Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard The Russian-flagged tanker Renda steams toward Nome, Alaska, through a path in the Bering Sea ice broken up by the Coast Guard Cutter Healy Jan. 6, 2012.
Photo courtesy Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis / U.S. Coast Guard The Coast Guard Cutter Healy escorts the Russian-flagged tanker Renda 250 miles south of Nome Jan. 6, 2012. The vessels are transiting through ice up to five-feet thick in this area.
Photo courtesy Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis / U.S. Coast Guard
Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
1 posted on
01/09/2012 5:35:44 AM PST by
thackney
To: runninglips; cripplecreek; WellyP; Eska
ping for follow-up from previous thread
Ice-breaking Russian ship gets OK to deliver fuel to Nome ( Alaska )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2827938/posts
The US Coast Guard is using the Healy to provide ice breaking for the Russian Tanker.
pictures of both together
2 posted on
01/09/2012 5:41:16 AM PST by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: thackney
What else, but an obvious glow bull warming example.
3 posted on
01/09/2012 5:42:04 AM PST by
wita
To: thackney
But we were told all the arctic ice had melted due to the EPA’s global warming? Maybe we should just fire up some more coal plants?
Pray for America
4 posted on
01/09/2012 5:43:39 AM PST by
bray
(Ride Santorum back to Sanity)
To: thackney
This story cannot be true, and those picture MUST be photo-shopped or otherwise faked.
After all, the Profit Algore and his followers have decreed that the ice near the north pole has melted due to AGW, so it is not possible that a ship can be having that much trouble navigating the waters near/in the arctic circle...
5 posted on
01/09/2012 5:45:49 AM PST by
WayneS
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To: thackney
If Obama gets a second term we'll be begging for emergency food relief from Somolia by 2016.
7 posted on
01/09/2012 5:55:32 AM PST by
KarlInOhio
(Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
To: thackney
Why are they frigging around with ships when this is obviously a job for the ICE ROAD TRUCKERS ®
9 posted on
01/09/2012 6:21:34 AM PST by
ROCKLOBSTER
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To: thackney
To: thackney
Five knots when you are breaking ice is a good speed. Two foot thick sea ice is relatively easy to break. One year old sea ice is about three feet thick.
To: thackney
This has to be a hoax. Everyone knows there is no ice in the north anymore, and the polar bears are drowning.
14 posted on
01/09/2012 6:57:08 AM PST by
lurk
To: thackney
Ahh yes,
Hardwater Sailors, warms my heart.
17 posted on
01/09/2012 7:16:01 AM PST by
Coastie
(I was a Cheef Corpse man)
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18 posted on
01/09/2012 7:41:29 AM PST by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: thackney
the ships are able to travel only five miles an hour through ice up to two feet thick. Through what? That's odd, I could have sworn they were talking about two-feet-thick sea ice. But Al Gore told me that it had all disappeared, so this report must be wrong.
34 posted on
01/09/2012 6:49:51 PM PST by
denydenydeny
(The more a system is all about equality in theory the more it's an aristocracy in practice.)
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