Canada’s CCGS Amundsen Icebreaker
The CCGS Amundsen is one of Canada’s icebreakers that does double shifts in the summer as a science and research vessel. As part of the 2012 International Polar Year conference, the Canadian Coast Guard brought the icebreaker to the port of Montreal so the public could get a close-up view of the vessel. I attended the media visit on Saturday and spent a couple of hours poking around the vessel speaking to the captains that navigate it and the scientists and researchers that have worked on it.
Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca