Chapter 5.

From: Coast Guard Magazine | Date: March 1, 2007 | Copyright information 
 
"He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea." 
--Thomas Fuller

For the next week, Spar began her oceanographic work of recording currents and seawater temperatures and depths. Meanwhile, Storis and Bramble lay in thickening ice at 70[degrees]04'N, just off Mackenzie Bay, Canada. Often, the two cutters drifted in ice-free lakes, or polynias, dodging small chunks of floating ice known as growlers and small icebergs called bergy-bits, while sur...

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