Samm
April 11th, 2009, 5:23 pm
Katie bar the door!... The Northwest Passage may soon be open for ordinary ships! :eek:
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At least that is what they were saying in 1946. ;)
Where was Al Gore when they needed him? :think: ... oh yeah... he wasn't yet even a twinkle in his Daddy's eye. :D
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/09/was-2007-arctic-ice-really-a-historic-minimum/
I also direct you to the comment a bit down that page:
Don Libbey (19:48:51) :
In 1944, the Canadian RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) vessel St. Roch returned to Vancouver by way of Lancaster Sound and the Northwest Passage route in just 86 days. Previously, from 1940 to1942, it had traveled the passage from west to east via a more southerly route leaving Vancouver in June 1940 and, after spending 2 winters frozen in the Arctic ice, arrived in Halifax 11 October, 1942.
St Roch was only the second vessel, after Amundsen (1903 - 1906), to traverse the passage and the first to navigate the passage in west to east.
I have reported on that in these Forums before... That record of 86 days still stands as the quickest transit of the NW passage from port to port going either direction by any type of surface vessel.
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.
.
At least that is what they were saying in 1946. ;)
Where was Al Gore when they needed him? :think: ... oh yeah... he wasn't yet even a twinkle in his Daddy's eye. :D
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/09/was-2007-arctic-ice-really-a-historic-minimum/
I also direct you to the comment a bit down that page:
Don Libbey (19:48:51) :
In 1944, the Canadian RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) vessel St. Roch returned to Vancouver by way of Lancaster Sound and the Northwest Passage route in just 86 days. Previously, from 1940 to1942, it had traveled the passage from west to east via a more southerly route leaving Vancouver in June 1940 and, after spending 2 winters frozen in the Arctic ice, arrived in Halifax 11 October, 1942.
St Roch was only the second vessel, after Amundsen (1903 - 1906), to traverse the passage and the first to navigate the passage in west to east.
I have reported on that in these Forums before... That record of 86 days still stands as the quickest transit of the NW passage from port to port going either direction by any type of surface vessel.