On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 4:35:04 AM UTC-7, Wayne. B wrote:
Previously uncharted reef in Artic Ocean may be to blame.

http://gcaptain.com/shell-icebreaker-msv-fennica-damaged-in-alaska-report/#.VaTydPkuPOo


================================================

We now return you to the Harry Krause political crap programming.

Im not surprised it's damaged. but I am surprised how they hold up anyhow.. That's gotta be a tough deal. climbing on top of the ices and shattering it as it goes.

What scares me is the untold number of nuclear submarines roaming around up there. I hope they have better charts.

On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 05:32:52 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 4:35:04 AM UTC-7, Wayne. B wrote:
Previously uncharted reef in Artic Ocean may be to blame.

http://gcaptain.com/shell-icebreaker-msv-fennica-damaged-in-alaska-report/#.VaTydPkuPOo


================================================

We now return you to the Harry Krause political crap programming.

Im not surprised it's damaged. but I am surprised how they hold up anyhow.. That's gotta be a tough deal. climbing on top of the ices and shattering it as it goes.

===

Bashing ice is what they're built for. It appears that this one may
have found a rock from the sound of it. Fortunately the gash was in a
ballast tank and not the actual bottom of the boat. That may be a
design feature but I don't really know.

Yes they're built to take it. But eventually they might hit something and that's true. Or over time it could have developed a stress fatigue in the hull. Beats me Wayne, but yes the are built to take a pounding, but eventually..,