‘That’s raw power.’ Watch an ice breaker clear a path for a cargo ship in the high Arctic

The icy Arctic waters can be treacherous for cargo ships, where hitting ice can cause major damage. But Canada’s Coast Guard has a ship that can lead the way for a safe delivery.
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[@johnslusarenko3309]

I did a lot of welding on that that puppy (1975 - 1977)

[@totitosrt]

Must have been a badass experience🤙🏻

[@johnslusarenko3309]

We built 2 of these side by side. The other was the former Franklin, now know as the Amundsen.

[@aniekanabasi]

Nothing better than seeing your handwork excel

[@idiotidiot5821]

How surreal is it seeing this much later and in good use?

[@stevenjackson2799]

I smoked a lot of crack on there

[@One_KHRN]

Sea Shepherds needed this.

[@Dex01-Z_WingZero]

Stop breaking the ice sheets! The polar bears wont have any where to live!

[@CommanderJaneShepard2154]

I didnt think single digit IQ was possible

[@Dex01-Z_WingZero]

@@CommanderJaneShepard2154 lol you thought i was for real.... I'm only trolling the Communist Broadcasting Channel

[@louismiller7]

I was a ship fitter back in the 70s and helped build the Polar Star and the Polar Sea .🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Andy-1234]

That must have been great being involved with those projects.

[@poly_hexamethyl]

0:48 I like how the freighter takes those two tugs as deck cargo like they were little toy boats.

[@neonmaple5259]

Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker: "Designed to break through the thickest ice patches in the most remote parts of the globe" Russian Nuclear Icebreaker: Ice? What's Dat?

[@femanvate]

Canadians: polite to everything except ice

[@bozanimal5576]

Of course Canada breaks the ice with a spoon.

[@abrekansar]

This what makes me to be proud of Canada , not Drama Teacher and his Dougy

[@abrekansar]

@Mark Rigsby they only can kiss my ars 😉 they not getting my Ar 😎

[@WuHendrix]

error 404. english not found

[@WuHendrix]

@Mark Rigsby error 404 english not found

[@abrekansar]

@@WuHendrix we understand each other , we don’t need your 5 cent

[@WuHendrix]

@@abrekansar true, you need an english class 😂

[@michaelanderson7715]

0:50 "Arctic icebreakers are designed to break through the thickest ice patches" - no, they are not

[@dalentoews3418]

Just go charging through the Ross ice shelf.

[@TheOwenMajor]

And ours even less. Amongst the artic nations, we have the worst icebreaking fleet.

[@johnnya9001]

Nice vid but all that verbiage was blocking the view.

[@dimenchea]

That's some raw power there buddy

[@jeffpetrie7744]

What does it cost for a merchant to have a Canadian icebreaker create a path through the ice?

[@hazelpearson7807]

Merchant? What do you mean?

[@jeffpetrie7744]

@@hazelpearson7807 A merchant like a commercial shipping company. Do they pay the Canadian Coast Guard to create a path? If so, what does it cost?

[@elliottmanning]

Spent the Winter in the Great Lakes on the USCG Ice Breaker South Wind...

[@normansilver905]

I have noting but respect and admiration for the Canadian Coast Guard. I have family in Stewarts Point and also Langley who witness many of the Coast Guard's activities.

[@JohnWick-stardawg]

Get the app called flight radar 24. You can track the coast guard on their missions. It's actually cool

[@robwastman4993]

I served on the USCG Northwind in the early 70s in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Wonderful experience for a young man.

[@poksnee]

The best ice breakers in the world are...Russian.

[@friendlyzombie1460]

We watch one every year clearing ice from the bay behind my house.

[@aircastles1013]

Lucky!

[@friendlyzombie1460]

@@aircastles1013 The whole town of 200 comes out to watch!

[@conorsleftshoulder]

That's awesome

[@friendlyzombie1460]

@@conorsleftshoulder It's pretty cool. The whole town comes out.

[@conorsleftshoulder]

@@friendlyzombie1460 How many people can say that they watch ice breaker behind their house. You are really lucky 😁

[@joelmartin2549]

Who pays for the breaker?

[@phi9249]

I thought it was icefree

[@dirkbogarde7796]

racist.

[@blackflagsfromkhorasan6687]

This is not documentary film, this is hollywood movie with actor's

[@hazelpearson7807]

Idiot, nor actors they were the ships crew, do some research

[@blackflagsfromkhorasan6687]

@@hazelpearson7807 sorry,you are very smart. Thanks a lot

[@crush42mash6]

God bless the Coast Guard, lots of wonderful Canadians coast to coast on that ship! Thank you for your service guys and girls, you guys rock

[@bobthompson4918]

Now...just try and imagine one of the new liberal snowflake electric solar powered ice breakers doing this !😏

[@brianisme6498]

Since when did boats have political opinions

[@bobthompson4918]

@@brianisme6498 kind of missing the point there fella 🙄

[@Ericlee-ne7du]

Wow! a CBC video without the comments turned off?

[@sudopenguin]

Looks like taxpayers are doing your job for you. If you can’t run your routes on your own, maybe the coast guard should be cashing your paychecks for you.

[@NoLeadsEnt]

with global warming arriving in 2012 i dont think the *summer* months will need this next year..in 2022 lol

[@mthompson5048]

Plus it was only 5 billion over budget that's a success for the Canadian Government.

[@mrt9781]

I’m surprised the environmentalist aren’t complaining about how the ice feels about being broken into smaller pieces . Where’s Greta to scold them ?

[@JohnJ469]

Taking Greta's name in vain? How Dare You!

[@graniteslinger]

silly leafs, icebreakers should be nuclear powered like in mother rossiya

[@brick4690]

this why i dont believe global warming, we bring ice with ships lol

[@patallen5095]

Great job! Time to re-capitalize our ice breaking fleet!

[@fredr6381]

Wait.... I just had someone screaming at me the ice is melting.

[@MrMonkey9911]

Lemme get some of this global warming out of your way.

[@hazelpearson7807]

Idiot

[@jrgreatwhite]

That's sad this is not raw power not compared to the Russian Ice Breakers, Canada has fallen so far.

[@goatsinker347]

Let's compare this to the Russian icebreakers please.

[@winklelaltlanchhunga4313]

Why done they just design the ship in that shape? Just curious

[@winklelaltlanchhunga4313]

@@KevinSorbo. ok

[@malcontender6319]

Be like your morals, go bankrupt.

[@TheTabbylyn]

Where can we watch the full episode?

[@Edfiki86]

Great video but cbc can ligma

[@TheJOSHTAY100]

cant wait to see all of canada new ships built in canada , the type 26 destroyer , harry de wolf artic patrol and ice breaker ship and 2 new huge icebreaker ships thats 32 new ships and new frigete

[@canadaguy20081]

Canadian 🇨🇦 muscle 💪

[@zubinshah9793]

So it's not global warming

[@greenestpotatoes]

Russian ice breakers are nice

[@robpotter1355]

Never forget, that Raw power is diesel, not solar, wind or battery. We don’t really have an alternative to the mighty Diesel engine.

[@errolflynn6150]

Wow,...I voted a CBC video up! That’s a change.

[@SilasCochran-zq5de]

I'm distracting myself during a pandemic while sitting atop a supervolcano cool video

[@outremer91]

This is Canadian af.

[@CaptArgo24]

Thanks KZbin recommendations

[@mickcarson8504]

What a mess, a mess you can't see because you don't understand the mess we've made.

[@wizzard5442]

Useless video, where was the "RAW POWER''?

[@garyradtke3252]

So irritating, buy bigger monitors and TV's to see more and the smart people cover it up with words and logos.

