Cut through the icy waters to Heard and McDonald Islands , terra incognita.

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They speed into the breathtaking fjords of British Columbia, where the icy waters are more than a mile deep.

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This week it seemed poised to allow Shell to start prospecting in the icy waters off the north coast of Alaska.

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We cooled off with a quick dip in the rock pool's icy waters and the blistering afternoon sun was quick to warm our shivering bodies when we emerged.

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Woodman tested the first GoPro prototypes near these same icy waters.

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He started his work a decade ago, inspired by news stories of fishermen and skiers who survived after falling into icy waters or under snow for hours.

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The whales, including mothers and their newborns, can also be spotted as they make the long trip back to the icy waters of the Southern Ocean between September and November.

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That said, for five years now I have kicked off the New Year by taking a plunge in the icy waters of New York's Coney Island, a tradition I was introduced to while living in Dublin, where I joined hundreds of locals who make an annual Christmas leap from a rock at Sandycove and baptize themselves in the freezing Irish Sea.

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After warming up in a Finnish sauna -- a national tradition -- guests don socks for a 50m, often naked run through the snow to a manmade hole in the ice, where they can safely use a step ladder to dip in the icy lake waters below.

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Houston contractor Parker Drilling (nyse: PKD - news - people ) has had its share of woes since building Sunkar, a barge designed to drill in the icy, shallow waters of the Caspian.

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