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This would be news if the headline read "Icebreaker stuck in Ice since Christmas Eve"

• dogma1138 9y ago
  Ice breakers often get stuck in ice more so than any other ship they can clear only very thin surface ice basically they are used to clear the ice which is too thin for supply ships to offload onto so they clear a path towards the thicker ice shelf or land.
  • vidanay 9y ago
    If by "very thin" you mean up to 2.5 meters thick, then yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker
    • dogma1138 9y ago
      That’s thin, ice shelfs are 100m to over 1KM in thickness, sea ice can be over 3m thick, or at less used to be more than 3.5m thick on average these days it’s below 1.5m. Ice breakers used to be limited to periods where the sea ice would be thin enough to break these days they pretty much go all year around but they still break only relatively thin sea ice and can’t do shit to an ice shelf.
  • cr1895 9y ago
    You didn’t quantify “very thin” but certain ice-class vessels are designed to encounter meters-thick ice. See pg. 20, table A1: https://rules.dnvgl.com/docs/pdf/DNV/rulesship/2005-07/ts501.pdf https://rules.dnvgl.com/docs/pdf/DNV/rulesship/2005-07/ts501...