A few days ago we had this: Another “Ship of Fools” gets grounded in Arctic ice, needs rescue
Jay Ayer writes via WUWT Tips and Notes email:
An 11 meter sailboat was crushed and sunk by arctic ice in the Bellot strait on 8/29/2018. The vessel was attempting the Northwest Passage. The captain may have believed the propaganda about an ice free arctic in 2018.
Details:
‘No injuries to the passengers have been reported,’ says Coast Guard spokesperson
The Canadian Coast Guard rescued two passengers of a sinking sailboat who were trapped on an ice floe in Arctic waters early Wednesday morning. The incident took place in Bellot Strait. (CBC)
Drama in the northwest passage
Sailing yacht gets into drift ice in the middle of the night, gets crushed and sinks within minutes. The crew has to flee to the ice
Pascal Schürmann on 29.08.2018
https://www.yacht.de/aktuell/panorama/drama-in-der-nordwestpassage/a118316.html
What is the fascination with the North West Passage? Its been open before and generally closed of late, it will probably be open again some day. What does navigating it in a particular year prove? Am I missing something?
His track tells a different story. https://share.garmin.com/Anahita
He spent 16 hours covering 80 miles at an average 5 kts, on a bee-line course to Hazard Inlet, Somerset Island, and there he stopped. I think he ran aground – and looking at his route, good speed in narrow channels and close to shore – I’m not surprised.
There must have been at least a million starving polar bears trapped on the same thin strand of ice. How did they ever survive?
If, as looks likely, the NW Passage remains closed this summer, that fact won’t get widely reported.
We’ll know in about two weeks, but right now it appears that Arctic sea ice extent this summer will be the fourth highest of the past twelve years, just pipping out 2017. If so, the higher years were 2009, 2013 and 2014. Each of the lowest three years, 2007, 2012 and 2016, suffered from August cyclones, two in 2016, which pile up and scatter the floes, reducing the area with 15% ice cover.
Unfortunately, Arctic sea ice minimum summer extent has been growing since its record low in 2012.
John Tillman
Actually, it’s a little worse than that – if you accept the premise that lower September sea ice extents are a symptom/cause of the supposed “arctic sea ice death spiral” so often claimed by the climastrologists.
Using Sunday, 2 Sept 2018, NSIDC Arctic Sea Ice Extents data,
Today’s 2018 Arctic sea ice extents are greater than 7 of the past 11 years going back as far as 2007: (2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017) and may exceed 2010’s sea ice extents in a few days.
I was just in the Arctic. I think it is great that the boat tried to make it through the northwest passage. We have wanted to but this trip we just went to Greenland and Svalbard Norway.
In 2002 we went to the Antarctic and were told there is no global warming. But now 16 years later of gathering temperatures and now going to the arctic we see found out ourselves…. there is global warming.
The new surprise finding is that Greenland and [others in] the Arctic love global warming. They are able to grow potatoes and turnips for the first time in almost 1,000 years. They can access oil and gas and are starting to reach granite mines again. Northern Canada had their best wheat crop ever.
We in Miami and San Francisco do not like global warming and are afraid of losing our land, but we are not the only folks on the earth. Some like it hot. So we decided to quit bitching about global warming.
There had been no warming in the Antarctic. The temperature at the South Pole hasn’t changed in all the decades of records there. The massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet, repository of most of the fresh water on Earth, is growing. What melting is occurring on the small West Antarctic Ice Sheet is due to subglacial volcanism, not “global warming”.
To the extent that Earth has warmed since c. AD 1850, it’s natural, not primarily caused by man-made CO2. And, as you note, warming is a good thing. So is enjoying more plant food in the air.
An 11 meter sailboat was crushed and sunk by arctic ice in the Bellot strait on 8/29/2018.
“Darwin’s theory should have been allowed to take its course.”:
But Darwin’s theory is allowed – the guys will buy a new vessel, maybe a bigger one.
Say no more….. if you believe the propaganda!
Just red the German text. The Yacht was prepared for sailing through ice.
The Canadian Coast Guard had warned this yacht and others yachts as well that the Passage will probably not open this year. So they should retreat to a save space and walt.
They din’t follow the advice and relied on a report of another skipper who could cross the Passage last year.