Today’s Wall Street Journal (September 13, 2007) has a front page article written by Douglas Belkin entitled As Arctic Ice Melts, Northwest Passage Beckons Sailors. (subscription required) However, a video and cool (pardon the pun) interactive map which highlights a number of attempts over the years can be viewed freely.
Technorati tags: climate change, Wall Street Journal, Northwest Passage, sailing
Oh, I almost forgot. PLEASE vote for this and any other story over at gCaptain’s Discoverer news website. (http://gcaptain.com/maritime/discoverer/user.php?login=seafever&view=published)
It will enter you into a contest to win my new iPod Shuffle and maybe help me win an iPhone from gCaptain. THANX!!!
Very cool! It will be interesting to hear about his adventure! Check back in and update us when you get the chance. Thanks for visiting and commenting.
My brother Matthew Drillio is on that sailboat.
Kelly and John, thanx for visiting and commenting. I thought the interactive map was really great too. Enjoying reading both of your blogs as usual. Thanks!
That is a ‘cool’ story. Great video too!
Great find!