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...Increased pressure at lower depths is a factor in keeping Dr. Scholander's arctic fish in circulation, but is not enough to explain the mystery...
...Norwegian island 165 miles inside the Arctic Circle, engineers are blasting an airfield out of rock. In Balikesir, where two years ago Turks welcomed their first U.S.-made jets by sacrificing a sheep, Turkish pilots stand ready to "scramble" whenever the radar indicates enemy aircraft. Both outposts, and with them an immense array of armies, navies and air fleets, are joined together in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, history's greatest peacetime military alliance...
...summer's work with elaborate apparatus in a prefabricated laboratory did not solve the mystery; it added another mystery. Dr. Scholander found that arctic fish which live in the slightly warmer water at the surface will freeze solid if they are chilled in surface experiments to the temperature prevailing at the bottom. But when such fish were actually lowered into the cold depths, they did not freeze. Most of them were alive and active when hoisted back to the surface...
...mysteries of arctic life is how fish manage to survive in water so cold that their blood ought to freeze solid. In Hebron Fjord in Northern Labrador, the water at the bottom, 60 fathoms down, stays at - 1.0°C. (28.94° F.) winter and summer. There are plenty fish in it, leading active lives, but when their blood is extracted and chilled, it freezes at -.8° to -1.0° C., nearly a full degree above the temperature in which they live normally...
...Grief. Not a tree or shrub rose from the sea of stones that covered the desolate land, and the nearest settlement was 156 miles away. Frau Ritter lived on seal and bear meat, survived raging blizzards, solitude, and the long winter night. In the end, she discovered the typical Arctic philosophy-a little like the sensation just before freezing-that nothing really matters very much. An unpretentious but arresting book about life south of nowhere...