by Ken Jorgustin, Modern Survival Blog:

From data provided by Environment Canada – the Canadian Ice Services, and from real world conditions on the ground (on the ice), the Canadian Coast Guard is pleading with merchant ships to plan their voyages well in advance this year as their icebreaker fleet is confronting the worst ice conditions they’ve seen on the Atlantic Ocean in decades.

Global warming? Not here…

“We probably haven’t seen a winter this bad as far as ice for the past 25 years,” said Mike Voight, the Atlantic region’s director of programs, referring to both the amount and thickness of the ice.

Reported in CBCnews |Nova Scotia, Voight said “We’ve got a pretty bad or challenging ice year.” “Plan your voyage and we’ll all get through this.”

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