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Oden Second Officer, Niklas Hammarqvist, on the bridge.

Oden Second Officer, Niklas Hammarqvist, on the bridge.
Oden Second Officer, Niklas Hammarqvist, on the bridge.
Oden Second Officer, Niklas Hammarqvist, on the bridge.
Oden Second Officer, Niklas Hammarqvist, on the bridge.
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Linder, Christopher
Oden Second Officer, Niklas Hammarqvist, on the bridge.
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08/13/2007
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The greatest challenge of working in the Arctic is moving and positioning the ship within the ice pack. The ship can't simply go where you want it, nor can it tow instruments over places scientists want to investigate. Instead, Oden's crew (including Second Officer Niklas Hammarqvist on the bridge, above) calculated the direction and speed of the ice pack drift and positioned the ship upstream of the drift, so that ship and instrument could drift over the target. The margin for error is small-half a ship's length off, and the instrument might miss the target. "The crew of the icebreaker Oden are an exceptional group," Reves-Sohn said. "We asked them to do things they had never done before, and they did everything we asked without blinking an eye. They worked hard to make every aspect of our science successful, and they deserve no small amount of credit. Simply put, the scientific and technological results we have achieved would not have been possible without the outstanding efforts of the Oden and her crew."
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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