Past Ice Projects Photo
Gallery
Canatec has participated in projects in the following regions:
Offshore work in the Canadian Beaufort Sea has started up in the
past 3 years after a long hiatus from the early 1980s. Canatec is deeply
involved with this activity.
Crew Change aboard Seismic Vessel in Beaufort Sea
Seismic operations in Beaufort Sea
Beaufort Sea ice, summer 2005
Test Assembly of an Automated Iridium Weather Station for Deployment in the
Beaufort Offshore
During the 1970s and early 1980s, the Beaufort Sea was the focus of
billions of dollars of investment in research, innovation of offshore
vessels and structures capable of working in severe ice conditions, new
operational techniques and new regulations. Canatec's senior staff and
associates were there in this pioneering time.
Accelerating ice melt with coal dust - McKinley Bay, NWT (Canadian Marine Drilling Ltd.)
Broken ice in wake of an icebreaking support vessel - Beaufort Sea
Icebreaking drill barge Kulluk seen from icebreaking supply boat - Beaufort Sea
Ice management near icebreaking drill barge Kulluk - Beaufort Sea
Ice pile-up at Steel Drilling Caisson (SDC) rig - Beaufort Sea
Detail of ice pile-up at Steel Drilling Caisson (SDC) rig - Beaufort Sea.
Kulluk icebreaking drill barge and icebreaking supply vessel - Beaufort Sea.
Molikpaq drilling structure - Beaufort Sea (structure currently operating in Sea of Okhotsk, Russia)
Ice off the Alaskan Beaufort Sea coast (NOAA weather satellite scene)
Offshore logistics support - Beaufort Sea
Helicopter departing drilling platform
Detail of Steel Drilling Caisson (SDC) operation - Beaufort Sea
Detail of Steel Drilling Caisson (SDC) operation - Beaufort Sea
Steel Drilling Caisson (SDC) on location (Canadian Marine Drilling Ltd.)
As ice conditions in the Arctic generally become less severe, interest in
using Canada's Northwest Passage for shipping has grown. Our many detailed
studies in this region show there are still great obstacles to vessel
transit as ice conditions in some areas have grown more severe, despite
generalized global warming.
Ice in the Northwest Passage, 2005 (NOAA weather satellite scene)
Amundsen Gulf from space (NOAA satellite scene)
Melting Multiyear Hummock Field off Prince Patrick Island with embedded
Ice Island Fragments
Preparing to Drop Beacons from DC3 Aircraft offshore Prince Patrick
Island
Massive First Year floe with
embedded MultiYear and Ice Island Fragments northeast of Tuktoyaktuk
Preparing to Emplace a Drift Beacon on Ice Island offshore Axel Heiberg
Island
Ice Island Fragment in Fjord of Ellesmere Island in melting first year
field
Ice Island offshore Ellesmere Island (photo courtesy of Dr. Derek
Mueller, CIS)
Development of open water off Point Barrow, Alaska (NOAA weather satellite scene)
Swedish Icebreaker Odin during operations off Northeastern Greenland
Icebreaking patterns offshore Greenland
Curious Polar Bear watching our Sea/Ice Trial
Sakhalin Island, Sea of Okhotsk (NOAA weather satellite scene)
Sakhalin Island NOAA Image from April 2005
Gulf of Ob, Russia, from space (NOAA weather satellite scene)
Gulf of Ob, Russia, from space (NASA Terra satellite scene)
NE Caspian Sea – Rafted Young Ice
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Antarctica Project
Antarctica Project
Antarctica Project
Antarctica Project
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