CCGS Amundsen
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: Mighty Ships
- Grade Level: Junior High (7-9)-Adult
- Subjects: Technology, Design
- Produced By: Exploration Production Inc.
- Year: 2011
- Country: Canada
- Language: English
- Running Time: 46m
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Canadian Coast Guard Ship Amundsen is a rare breed of ship; a research icebreaker whose job is to battle Arctic extremes to understand how global warming will radically change life in the high Arctic. Amundsen is the vanguard of a rising wave of ships that will soon navigate a real Northwest Passage. For 500 years, mariners have sought the Holy Grail; an Arctic route to the Orient. Global warming is now turning fiction into fact as the indomitable Arctic icepack melts revealing open, navigable water.