Despite all our advanced shipbuilding and navigation technical school , sailing through Arctic or Antarctic waters can still perfidious — as an Australian fishing boat discovered after it got stuck in in the ice this workweek . Today , the US Coastal Guard ’s icebreaker , Polar Star , came to the delivery .
Polar Star has been around since the seventies , andit is atank . With a two - inch - steel Cordell Hull and incredibly powerful engines , it ’s still doing what it was built to do four decades ago : Cutting through dense deoxyephedrine to do everything from pull through strand vas to delivering supplies to McMurdo Station by clearing a path to the place — as find out in the AP photo above from previous January .
Top : Polar Star in 2009 byVille Miettinen / CC ; Bottom : Late January Lt . j.g . Gina Caylor .
This week , Polar Star was assigned a unlike task : rescue the Antarctic Chieftain meet above , a vessel with a crew of 26 that was stranded in the ice with ill damage propellor . harmonize to theLA Times , Polar Star reach the trapped boat today — and is now tow it out of the ice floes to prophylactic .
Check out a few of the AP ’s photos of the delivery below — this is the maroon boat , shot from the deck of Polar Star .
image : AP Photo / U.S. Coast Guard , Lt . j.g . Gina Caylor .
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