It's a History Channel show on Sub-Zero Tech.
Polar Sea? Really? That's neat... what are they showing?
That was a really good boat. See all that red paint? A few layers down... some of that paint was mine. :-) A while ago.
The Polar class are amazing boats. Flabbergasting amounts of power. 20,000 shaft horsepower to ~three~, count 'em, three shafts, for 60,000 HP to the solid stainless variable pitch props. 16ft diameter water-thrashin' monsters they are.
That ship could ~cruise~ through ten-foot thick ice at an easy six or seven knots. Just drive through it. We didn't have to start the "backing-and-ramming" technique until it got to 20+ feet. When backing and ramming, she broke through ice 50 or 60 feet thick, many times.
Neat stuff. :-)