Eastwind Ripping Ice Channel - Operation Deep Freeze 1963. The 269-ft., 6,515-ton U. S. Coast Guard icebreaker Eastwind rips open a channel through frozen McMurdo Sound for cargo ships carrying personnel, equipment, and supplies for scientific stations in Antarctic. In some areas the ice is 10 to 20 feet thick.

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