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Why the new Arctic 'Cold War' is a dangerous myth

The Conversation 13 Dec 2018

What’s changed? The Arctic states guard their land and waterways through aerial, submarine and surface ship patrols, much as they have done for years ... The Norwegian coastguard vessel, KV Nordkapp, responded, resulting in the seizure of Grenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise ship and the arrest of all 35 people on board....

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Visiongain Launches Report Examining the Potential in the $1.35bn Autonomous Commercial Vessels Market

Market Watch 12 Dec 2018

Rolls-Royce announced a partnership between themselves and Google to make ships smarter and self-learning ... ASA • Mitsui OSK Lines • L3 ASV • Yara International ASA • Automated Ships Ltd • Wartsila • ABB Ltd ... ABS Arctic Shipping Forum ASV Global Automated Ships Ltd Clyde & Co....

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Oasis Of The Seas To Make Big Apple Debut For Royal Caribbean's 2020-21 Deployment

Market Watch 12 Dec 2018

12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Caribbean International is charting a new course with its 2020-21 deployment plans, touting a fleet of Royal Amplified ships sailing to exciting destinations ... For a once-in-a-lifetime experience, adventurers can board Brilliance for a 15-night arctic crossing as the ship repositions from Amsterdam to Boston, Mass....

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Canada's deeper dive into the oceans aims to tap industry’s uncharted frontier

Canada Dot Com 12 Dec 2018

The company, formed in 2012, supplies the unmanned, underwater vehicles used to deploy its imaging equipment, and in 2014 was involved in another historical hunt to find two ships, Erebus and Terror, connected to the doomed Franklin Expedition in the Arctic....

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Yamal LNG project reaches full production capacity

Xinhua 11 Dec 2018

The project, a success for all participants, is significant to Russia's energy industry and its global cooperation, Medvedev said, adding that it is also conducive to better international transport infrastructure, including the Arctic shipping route ... CNPC received the first ship ......

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What Is Putin’s Game?

The American Spectator 10 Dec 2018

To ensure that outcome, Putin is spending enormous funds on designing and deploying new classes of ships, submarines, missiles, and aircraft ... Putin has militarized a substantial portion of the Arctic by building several military bases there and building heavy icebreaking ships as quickly as Russian shipyards can....

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Coast Guard Commandant calls for more Arctic ships to protect national security

Public Technologies 07 Dec 2018

If the United States is to protect its national security interests in the Arctic, it needs to fund more ships for the U.S ... Even so, Schultz warned that may still not be enough to prevent the United States falling behind, given contracting rules that would prevent a contract to build a new Arctic ship being built until the third quarter of next year....

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U.S. Coast Guard chief optimistic about icebreaker ship funding

Reuters 07 Dec 2018

The United States may soon get funding for a new heavy icebreaker ship, the head of the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday, as global warming spurs the race to stake out the Arctic, which is rich in oil, gas, and minerals ... ....

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50 states in 42 days: Baby Liberty becomes the youngest to travel the U.S.

Cedar Rapids Gazette 07 Dec 2018

Born on Oct ... And so, the road trip began. Oklahoma. Kansas, Missouri. Iowa ... Nebraska. Wyoming. Colorado ... A couple months earlier, he was on a charter through the Northwest Passage, a historic trade route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic Circle. Ice disrupted the journey and he and his group had to be rescued by an icebreaker ship....

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The 19 Best Horror Movies And Shows Of 2018

Gamespot 07 Dec 2018

This adaptation of Dan Simmons' novel presents a fictionalized account of what happened to a pair of ships, the Terror and the Erebus, that mysteriously disappeared in 1848 while attempting to find a trading route through the Arctic....

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The 19 Best Horror Movies And TV Shows Of 2018

Gamespot 06 Dec 2018

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Sir Edwin Landseer’s winter painting Man Proposes, God Disposes

New Statesman 05 Dec 2018

This huge panorama of Arctic savagery in which two polar bears tear at the remains of a wrecked ship and a dead sailor was a direct reference to the fate of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Franklin, his two ships and 129 men disappeared and what had happened to them obsessed the British public....

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When Infrastructure Costs More Than Money: History’s Deadliest Projects

Web Urbanist 05 Dec 2018

... and shipped back to China at a later date according to Chinese practice ... In 1931, the Soviet Union put 126,000 gulag inmates to work on the White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal, a ship canal running through Russia from the White Sea in the Arctic Ocean to the Baltic Sea in St....