Word: floe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liner Maxim % Gorky had been sailing through the North Atlantic near Iceland, marveling at the dramatic Arctic scenery. Just after midnight on their ninth day out -- it was foggy, yet still light in the land of the midnight sun -- the 25,000-ton ship struck a partly submerged ice floe. Three gashes opened in the starboard forward hull below the waterline, one of them 18 ft. long...
...Birds (Abrams; 256 pages; $35) presents enthralling photographs of creatures that seem made for metaphor. They are clouds hovering pink and white across the surface of a lake, dive bombers plummeting to strike seaborne prey, bankers in tuxedoes posing in comic solemnity at a social event on an ice floe. But the easy, intelligent prose of Authors Les Line, Kimball L. Garrett and Kenn Kaufman allows the real creatures -- from the lava heron of the Galapagos to the bald eagle -- to emerge from the metaphors in full dimension. Not all the faces are pretty. The fierce marabou stork of Africa...
...journey south to rendezvous with the Benjamin Bowring, the expedition almost met with disaster. The ice pack had begun to break up, and the two explorers were forced to wait on an ice floe for 99 days. Despite a series of mishaps and a few brushes with polar bears, they were able to survive until the ship pushed to within seven miles of them. Said Fiennes...
...water outlet. Says he: "It don't take a smart individual to figure it out. If you go down and cut a 40-ft. path through the lake, and you get an offshore wind gusting 15 to 25 miles an hour, it's going to push that floe...
...that freezing north wind keeps blowing the lake may harden up enough for Chuck to get out on the ice again and drive his Datsun pickup back to shore. Chief Verb thinks he "hasn't a hope in hell," though the cars and trucks are still on the floe...