[@nihoggr1185]

So that's what 4x4 feel like to regular car users🤔

[@rimehoarfrost3059]

Oh Canada

[@mjanavel]

I served on an icebreaker (US). Quite an experience.

[@nancywood7471]

Awesome

[@StableNomad]

Does it cost extra to call in an icebreaker?

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

They looked so damn nice on our $50 bill ❤️

[@RichardShelton]

Way impressive!

[@woolywonders5546]

Amazing!

[@votpavel]

anybody know what the ship is called at 1:25 mark ?

[@realtedward]

CCGS Terry Fox, based in St. John's.

[@votpavel]

@@realtedward thanks alot

[@worldsojourner1]

Impressive

[@rboddington]

So this was not only paid for by a tax payer funded broadcaster, the CBC. The CBC also got money out of the Canada Media Fund as well?

[@FreeManFreeThought]

You do realise that CBC distributes programming made by other Canadian producers right?

[@rboddington]

@@FreeManFreeThought Yes., and the license fees are also paid via tax dollars.

[@papabits5721]

The Russians now those are icebreakers.

[@Pineconepicker1]

Then explain why it is, that in the mid 1970's while I lived in Arctic Bay Nunavut, two straight years, we went without most of our sealift supplies. It was then a small hamlet of about 500 dependent upon that food and supplies. What did come in lasted about 4 months. Thankfully many of us were able to hunt. We had meat and zero veg or fruit. This is nothing but Canadian government propaganda. I have since learned even though I now live back in a southern area, that the Canadian government under either liberals or conservatives are all talk and no action. Especially since their shift to capitalism. People no longer count.

[@adamrodgers9175]

Nunavut as itself didn't become a thing technically till the 90s before it was part of the territories and you must just have forgotten the indigenous wanted to control of what's theirs. That's what you have going on in your story. As much as you want to wave your first, native people chose that life the people of that land chose that life. Lucky even getting help. There's only a couple roads leading up north...fishing, hunting is the way of life up there. It's like the time Quebec wanted to seperate, want to be Canadian but don't want to be apart of, want individualism in their life but still want help from the rest of the country. Up north is basically it's own deal and people have forgotten that and the people wanted that. I'm not saying being mistreated is right, but when you fight back against the hand that feeds you, you won't be getting much to eat.

[@adamrodgers9175]

Two roads leading up the damn place and it's even hard to get there by plane these days....but why aren't you helping us, you say, in the 70s.

[@hazelpearson7807]

@@adamrodgers9175 there are no roads connecting settlements and towns on Baffin Island where Arctic Bay is. Get out a map and do some research.

[@MaxC_1]

"especially since their shift to capitalism" It was ALWAYS capitalist since the times Brits ruled the area

[@hines862009]

The earth has a feverrrrr. ~ Al Gore

[@andymat7359]

Al Gore has brain damage - Me

[@magnusqwerty]

Who cares about Canada!

[@blainclatworthy5423]

According to Gore and Suzuki, all the Arctic ice is melting, why would we need Ice breakers???????????

[@fabianreusch4870]

Don't get me wrong these Icebreakers are super impressive, I imagine even more so when you see them in RL. But the Russian nuclear powered ones are even more impressive if that makes sense...

[@S62bhas]

Please Don't Scold God

[@kevingibperry]

That's bad azz.

[@LucVNO]

What makes this truly incredible is the ice is supposed to have been melted almost ten years ago.... but I'm sure that Northwest Passage will open up any day now.

[@qzh]

reading is fun www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019-arctic-sea-ice-extent-fourth-lowest-on-record

[@woolyhighlander7280]

global warming is a Hoax !

[@scotti.6433]

@@woolyhighlander7280, and you`re an idiot, and facts are fun.

[@mosesgoldbergshekelstien1520]

@@scotti.6433 it is though, climate change is real look at the warming period in history from 800-1100 Britain was filled with vineyards and the Vikings colonised Greenland with permanent settlements with large populations for the time, there were also cooling periods like what happened in 400 AD that pushed the Huns out of eastern Russia and the Germanic and Slavic tribes out of northern Russia

[@matthewwilson5019]

@@scotti.6433 nope global warming is a scam and not real.

