Posted on 08/20/2016 10:40:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Crystal Cruises has spent three years planning the Serenitys voyage to prevent Titanic-like scenarios (and is requiring $50,000 in evacuation insurance for passengers). The Canadian and American coast guards and federal bodies including Transport Canada are also overseeing the trip.
Such preparation is unprecedented, Mr. Hutchinson said. Weve seen a level of planning that suggests to us the company is taking seriously the conditions theyre going to face.
The British RRS Ernest Shackleton icebreaker is escorting the ship, along with two helicopters to assess ice conditions. The Serenity is outfitted with a forward-looking sonar, searchlights and a navigation system that displays near real-time satellite ice imagery.
Two veteran Canadian ice pilots will also accompany the captain and his team, who have been trained to navigate far-northern regions. Under regulations, the Serenity is required to debrief daily with the Canadian Coast Guard.
The Serenitys sprawling month-long itinerary includes three Canadian stops: Ulukhaktok, a community of 400 mostly Inuit people in Northwest Territories, as well as Cambridge Bay and Pond Inlet in Nunavut. Vicki Aitaok, cruise-ship co-ordinator for Cambridge Bay, will see the population of her 1,600-person hamlet double when the Serenity docks on Aug. 29.
This one is huge, said Ms. Aitaok, who oversees five cruise-ship visits over a tight two-week window in late August. The hamlet typically welcomes 100 passengers from small cruises for an afternoon visit. But the Serenitys stop will require a 13-hour block scheduled to military precision, with 100 passengers passing through each half hour.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
bump, so that I can watch the bridge cam later when they’re stuck in the ice.
Shackleton and Scott got stuck the Discovery in the ice in the Antarctic in the summer of 1903 through their own stupidity...
had to be rescued...
not exactly leadership material...
Do you have a link to track their position (assuming their AIS is working)?
Important safety point!
Yes, someone has a blog going...
Update - two simpler links.
To the cruise ship Serenity -
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=C6SY3
And to the Ernest Shackleton, the supply ship/icebreaker mentioned in the article which seems to be heading from the East to meet the Serenity.
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=ZDLS1
Of course not,...Not after global warming...and the blood thirsty SUVs ravaged their breeding grounds.../s
It is an advertisement disguised as an article, Canadian and Russian specially built ships have been selling cruises through the Arctic ocean for years. It is an amazing experience but very expensive.
That is a photo of the first “ship of fools”. The passengers are tramping down snow above the sea ice that has trapped them in the antarctic sea ice. the packed snow will be used for a helicopter landing pad to carry the tourists/passengers/propagandists out, rather than ferry food and supplies to the real scientists in the antarctic camps who need it.
Bloody foolish waste of time, fuel, and effort - But only propaganda for the CAGW crowd who need to see “no sea ice due to global warming”
How many penguins had to die for that ship to crash into the ice?
Clueless libs booking passage to Antartica to see "proof" of global warming - only to get stuck in ice. I believe even Russian icebreakers had to get involved to save their sorry asses.
Truly a "ship of fools."
Poorly written articles.
Poor grammar and spelling by posters on most websites, including F.R.
Foreigners given free reign in our nation.
Everything we buy is a cheap piece of junk.
We’re on the HIGHWAY TO HELL.
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