What it Sounds Like Inside an Ice Breaker

ARCTIC OCEAN - The Coast Guard Cutter Healy churns its way through ice that has been broken by the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent Aug. 27, 2009. The whooshing sound is slushy ice sliding along the hull and the loud bangs are large chunks of ice that were left in the trail cut by the Canadian ship. The audio was captured from inside the bow of the Healy. (U.S. Coast Guard audio clip by Petty Officer Patrick Kelley)

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[TRUMPHENT]

Hey, that's my washing machine!

[GerryK61]

Sounds the same as my X-wife in the bath tub!

[CoastGuardGary]

@azstumbler How about up in the forepeak hawser locker?

[blyndeyed]

@GerryK61 rofl

[MrNewtthecat]

I did one rip south on the Glaicer. I had to sleep with head phones on in OPS berthing

[boxchamp4114]

but it didn't look like you were moving lol

[CaptainGeek5]

ice cutters dont actually cut the ice but they break it by their weight when they travel above it.

[azstumbler]

this is quiet, try it from the forward berthing of a Wind class breaker. Like finger nails on a chalk board

[rTin099]

@GerryK61 that is my X-WASHIN' MACHINE AT MY HOUSE!!

[sminthian]

You were only there for a few weeks, Pat. You should try living on it for 3 years...

[kaden8483]

I spent almost 4 years on board the cutter southwind 280. 1966-70 4x in the arctic 2x palmer station Antarctica. Once at mcmurdo. Nice liberty place down south America .

[PowwowTime]

Holy cow what a noisy tin can she is! I spent two years on the Polar Sea, we went through several feet of new hard ice day in and day out near Thule up north and McMurdo down south and the racket was never that obnoxious. The slush against the hull put me soundly to sleep every time I hit the rack. It was the good life.