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Ships taking fuel to Nome making 5 mph in thick ice {Russian Tanker, US Icebreaker}
Anchorage Daily News ^
| January 8th, 2012 11:03 PM
| Associated Press
Posted on 01/09/2012 5:35:38 AM PST by thackney
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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...
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posted on
01/09/2012 5:45:49 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Comments now include 25% MORE sarcasm for no additional charge...)
To: bray
Sara’s Fault.....can you imagine the News Merde would be doing to her if she was still Governor?
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posted on
01/09/2012 5:46:11 AM PST
by
BilLies
( (ABCBSNBCNN, NYTimes, WaPOSt , etc., hates your Traditional American guts!))
To: thackney
If Obama gets a second term we'll be begging for emergency food relief from Somolia by 2016.
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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: WayneS
Actually, Early Sea Ice is affecting the Snow Crab harvest in the Berring Sea.
Sea ice hastens Bering Sea snow crab fishery
http://www.adn.com/2012/01/07/2251806/sea-ice-hastens-bering-sea-snow.html#storylink=cpy
The Bering Sea snow crab fishery is picking up earlier than usual as the fleet scrambles to pull up the catch before encroaching sea ice shuts them down. About 25 boats are out so far, soon to be joined by 60 or so more, with a weather forecast calling for frigid weather and high winds.
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posted on
01/09/2012 5:59:37 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: thackney
Why are they frigging around with ships when this is obviously a job for the ICE ROAD TRUCKERS ®
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posted on
01/09/2012 6:21:34 AM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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: ROCKLOBSTER
No roads connect Nome to the main supply highways.
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posted on
01/09/2012 6:42:06 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Citizen Tom Paine
One year old sea ice is about three feet thick. Nome is far enough south to be ice free much of the year.
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posted on
01/09/2012 6:44:39 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: thackney
This has to be a hoax. Everyone knows there is no ice in the north anymore, and the polar bears are drowning.
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posted on
01/09/2012 6:57:08 AM PST
by
lurk
To: lurk
Yeah, last month this is what we were told is going on up there.
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posted on
01/09/2012 7:00:52 AM PST
by
skimbell
To: thackney
Are you telling me there is no shoreline or approach, where the trucks could get out on the ice?
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posted on
01/09/2012 7:04:30 AM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
To: thackney
Ahh yes,
Hardwater Sailors, warms my heart.
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posted on
01/09/2012 7:16:01 AM PST
by
Coastie
(I was a Cheef Corpse man)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
01/09/2012 7:41:29 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: ROCKLOBSTER
Yes. This is too far south to have sufficient ice to haul heavy loads this early in the season.
Even if you had shoreline at Nome with sufficient ice, where would you haul it from? It comes from the south and is normally barged in but early sea ice this year (combined with late orders trying to take advantage of falling prices earlier) got them too late for the barge.
There are no Alaska roads heading to the west coast from from the Anchorage - Fairbanks highways.
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posted on
01/09/2012 7:47:24 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Coastie
‘the U.S. Coast Guard’s only icebreaker.’
Why am I not surprised.
TWB
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posted on
01/09/2012 8:11:46 AM PST
by
TWhiteBear
(Jobs, Peace, Food, Security .... Down with Obama(Peacefully))
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