Sea Ice School

OK I finally have time and the internet connection has finally been reconnected so I can do some more blogging.










This was the day at Sea Ice School. At this school they taught us how to read the cracks in the ice so we would be able to drive our trucks over the cracks without falling into the ocean. Sounds really scary but in actually was not bad.





Our day stared quit easily with a quick stop to lay around on the ice. Once you get out of town, the ice becomes an amazing color of blue. Once it is chipped off it becomes the clear color you are use to ice being.








The instructor told us that sea ice is not as salty as ocean water so I had to try it for myself. He was right, it there was no salty taste at all.









We loaded up in the haggland and traveled about 1.5 hour outside town which only put us 10-12 miles away.





Along the way we stopped to take pictures of the seals. This is the time that they are pupping so there are up to 60 at a time on the snow.







This is the picture I like to call the seal smiling. I think it was actually telling us to get out of it's space but....







We took measurements of the ice, drilled holes until we hit water and ran some calculations to see if the haggland could cross over the crack. Since the crack was too big, we headed back. This was an 8 hour day away from town. The next part of the training was happy camper school and that is under another blog.