Yahoo!: I have mixed feelings about news a sailboat named Belzebub II has managed to make its way safely through the northernmost route of the Northwest Passage. On one hand, the voyage by Canadian Nicolas Peissel, Swede Edvin Buregren and American Morgan Peissel, is a tremendous feat of seamanship. On the other hand, the fact they could do it in a nine-metre-long, 35-year-old fibreglass sailboat underscores the effect of climate change on the Arctic. That was one of the expedition's objectives,...
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