After awaking to find their vessel frozen in ice the team are steaming around looking for a path that's navigable by kayak. No paddling today.(link fixed)Previous.
h/t CJ
Posted by Kate at September 4, 2008 11:39 AMI think you made a mistake on the first link.
Posted by: Alex at September 4, 2008 12:14 PM
Not as big a mistake as bringing a kayak to a snowmobile race!
Or ice fishing derby!
Posted by: theredsuit at September 4, 2008 12:19 PMWhat a maroon. The only good thing about this exercise in stupidity is that Canada or the King of Hans Island won't have to rescue their sorry (& frozen)asses.
Only thing I can see to this story to make it better is to have a nuc sub or two surface from beneath his kayak.
I don't know about the progress of the kayak, but this was another exceptional year in terms of ice free area in the Arctic. Here is the latest ice extent area and as you can see it is quite close to last year's (which as we know was an exceptional year in terms of ice loss).
So, in spite of the kayaks, the arctic has not seen the recovery that was being predicted by many earlier this year.
Regards,
John
satellite arctic ice
Check out the "loss" here.
http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=09&fd=03&fy=2008&sm=09&sd=03&sy=2007
And i heard that GREENPEACE had to call off one of their trips north becuase of too much ice and tahst becuase AL GORE,DAVID SUZUKI,JAMES LOVELOCK and other eco-wackos were not there to produce HOT AIR
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 4, 2008 2:39 PMLink from the weather review of November 1922 when they were able to sail ice-free to 81 degrees 29 min N.
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-11-0589a.pdf
Spurwing! Welcome back.
Posted by: Kate at September 4, 2008 7:24 PMDrD: Actually, you did not understand the report you quote from. The publication date of the MWR was November 1922, but the date that they were able to sail ice-free to 81N is obviously before that. In fact they state that they expedition started in August and the date the report was filled was October 10, so it was sometime between those dates when they reached 81N.
There are a number of places where you can currently reach 81N ice free and I expect that there will continue to be for the next month.
Regards,
John
