At Point Wild stands a bronze bust of Captain Luis Pardo, who on August 30, 1916, brought his ship “Yelcho” close enough to the rugged coast of Elephant Island for Shackleton to pick up his 22 men. Now there is a second bust in a slightly more accessible...
Disturbing the sound of silence (Photo: Sovcomflot) As workplaces, ships must live up to tight regulations for how much noise their crews are exposed to. One key way of doing this is the guidelines, adopted in 2012 by the IMO, the UN agency that sorts out the minutiae...
The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) is an Indigenous Peoples’ Organization (IPO), founded in 1977 to promote and celebrate the unity of 180,000 Inuit from Alaska (USA), Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka (Russia). ICC works to promote Inuit rights, safeguard the Arctic...
Even Canadian Coast Guard Icebreakers are ‘black smokers’ (Photo: Sebastian Moser) On November 20, 2020, the IMO’s Marine Environment Committee in a virtual meeting decided to ban the use and transport of heavy fuel oil (HFO) in the Arctic Ocean. The...