They Turn Ice Into Ice Cubes | Continent 7: Antarctica
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- Sail the frozen waters of Antarctica on the U.S. Coast Guard Polar Star. This teams mission, break up ice sheets for Antarctica's supply ships.
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They Turn Ice Into Ice Cubes | Continent 7: Antarctica
• They Turn Ice Into Ice...
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He literally has the continent on his shoulders relying on them
Cool
Not the most powerful, but very likely the most active. Was stationed on her from 92-95'. Two north trips and two south trips. This certainly brings back memories. Diesel control looks slick!!
Yeah, shame they trash the Sea but good they kept it around for parts. Hope the replacements are as good. My CO on the Mobile Bay went on to run the Sea back in the 90's. Once he retired, he put all that "ice experience" to head the office of ice studies at the UofA. 73's
Hey Imagine if National Geographic made a Draw my life series for famous people (scientists...) That would be amazing :-)
Yup, Been there-Done that !!!!
This song is to the USCGC Polar Sea Judy Collins - "Farewell to Tarwathie"
what a loaded claim: "the most powerful ice breaker in the world"
maybe in the USA
I'm guessing you haven't heard about the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arktika-class_icebreaker
If you look at the spec's, you will see they both have 75k SHP. But Russia just launched a new breaker www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/16/482288188/russia-launches-worlds-biggest-most-powerful-icebreaker so unless the U.S gets off it's but and build a backup to the Star, it's game over in the Artic and other heavy ice areas. But the spec's speak for themselves as to whats currently afloat and in use. The Polar Star is a very capable breaker. I can assure you the numbers provided in the specs are "recommended" ice depth. I have "heard" from crew members that it will break over 25ft of ice. I've seen the 140ft breakers int he great lakes break 4ft of ice when they were designed for 18 inches. Brash ice is a different story. :-)
I think he meant to say the world's most powerful non-nuclear icebreaker. At least it was when I was on it.
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Humans: We try not to disturb the Antarctic environment, also... Let's go to Antarctica, and disturb the environment .
Tied for most powerful but not the biggest by far. Russa has a few nuclear powered icebreakers that are much larger.
Who breaks the ice for supply ships to Thule AFB in Greenland or is every thing flown in?
Aren't these the most powerful ice breakers in the world: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker ?
I believe they are the most powerful non-nuclear vessel in the world.
1:33 Where can I find this sound effect?
Try looking up a jet turbine starting, that’s what you’re hearing at that part
Borealis
Someone, somewhere, must be making a lot of money from this.
They dock in Seattle if I'm not mistaken, I dated a guy that worked on it about 15 years ago..
Too funny. I did a tour on a great lakes ice breaker. Took me 28 years but I did marry the girl I dated when I was stationed onboard (this was back in the EARLY 80's) She was 17, I was just 19. Don't give up. ;-)
Correct, Seattle =)
Was his name Craig Campbell? Lol
what happened to USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)?
had a catastrophic engine/propulsion casualty, too expensive to fix.
Ryan King. Negative, that was the CGC POLAR SEA that had the engine failure not the CGC HEALY.
Bigger breaker but not as powerful or capable.
they have the same diesel engines but none of the three turbines we have on the polar star so they are only a medium ice breaker instead of heavy
The HEALY stays up North, and leaves the heavy ice breaking to the STAR.
Just wait a few years and there will be no ice to brake :'c
Lyons Tea break*
Ops good catch!
Yeah, they've been saying that for 30+ years. Don't count on it.
Ice in the great lakes every year LOL. I did 3 tours in the great lakes over a span of 20 years. Some years, not much. Other years, almost 100% coverage. I don't think we will ever see NO ice in our life times.
The climate is always changing swinging up and down naturally... The Franklin expedition attempting to sail through the Northwest Passage back before 1850 failed miserably, they got caught in ice after it had melted and refroze...Despite having 3 years of stores the waters near King William Island did not melt the next summer. Climate change scientists have been cherry picking dates for their calendars and graphs... Simply put, some winters are colder than others, and some summers are hotter than others. But there is no trend going in either direction...
Operation Deep Freeze 1983-84 U.S.C.G.C Westwind (WAGB-281)
You were onboard when it got it's side tore open? The RMC was my instructor in RM school, and I worked with him when he was a RMCS and Master Chief. I got pictures of when I was on a 140 and we did ice trials with the Mackinaw (old one) and the Westwind, when it was still out of Milwaukee (did this in 80/81 in Lake Mich). BTW, I have my Northwind hat hanging on the wall (given to my by a RM school buddy when we were in RETRA together in GITMO and I did some TAD on her while there) , along with my other unit hats, Sta St. Clair Shores, Mobile Bay, (RM "A" School), Diligence, Gru Ohio River, Commsta Honolulu, D9 commcenter, TRACEN Petaluma (RM/TC "A", "C" school instructor), Resolute.. RETIRED! Was a good 20 years. Best unit, CGC Mobile Bay (new ship, commissioning crew).
@@tc1uscg65 Is that the same RMC who as a RM1 got busted for shacking up with a RM "A" student then shipped off the a ice breaker? Some dudes I wheel with told me that story. Can't be the same guy. Can it?
Congress NEEDS TO PASS THE FUNDS SO OUR CG CAN HAVE AT LEAST 2 MORE Ice Breakers. We ONLY have have this one!
Russians got a couple and the Chinese are building a couple . . . they'll do a deal and rent 'em to ya . . . lol
Listen again. The only LARGE icebreaker of this class. They have at least one in the great lakes.
Getting at least 1 now
The USCG needs to be in the DOD, not Homeland Security.
No. They would loose it's Law enforcement capability. They should maybe have their own department if anything since they are multi service to start with. Go back and look at all the other services combined into one (Coast Guard) and you will understand where I'm coming from.
The Coast Guard becomes part of the Department of the Navy during war time like the Marines. The rest of the time they need to be able to board ships from other countries without it being declared an act of war. When I was in the Coast Guard before 9/11 we were actually part of the Department of Transportation during peace time.