| At the Mercy of the Ice |
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With Oden?s master, Mattias Peterson, directing operations, and its second officer, Thomas Stromsnas, working the ship?s controls, the icebreaker mashed broken chunks into smaller pieces. In this fish-eye lens view, you can see how the ship circled the pieces, herding them into the center. The ship then tried to push the pieces to one side, to clear a patch of open water for Puma. But the ice pack was unforgiving today. The ice moved backed quickly, filling the hole again, and swarming the ship?s hull.
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Posted: April 16, 2008
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