http://gcaptain.com/holy-climate-change-arctic-melt/ Wed, 22 May 2013 22:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://gcaptain.com/holy-climate-change-arctic-melt/#comment-33420 Chris Allport Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:13:57 +0000 http://gcaptain.com/?p=55374#comment-33420 GCaptain readers may do well to consider the comments in Mike Grey's latest article "Cold Comfort" at http://www.claymaittland.com before joining the race to circumnavigate Arctic waters. It includes a precautionary tale which I quote:-
" I just hope that the great hopes for a short cut to the Far East and all the riches of the north are not confounded by the ice closing in again. Because we have been here before. I have before me as I write a picture of the nice new Soviet steamer Chelivskin, which along with a supporting convoy set out from Murmansk in August 1933, lured by the clear water into attempting a voyage to Vladivostok. The ship and most of the accompanying fleet were crushed and abandoned almost within sight of the Bering Strait, occasioning a spectacular rescue mission, which is a good tale in its own right."

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