Ice Breakers Saves Cruise Ship From Pack Ice | X-Machines 

Love how they time traveled between the ice breaker broken down to suddenly they’re together and in thinner ice.

I love how these documentaries make a completely normal everyday action seem like an unprecedented event that none of the people were ever prepared for or imagined.

I was on the Louis St Laurent over 40 years ago when I was in the Coast Guard. It wasn't new then. It was an amazing piece of technology back then. It is remarkable this ship is still working hard.

The ferry was built for service in the Baltic as Aurella in 1973 and is heavily ice strengthened, it was at no point in danger of sinking. It has 21,000 BHP main engines, so it has plenty of power to cope with quite bad conditions by itself. This is not to belittle the skill and effort of the icebreaker crew, but the narrative is just pure sensationalism.

They forgot the fact that the Vacancier is built with the highest ice class. She was originally built as m/s Aurella for Viking Line in Scandinavia and the winters can be nasty in the baltic sea so she is basically a small ice breaker. Not in the same extent as a real icebreaker but she can handle icy winters.

Don’t get me wrong this is really cool but they over dramatize everything

50 years of victory > literally every other ice breaker.

This is everyday operations for this Icebreaker, it's made out to be such a drama. That's how they are designed and built.

I’m Canadian, but I’ve grown up and spent my whole life in Toronto, which is practically tropical compared to the northern part of our country, LOL! Because we’re on the shores of Lake Ontario I’ve never seen an icebreaker, until I went to Quebec city last summer. The video doesn’t do it justice, There were two icebreakers there, both the same size, their freaking huge! From the video it just looks like a little ship, but close up, it’s basically the size of a cruise ship, I even got to go on board, And I have to say I was really impressed with all the modern technology. It’s amazing what these ships can do, the captain said he’s been through ice that’s over 15 feet thick, and when you go inside the ship you can see the bow, made out of solid steel, But it still amazes me it’s able to crush through that much ice. We don’t get a lot of ice in Toronto, because we’re quite far south, I’m a bad Canadian, I hate the cold and I hate snow, I don’t know how people can live in those environments, but I bet they’re glad to have that ship, It really was impressive, and I just got lucky because I asked someone standing at the dock if they do tours, and I was actually talking to the captain without knowing it, who graciously took us on a person we got a tour of the entire ship, but they never do tours for most of the public, I got lucky I guess. He told me that in the summertime, they dock the ships, and fix them up, replace whatever needs to be replaced, painted, upgraded technology, etc. He said it was an exciting job, but working three days straight without a break, no thank you!

Quest TV: This monster hull allows ice king to go where no other ship dares to venture!!!1 Russian nuclear icebreakers: Hold my vodka blyat.

I love these ice breakers. They truly are unsung hero's

They cut a lot out of this vid. It went from the ice breaker not being able to reach the ferry, to the ice breaker being in front of the ferry instantly without explanation.

I don’t for one second believe this is anything more than a normal day for the crew the video makes it seem like it’s the ultimate worst scenario.

This was not a rescue. It is normal maintenance of a ship channel. The ferry operates 3 days a week all winter. The trip takes 5 hours.

This was ten time more dramatic than it needed to be I'm currently working on the Louis S. St-Laurent and nobody on the ship has ever called her ice King or decide we are wagering war on the ice lol escorts like this happen on a daily basis sometimes up to five or six a day no biggie

I live on the shore of the fleuve St-Laurent. Those ice breakers and their captains, are impressive.

LOL 4:45 ice king stuck, next second video skips way ahead and it has already saved the ferry. Crappy editing.

Titanic : Can’t survive one iceberg Tiny Boat : Crushes ice

When people are willing to risk their lives to save others, that makes them the real heroes.

“The frozen arctic sea”. Near Prince Edward Island!! 🤣

I’ve been on the Louis St Laurent, 40 years ago. Very cool. I can’t believe that it is still in service.

After watching 75,000 hp nuclear ice breaker This seems to be a cruise ship

Honestly. I think all that Ice is beautiful. Look at it. All the clean surfaces.

Thank God for icebreakers. Great job everyone

You guys of the sea are legends, I salute you.

THE RUSSIANS LAUGH WHEN YOU CALL THIS SHIP A MONSTER.

🇨🇦🇨🇦just an average day for Canadian heros!

Thanks for posting this video!!!

ive been on that ferry its pretty fun its like a 5 hour trip but it was in the fall so nothing frozen yet

While I do enjoy seeing life on a heavy ice breaker and I agree that it’s work is very dangerous and important, this video totally over dramatized a day in the life of this vessel, not to mention it appears a whole segment or two are missing from the middle (not that I think the story merits being even longer in duration, just better edited).

Watching this video it make me glad that I live in a tropical place with island and beaches. We are not rich but we're happy

Canada has never had a cruiser since World War Two. It was a small CRUISE ship, that started to sink and everyone got off it safely.

Is your icebreaker stuck in the ice? Better call the Russians!

It’s a ferry, not a cruise ship.

Video editor: "let's take a rescue video, remove the most interesting parts, show the most boring parts but let juuuuust enough through to let viewers know there were far more interesting parts they missed, then narrate it with a "severe dramatic voice" and put a wildly dramatic title on it!" Evil Producer: Yeeeezz yeeezz! Zees eees a VONDERFUL ideeez! Do eeeeet! Ve vill make beeegest cleeeck bait veeeedeo eevar!"

6:36 That’s a 1 Long 2 short horn blast better known on the Great Lakes as a Captain’s Salute

gotta love the comment "frozen ice", is there another kind?

I think working on one of these ships in Canada would be the Coolest (Exciting) job ever!

the Russian ice breaker ships would of separated land if it was in front of it.

