“It’s like you’re riding on top of a Slurpee.”
6 Sep 13 – “An American adventurer is promising to try again after his plan to cross the fabled Northwest Passage on a Jet Ski went the way of so many Arctic dreams — cold, wet and stuck in the ice,” says this article by Bob Weber
“Humbled, 110 per cent,” said Steve Moll on Friday from his warm and dry room in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, after being plucked out of the freezing waters of the Franklin Strait by a coast guard icebreaker.
Moll is the leader of a seven-man team attempting to circumnavigate the globe on personal watercraft.
“We got about 15 miles short of Bellot and the ocean was literally freezing beneath us. The ocean starts forming little pancakes about the size of a quarter and there’s millions of them underneath you. It’s like you’re riding on top of a Slurpee.”
Ice clogged their engines and covered their drysuit-clad bodies.
“We wake up in the morning and we’re locked in the ice. The ice has moved in, it’s completely around all the Jet Skis and the boat.”
See entire well-written article:
http://home.mytelus.com/p/news/source/news_cp/category/national/article/24842503
Thanks to Cam McNaughton for this link