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Harsh_Johari
Ice Navigation

My first encounter with ice navigation was in the winter of 1998.

My ship was sailing around the coast of Newfoundland, heading towards Montreal, Canada.

During winters, the warm ocean water freezes into solid ice in colder regions, sometimes as thick as 1-2 meters!!

This thick ice creates resistance and pressure against the ship’s movement and ships have to cut through this solid ice and force their way to move ahead.

Outside air temperature drops below zero degrees, and if there is wind blowing, it creates something called wind chill (I recollect the lowest temperature I have experienced was around -40 deg C including wind chill!!)

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