[Newsbot]

Title: Scientists 'in shock' after Canada's premiere icebreaker docked for repairs
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2012-01-29 18:55:47
Canadian

[bootlegga]

This is exactly why Canada needs more than one heavy icebreaker. We should be building tat least wo replacements, not just the CGS Diefenbaker.

[BartSimpson]

Canada has but one ship to patrol the Arctic? And it's alongside for the forseeable future?

On the upside of this news I guess the Northwest Passage is open to US & Russian submarine traffic again.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

BartSimpson wrote:

Canada has but one ship to patrol the Arctic? And it's alongside for the forseeable future?

On the upside of this news I guess the Northwest Passage is open to US & Russian submarine traffic again.

Yeah, like either country has respected Canada's Arctic sovereignty regardless.

[jeff744]

So we find billions of dollars for jets that can't even communicate from the North but only find enough cash to build one icebreaker? Why not bring back the Polar 8 project so we can actually do something?

[andyt]

Premiere means first performance - so it was barely out to sea and it needed repairs?

[bootlegga]

andyt wrote:

Premiere means first performance - so it was barely out to sea and it needed repairs?

No, in this case, it means it is Canada's best equipped vessel for Arctic research.

[andyt]

That would be premier. Just as it's not premiere Redford.

[BartSimpson]

PublicAnimalNo9 wrote:

BartSimpson wrote:

Canada has but one ship to patrol the Arctic? And it's alongside for the forseeable future?

On the upside of this news I guess the Northwest Passage is open to US & Russian submarine traffic again.

Yeah, like either country has respected Canada's Arctic sovereignty regardless.

The Force is strong in this one.