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The crew of the Royal Navy's Portsmouth-based ice patrol vessel has rescued a cruise ship threatened by Antarctic ice.
BBC: HMS Protector approaches MS Fram
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The horseshoe inlet at Deception Island, a live volcano, is half-frozen, and the ship breaks through ice, splitting open a lane of water, an incredibly satisfying feeling.
FORBES: Go with the Floe
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Smith, to maintain a relatively high speed even though the ship had been receiving ice warnings.
NEWYORKER: Unsinkable
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There's the tale of the Chelyushkin, a ship crushed in the polar ice.
BBC: Moscow Diary: The icy frontier
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Working at a speed of two knots, HMS Protector broke the four-metre thick ice, which had trapped the cruise ship's bow, in two hours.
BBC: HMS Protector approaches MS Fram
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I'm writing this blog from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.
CNN: The story
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According to the listed specs, it features a 4.5-inch HD Colorboost (720 x 1, 280) display, 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, and will ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and (predictably) looks very much like the Droid RAZR.
ENGADGET: Motorola Atrix HD revealed with 4.5-inch Colorboost HD display, ICS and Droid RAZR looks
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Submarine crews practice surfacing the 8, 000-ton submarines, directly through thick ice or in nearby open waters, and learn to avoid hitting another ship.
FORBES: U.S. Navy Scrambles for Piece of Arctic Pie
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Beijing has long been anticipating the ice chunks and subtly adjusting the rudder around inflation without steering the economic ship too far off course.
FORBES: Chinese Dragon Still Snorting Loudly
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The event also serves as a fun ice breaker for teens that may not know anyone else their age on the ship.
BBC: Keeping Disney magic afloat
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It was built in 1900 to provide crushed ice for the town's trawlers, to keep fish fresh in the ship's hold.
BBC: Grimsby Ice Factory renovation plans unveiled
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The drifting chunk of ice, more than 32 miles long by 12 miles wide, forced the drill ship Noble Discoverer to move off the planned well as a precaution, company spokesman Curtis Smith said.
CNN: Ice floe halts Shell's new Arctic well