Icebreaker ships are engineering marvels designed to navigate and conquer some of the harshest icy waters on the planet.

Think icebreakers simply smash through ice like a bulldozer? Think again. This video reveals the surprising and sophisticated ways icebreaker ships navigate through frozen waters. Rather than merely ...

Icebreakers are highly specialized ships with the ability not just to sail the seven seas, but also to crash through the ice on frozen oceans. Taking to ice-laden water has always been fraught ...

As tensions rise to grab Arctic resources, the U.S. is racing to construct a new icebreaker vessel that can secure a foothold ...

The Fifty Years of Victory and the other ship both sustained hull damage following the incident ... installation and life support systems on the icebreaker. Initial reports failed to explain ...

The icebreaker’s paint — blue at the time — was fresh, its hull shiny. It looked capable. The problems began once the Aiviq was out of view. A Coast Guard report said that while the ship ...

Photographs of the icebreaker show a huge chunk torn out of its bow hull area." Built at the Baltic ... Listed as a general cargo ship, the freighter is 502.6 feet long and 77.4 feet wide.

The icebreaker’s paint — blue at the time — was fresh, its hull shiny. It looked capable. The problems began once the Aiviq was out of view. A Coast Guard report said that while the ship ...

The hull of Russia's only nuclear-powered Rossiya icebreaker is currently under construction at the Bolshoy Kamen shipyard in Vladivostok, where ship-tracking website Vesselfinder indicated that ...

spent a decade working on hull-strength analysis to figure out just where an icebreaker needs to be strong and where designers can save steel. That matters enormously when building a ship that is ...

The icebreaker’s paint — blue at the time — was fresh, its hull shiny. It looked capable. The problems began once the Aiviq was out of view. A Coast Guard report said that while the ship ...