The Man who Broke through the Northwest Passage

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on May 16, 2019   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

  Fifty years ago, a ship long as the Empire State Building sailed toward obstacles that captains usually avoid. The icebreaking tanker SS Manhattan was an oil company’s attempt to see if it might be profitable to move Alaska oil to the East Coast by plowing through the ice-clogged Northwest Passage. Begging his way aboard […]