Arctic 2002: aboard the laurier

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Canada Picture by Trish
Travel story: Arctic 2002: aboard the laurier

I wrote this last night after seeing the first real pack ice of my trip:
I had gone to sleep in the afternoon to rest before working stations at two am and when I lay down, open waters surrounded the ship. A few hours later the ship's grinding halting progress woke me. Instead of lying flat as she steamed, she pitched up and then crashed downwards in almost slow motion, far slower than any ocean swell I'd experienced.



I rose and went to my porthole.... More