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From: James N Wilson
Date: 2011 Feb 7, 20:31 -0800
From: James N Wilson
Date: 2011 Feb 7, 20:31 -0800
Lu:
But they do exist. On our eclipse trip in Antarctica on the Kaptain
Klebnikov, we plowed through them at ten knots. It was summer there, and so
the icebreaker just pushed all that ice away, splitting it into large floes. It
did take a lot of horsepower.
About finding a horizon there, I have my doubts. There were so many
icebergs, and the visibility wasn't the best. It probably didn't matter since we
saw very few celestial objects. The sun on eclipse day was visible, thank
heavens!
Jim Wilson
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:49:48 -0800 (PST) Lu Abel <luabel@ymail.com> writes:
True -- and 10' thick sheets of ice are pretty rare (at least in salt water in non-polar regions)Lu
