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Head-on shot from helicopter of Oden breaking ice.

Head-on shot from helicopter of Oden breaking ice.
Head-on shot from helicopter of Oden breaking ice.
Head-on shot from helicopter of Oden breaking ice.
Head-on shot from helicopter of Oden breaking ice.
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Linder, Christopher
Head-on shot from helicopter of Oden breaking ice.
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09/11/2007
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Among Oden's coolest features is a system of 12 water jets on its bow and a pump system that can shoot out 10,000 to 20,000 cubic meters of water per hour. The jets come in handy in several ways. First, they wet the ice in front of Oden, allowing the relatively flat-bottomed ship to slide up and onto ice floe and break the ice with its weight. Another system can pump water from one side of the ship to another to roll Oden to one side and help ease it onto ice. Finally, jets can bubble the water around the vessel's bow, keeping an area ice-free to deploy instruments into the ocean.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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