Northwest Passage in - no easy transit. About a week ago, the Canadian Coast Guard sent out a message warning hopeful adventurers that ice in the NWP is heavier than normal and that, should a vessel get into trouble, the CCG might not be able to rescue them. They should be prepared to spend a winter aboard. That means they would have had to have packed enough food for the entire crew for a long winter in terrible conditions. At the same time, a cruise ship ran into trouble in the NWP.
People now specialize in cruise ships adventures in the arctic and antarctic waters. One such cruise ship ran aground last week well off the known route they should have been on. All passengers were safely evacuated but now the CCG has to figure out what to do with the ship. Infinity is reportedly now in Cambridge Bay. Thor, a very sturdy German boat, got themselves into some of the densest ice and had been drifting with the pack for several days.
Then seemingly achieving the impossible they showed on approach to Icebreaker Channel and are in Coronation. It looks like the list of successful transits for will be very short. Here is a link. It's not over yet and the danger to those still trapped in the Arctic ice is real.
I'm keeping the faith that all will make it through. Northwest Passage Post a Comment. Wow, what a cool collection! Great ideas for a sailing movie club. When I started to compile this list, I thought I'd come up with maybe ten movies. But as I got deeper into it, not only did I realize there were more than I consciously remembered over time, but also that the independent film production movement and digital technologies are causing an explosion of very interesting new entries.
The work being done by young people is particularly inspiring and impressive and perhaps signifies that sailing isn't dying after all. No, it's actually becoming the saving grace of a generation pressured as none before it. Because it is just too difficult to rate these movies as each one ticks a different box, I've just listed them in chronological order.
