The stomach grows uneasy unless one has sea legs and Dramamine pills from the ship's medic. The ship shakes. It backs up and rams again. As always, it does make it. The ocean and ice ahead look like a blue Slurpee from 7-Eleven.
Snow piles up like whipped cream.
The ship cuts the ice more easily now. The ice swirls and turns over. Behind the ship is a trail of crushed chunks. With the naked eye, Dan Crosbie, an ice service specialist with the Canadian government's department of environment, sees a difference in the ice. What we used to face were drastic conditions.