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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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Originally Posted by yellowperil
The coast guard ice breaker (see picture) smashed it all up!
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Ah, cool, and that explains the heavily angled nose on it right above the water line, right? The ship climbs up on top of the ice and then cuts down through it.
On a vaguely related note, I thought these articles about a ship freezing into the arctic ice for a year to study flow patterns were interesting.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191004-largest-arctic-expedition-in-history-going-the-north-pole
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191129-what-will-an-ice-free-arctic-look-like
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'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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