Tag: Arctic Sea Ice

Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 284 – 2018

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UPDATE: A comment noted that the ice extent in the arctic is not increasing the way it should be this time of year.

DMI’s webpage shows a bit of a “warm” spell in the arctic.

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The thickness and concentration of ice is worse than we have ever seen

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Thick sea ice is hampering shipping in the Canadian Arctic.

A cargo ship made it to Resolute Bay, Nunavut this weekend after being anchored for four days due to thick sea ice.

The Rosaire A. Desgagnés dropped its anchor on Saturday about 18 kilometres from the Nunavut hamlet. It sat there until Wednesday when it was unloaded.

The success was likely welcome news for Waguih Rayes, general manager of Desgagnés Transarctik Inc., which oversees several Arctic ships as the managing partner for Nunavut Sealink and Supply Inc.

An unusual amount of ice and a swamped coast guard made Arctic shipping more difficult than usual this year, according to Rayes. He told CBC that he was recently on a morning phone briefing with Canadian Coast Guard representatives, and that the agency said it is “busy everywhere… [and] they don’t have enough boats to provide the level of service required.”