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Passenger Ships Stuck in Ice Off Sweden
CNN ^ | March 4, 2010 | Per Nyberg and Claudia Rebaza

Posted on 03/04/2010 1:25:08 PM PST by naturalized

Thirty to 40 ships -- including several passenger ships -- were stuck Thursday in ice off the coast of Sweden, said a spokesman for the Maritime Search and Rescue Center in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The area of the Baltic Sea worst hit by the ice were the waters bounded by mainland Sweden, the Stockholm archipelago and the Finnish island of Aland, said Tommy Gardebring, press officer with the Swedish Maritime Administration.

Several passenger vessels from Viking Line were stuck, he said. One of them had been freed.

"It has been a lot colder than normal in the southern parts of the Baltic sea, but in the north all is normal with normal levels of ice," Gardebring said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalcooling; globalwarming; hoax; ice; lolgore; polarbears; ships; sweden
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To: naturalized
Will the Goracle please pick up the courtesy phone...
21 posted on 03/04/2010 1:38:32 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: KarlInOhio

Polar bear surf ‘n turf: seal and cruse ship passenger.


22 posted on 03/04/2010 1:40:34 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: KarlInOhio

You get an LOL a tee hee hee and a giggle for that one! Thanks - I needed that! ;-)


23 posted on 03/04/2010 1:42:51 PM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Joe 6-pack

There are daily, overnight ferries between Turku and Helsinki in Finland and Stockholm, Sweden. I’ve take them many times since 1973. They carry vehicles as well as passengers. The ships are replaced every few years and the replacement is always larger. Silja Lines and Viking are the 2 companies and their ships travel together.


24 posted on 03/04/2010 1:48:46 PM PST by alpo
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To: cripplecreek

According to Al, all this ice is due to moisture, which is a sign of global warming.


25 posted on 03/04/2010 1:51:54 PM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: naturalized

“Passenger Ships Stuck in Ice Off Sweden”

Clearly global warming. I mean, who has ever heard of ice in Sweden?

(sarcasm)


26 posted on 03/04/2010 1:53:33 PM PST by Grunthor (Does The Name "Obama" Appear In any Hawaii Birth Database?)
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To: Joe 6-pack

That would be fun to know ;-)


27 posted on 03/04/2010 1:57:14 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (My respect and admiration for Cmdr. McCain are inversely proportion to my opinion of Sen. McCain.)
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To: Pollster1

See, it all depends upon what your definition of “is” is.


28 posted on 03/04/2010 1:57:33 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: Joe 6-pack
I wonder how many of these are eco-tourists who went to observe the melting polar caps for themselves.

That would be so sweet...

29 posted on 03/04/2010 1:59:14 PM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: cripplecreek

Teehee


30 posted on 03/04/2010 2:01:39 PM PST by GnuHere
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To: naturalized

my better half is Swedish...she is laughing at the insanity of the following...

the biggest ice breaker (odin) in Sweden is where...breaking ice in Antarctica..

you gotta love this global warming


31 posted on 03/04/2010 2:04:10 PM PST by Irishguy
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To: naturalized

They should just wait a while. Algore says that global warming is coming.


32 posted on 03/04/2010 2:10:53 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

In the Northern Hemisphere, we call that “Summer”.


33 posted on 03/04/2010 2:26:52 PM PST by BlueDragon (there is no such thing as a "true" compass, all are subject to both variation & deviation)
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To: naturalized

How can this be? All the ice has melted. The ship musta hit a struggling, non-swimming, polar bear.


34 posted on 03/04/2010 2:27:20 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: cripplecreek

post of the day!


35 posted on 03/04/2010 2:34:06 PM PST by BlueDragon (there is no such thing as a "true" compass, all are subject to both variation & deviation)
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To: cripplecreek

36 posted on 03/04/2010 2:36:33 PM PST by naturalized
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To: naturalized
Let's try that again:


37 posted on 03/04/2010 2:42:22 PM PST by naturalized
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To: naturalized

Anyone have any idea why my Gary Larson Polar Bear comic got pulled? Is there a ban on Gary Larson? I’ve posted that same cartoon a few times.


38 posted on 03/04/2010 2:45:43 PM PST by Defiant (To bring down a great nation, work to take away everything that has made it great.)
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To: naturalized

I'm not sure how that much ice sneaks up on you.

39 posted on 03/04/2010 2:57:10 PM PST by Onelifetogive (Flame away...)
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To: rbg81

So a moist, cold world is warmer, Mr. Gore?

My brain hurts!


40 posted on 03/04/2010 4:12:42 PM PST by DesertConservative
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