Henk De Velde; this is the North, this is the Ice - It's over
Oct 6, 2004 21: 18 EST
Henk De Velde; this is the North, this is the Ice - It's over
Published Sep 8, 2004 11: 38 EST
September 3 disaster struck the Campina: "For two days we had laid rather comfortably moored to an ice chunk in three meters of water.
"Ice floes clashed against each other constantly with a power enough to crack my ship. Around 4 hours before darkness fell, the ice berg that we had been anchored to broke.
A heavy iceberg pressed the boat
"We maneuvered Campina to a larger ice berg, between the floating ice. Then the flow twisted and a heavy iceberg pressed the boat against the wall of ice. We were crooked 10 degrees. The iceberg pressed the boat onto underwater ice. I heard an enormous cracking
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