And the coast guard is busy mapping the waters north of Alaska where ships are going due to the melting ice.
Originally Posted by i'va biggen
No they aren't tard. Lets put my 2 buddies on ice breakers up north, to your sources. Actually that's not really fair, lemme help you. You'll never best me on this particular category. The ice breakers have been breaking ice through shipping channels and making new channels since the beginning of the ice breaker in 1884/85. It's their whole job. Now... If you are trying to say there's been a whole lot of ice melt and the coast guard is out trying to find the safe channels, lemme just throw it out there, this is no longer a big deal for any nautical charting BECAUSE its all seen from satellite now. It only takes about 10 min to rechart an entire SAR scope. Basically you can map a nautical chart of the artic in about 30 min, including printing.
See and here I was about to say, "Hey wow, bigger has held in there for three pages arguing underwater bird calls and doing a fantastic job." Now I can't compliment you.