MIGHTY SHIPS — CCGS AMUNDSEN

On a dangerous expedition to the northwest passage the ice breaker Amundsen must push herself to the brick. But deadly weather and icebergs threaten her critically important mission to take twenty four specialists including scientists and researchers to the absolute roof of the world and later bring them back alive.

Inside the Arctic circle, the CCG, i.e. Canadian Coast Guard ice breaker Amundsen does what she was originally built to do. Longer than a football field and powerful enough to plow through three meters of ice, the Amundsen is one of the very limited number of research ice breakers on the planet and a real state-of-the-art vessel.

With twelve world-class laboratories on board and multi-beam echo sounder mapping the ocean floor and other sophisticated scientific equipment, she is really battle-tested workhorse...