[@arneservatius8686]

Canada is Americas super power!

[@poly_hexamethyl]

I guess that makes Russia Canada's super power since it has larger arctic icebreakers :-)

[@nessuno1948]

Better if they stayied at home and let the Artc alone.

[@mosesgoldbergshekelstien1520]

0:47 does the container ship have its own tug boats ? That’s really cool and useful Show us some of those massive new Russian nuclear powered icebreakers

[@eifionjones559]

@@bobclay2808 no they are cargo

[@poksnee]

"Show us some of those massive new Russian nuclear powered icebreakers" Yes, they are the best.

[@Generik97]

Why on earth would a non ice breaking vessel be sailing thru an ice filled area? That's like driving a sedan in the middle of the woods...

[@GaisSacredCreations]

Northwest passage when it's actually ice free for a few weeks during the summer is a less costly and much shorter distance for cargo ships instead of going through the Panama canal.

[@jmarglit5245]

It's bringing non-perishable groceries, furniture, appliances, vehicles, construction materials ... to communities in the north that have no road access

[@isabelt.rodriguez3843]

Go take whatever you need to when it's clear NOT! When there's ice. PLEASE! GET SOME COMMON SENSE! And you're destroying the Ice for the Polar bears.

[@woolyhighlander7280]

Duh, it freezes again almost immediately right behind them, you obviously live in a warm apartment and know nothing ,like most sheep !

[@R.U.1.2.]

@@woolyhighlander7280 You are the one that,s wrong . In the summer the temperatures are above freezing. It's a fragile eco-system, for many species including man. Read a book, about global warming.

[@R.U.1.2.]

@Bill New York They are a nuisance around the towns of Churchill Manitoba on Hudson's Bay because there is no ice and no food. Their population as a whole is definitely not growing. No matter how hard some people want to pretend that the ice is not melting, at an alarming rate... it is happening and, it needs to be accepted and dealt with. I'm not sure what pleasure people get out of denying climate change. It's counter-intuitive, to say the least.

[@GaisSacredCreations]

Read up on the history of the discovery of the Northwest passage and its impact on trade. When the passage is clear of ice during the short summer months in the Arctic depending of course on the unpredictable weather, it is a less costly and shorter trip for ships, especially cargo. Instead of going through the Panama Canal to reach the Pacific, the NW passage saves billions of $$ to shipping companies which impact the cost of supply and demand. BTW, just for your information, more polar bears are killed by organised hunting companies in the USA and Canadian northern communities that cater to rich people from all over the world that pay top dollar to kill Polar Bears. Research it.

[@R.U.1.2.]

@@GaisSacredCreations The purpose is not to sell this pristine and unique environment in Canada to the highest bidder. The Inuit people are allowed, by tradition to hunt walrus, whales, and Polar bears on a quota system. Part of that quota can be used for licensed hunters led by Inuit guides as a means for them to make a living. How does removing that environment that allows these animals to even exist, seem logical? We don't WANT foreign shipping and it's inevitable oil spills and pollution just so the conglomerates like Cosco and Maersk can make billions... I believe this is exactly your point. We don't WANT that. I speak as a Canadian shareholder and steward of this untouched environment, and I know I also speak for my fellow Canadians concerned about climate change and the damage this will cause. A viable option of making marine protected areas, that people can enjoy in perpetuity using Inuit guides, is one of many solutions. Anyone can easily hunt a Polar bear with just a hammer because it will relentlessly track and come to you, they are their own worst enemy, so that mindset has to be changed as well. Things need to change for the better, and that's our job ahead. You offer no practical solutions for this beautiful and serene untouched environment. I have researched this, it, and other histories of the Northwest passage, which were school subjects for every Canadian student, and much more, have experienced it first hand. These are our waters.