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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Oh, to have cornered the market on ice scrapers. 
Was it the shear weight of all of that ice that swamped those boats? |
Apparently so. I was watching the history channel a couple a days ago and this show called "Subzero" or something was on, and it said that boats in the Arctic actually use baseball bats to break up the ice (according to them, its the most effective way without causing damage to the ship) because the ice can accumulate in such huge amounts that the boat will start to rock more slowly and eventually overturn and/or sink.