistance in breaking ice on the upper lakes.
Ariel breaks ice on the Bridgewater Canal at Daresbury, loaded with coal and diesel for her customers
Winterspaziergang an der Elbe bei Neumühlen.
Camera: Sony NEX-6
Lens: Sony SEL 1018
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near the Upsala glacier... El Calafate, Argentina, our boat had just passed this large ice berg, when i heard a loud boom and cracking sound, #2 in the series. an amazing moment!
photo by Angela Sevin, Oakland, CA USA
Finnish icebreakers KONTIO and OTSO at Helsinki.
A surreal view, as you might think you are in a park. And then, a ship there...
The icebreaker was built by Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle upon Tyne under the supervision of Yevgeny Zamyatin. The vessel was launched as the Svyatogor on 3 August 1916 and completed in February 1917. Up to the beginning of the 1950s she remained the most powerful icebreaker in the world.
the sightseeing boat mary poppins moored next to the 1933 built preserved icebreaker stettin in hamburg
It was the annual company conference today.
And of course, the inevitable icebreakers to get us all talking to each other and livened up.
So we each got given a slip of paper with a name on it. Then told to find our partner during the morning reception coffee meeting.
As far as conference icebreakers go, it was one of the better ones we've done. Not sure how I felt about being Angelina Jolie though.
From the icy waters of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, this otter slides across the thin ice, from one icehole to another.
Icebreaker MS Sisu, at its summer dock, Katajanokka, Helsinki, Finland.
An icebreaker is a special purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters. Although this article mainly discusses icebreaking ships, the term can refer to smaller vessels (e.g., icebreaking boats that were used on the Canals of Great Britain in the days of commercial carrying).
For a ship to be considered an icebreaker it requires three components: a strengthened hull, an ice-clearing shape, and the power to push through, none of which are possessed by most normal ships.
To pass through ice-covered water, an icebreaker uses its great momentum and power to drive its bow up onto the ice, breaking the ice under the immense weight of the ship. Because a buildup of broken ice in front of a ship can slow it down much more than the breaking of the ice itself, the speed of the ship is increased by having a specially designed hull to direct the broken ice around or under the vessel . The external components of the ship's propulsion system (propellers, propeller shafts, etc.) are at even greater risk of damage than the vessel's hull, so the ability for an icebreaker to propel itself onto the ice, break it, and successfully clear the debris from its path is essential for its safety. (Wikipedia)
Arguably one of the hardest working ships in the fleet, it was a rare treat to see the CCGS Louis St. Laurent moored at rest in St. John's, especially against this sky!
Taken at: 47.565226, -52.692062
The CCGS Pierre Radisson is upbound on the Detroit River at Windsor. She will provide some extra assistance in breaking ice on the upper lakes.
I took this picture this morning, on my way from the logging camp (a decomissioned Coast Guard supply ship) where I stayed the night, out to open water that a floatplane could land on. The ice layer on the inlet was probably about 8cm thick. Listening to the alumnium hulled boat cut its way through it was pretty scary. We did not have any cold water survival suits and the rowboat we were towing would not have carried all 10 of us.
The fresh water rivers run into a long narrow fjord and make a freshwater layer on top that freezes. The whole salt ocean does not freeze. But there was about 6 or 8 km of frozen inlet between us and open water. And the lead we made breaking the way in to camp had frozen over overnight. Every day it gets thicker. I hope the people that stayed up there do not get trapped. They would need to call in a helicopter to get out if that happened...