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There?s a joke aboard ship that John Kemp will miss no opportunity to get into a ship?s crane-operated metal basket. Oden?s chief officer, Ola Andersson, lowered the basket toward the ice, reaching slightly underneath the ship and along its hull. For several tense minutes, neither Kemp nor anyone else saw Puma, and we wondered if it had disappeared under the ice or under the ship. Then Japan?s National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology geochemist Ko-ichi Nakamura saw Puma?s nose peeking out from under an ice floe. Andersson maneuvered Kemp toward it. With a long metal pole, Kemp pushed aside ice floes to free Puma. Nearly 22 hours after he had let Puma loose, Kemp grabbed hold of it again and brought it back on board.
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Posted: April 16, 2008
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