(PDF Download) Wind, Fire, and Ice: The Perils of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in Antarctica By Robert M Bunes
Wind, Fire, and Ice: The Perils of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in Antarctica
Between 1955 and 1987, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Glacier was the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the free world. Consequently, it was often given the most difficult and dangerous Antarctic missions. This is the dramatic first-person account of its most legendary voyage. In 1970, the author was the Chief Medical Officer on the Glacier when it became trapped deep in the Weddell Sea, pressured by 100 miles of wind-blown icepack. Glacier was beset within seventy miles of where Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was imprisoned in 1915. His stout wooden ship succumbed to the crushing pressure of the infamous Weddell Sea pack ice and sank, leading to an unbelievable two-year saga of hardship, heroism and survival. The sailors aboard the Glacier feared they would suffer Shackleton's fate, or one even worse. Freakishly good luck eventually saved the Glacier from destruction in the crushing ice pack, only to experience a three-hour fire that nearly killed one of
Product details: Wind, Fire, and Ice: The Perils of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in Antarctica
Author : Robert M Bunes
Pages : 288 pages
Publisher : Lyons Press
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ISBN-10 : 1493060341
ISBN-13 : 9781493060344
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