Normal day in winter here in Norway, but on the roads. :P

Ice: we will sink you Ice breaker: KOWABUNGA IT IS?!

It’s hilarious how they speak like the ferry is sinking fast and the icebreaker is their only hope of survival.

A good captain on a powerful ship,,is a good quarter back on a good team.

Why does my ice taste like water

A drone would be perfect here for an overview of the area and pockets of water to strategize where to go .

I worked on F/T Endurance in the Bering Sea fishing polluck / roe and we went through ice all the time, no big deal. Once we had to have an icebreaker come out because we got in too thick to turn around, but we had a double haul.

God Bless our Canadian Coast Guard! What a magnificent beauty.

The most smallest monster boats called little Bonner ice breaker are made by Iranian revolutionary Guards, It is a constant battle for them in Persian Gulf to keep the Strait of Hormuz open from icebergs for oil tankers and others to cross. These little things use only home made %20 yellow cake all are made in natanz. God Bless Pashm-ha

Cool! Proud of Canada!

This must be old because there is no sea ice left . I know this because Al Gore and that Science Guy told me so .

Great story. Those nations on the northern ice pack--Canada, U.S., Russia, Iceland, Norway, Finland and possibly Sweden, should consider teaming to build great ice breakers and establish rescue services. Not long ago, for example, an American ice breaker opened a path for a Russian fuel tanker to get to Nome, Alaska, and save the town's folk from freezing. It was a great story of teamwork in horrible, icy conditions.

Nice video. Thanks!

Everything's an icebreaker if you're brave enough!

Russian nuclear icebreaker: P A T H E T I C

Well damn,,I was waiting for a giant genius octopus,lol

nice to see back home

I love Ice Breakers

I see "Ice King" sailing through alot of open water and thin ice.

The sailor on the ice breaker has on a short sleeve shirt. He's superhuman.

Saw them in Quebec City summer 2019, where they dock for the off season for maintaince and repairs.....got lucky after asking a worker about them, he took me aboard for a private tour! Awesome ships, and seem a lot bigger in person, not to mention the technology in them.....it’s easy to see how they break the ice. The hull is like solid rock when hitting it with a hammer (he did that to demonstrate how thick the steel was). Apparently, we’re (Canada) ordered two new, bigger, and more powerful ones to patrol the north seas, as the current ships are aging, and will need to be replaced, but for a while, all 4 will work together to deal with the increased traffic through the northwest passage during the colder months. Because of climate change, it’s become a political hot potato, with my government under tremendous global political stress to declare the passage as international water, even though it’s well within the defined borders of my country. We stand to make a fortune as ships are increasingly using the northwest passage to cut thousands of kilometres off their shipping routes, connecting Asia to Europe without having to diverge all the way south to the Panama Canal. If we change even a fraction of what the PC charges ships for passage, we’ll need to start building the infrastructure to support such a venture (currently, we lack the necessary infrastructure to handle a proper shipping passage, having only 4 small ports). Now that we’re getting almost ice free summers, and much less ice in the cold seasons, ships are keen to use our waters, but we’d be fools not to benefit from it, and plans are underway to build not just the new icebreakers, but 4 more large ports, along with modifying the current 4 small ports to ones capable of handling both cruise and cargo ships of any size. It sure of the current status, as Covid has put the entire world on hold, but it’s going to happen, they’re encouraging people to move to these new Arctic communities in great numbers, offering huge tax incentives for both residential and commercial building/occupation. Stay tuned, this could get interesting!

lol, where exactly does this "ice machine" dispense from? Where do I put my glass?

Ive worked on a ice breaker. These overexaggerated dilemmas are just ridiculus

So much drama music and drama explanation for a winter daily routine in the Golf of St-Lawrence.

Awesome video ❤

Beautiful ideas nice photographer

O they are making this story like a horror movie.im sitting on the edge of my chair waiting if they make it or not .

Awesome 👏🏼 Keep up great work ice king 👑 You truly are a life saver god keep you safe and strong 💪🏻💫🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👏🏼

What a old museum ship Hahahahaha. Teknik from 1960

Great owesome help

Super cool video

Amazing

That is so over the top dramatic. Couldn't continue watching. This was just a "normal" icebreaking job, which would have been interesting enough but NO it needs to be a rescue mission!

Oh my goodness! How dramatic and scareeeeeee! The children!!

Well it looks like 30,000hp isn’t enough for the thick ice. Gotta push it up to 80,000 I guess 😂

I need this to get into my room . just push all the crap out of the way

The frozen sea looks so cool!!! But it's very dangerous, don't go "swimming" in this... Ice skating.... Not to sure •-•

So the answer to the title is YES. Just saved everyone 8 minutes...

Nice recommendations

The ferry is heading to Prince Edward Island, not the mainland. You have to drive through Prince Edward Island, across the Confederation Bridge to get to the New Brunswick mainland.

the vessel Abegweit used to break ice through this area, from1947 to 1982.. today it serves a stationary private yacht club in Chicago... it is slowly being restored to its once glory...it has 4 massive propellers i am told it chopped it way through the ice..

Respect to captain and crew Ice king ship... best regard from Indonesian

They don't get enough praise for what they do

I love Canada

Terrifying frozen landmass huh... What exactly is a terrifying frozen landmass?

What a rip-off. NONE of the rescue is shown.

The narrator is a legend no one knows how he looks but we know how he sounds

As far as I know, Russia has the iceking with more than double of its horsepower plus this candian king got stuck at 4:45 lol

monster ice machine? oh you mean an everyday ice breaker..;

i come from the magdalen island and take the ferry a fiew times a years about 5 years ago we got stuck in the ice for 3 days with wind gust of 153 boat was stable in the ice didnt feel it at all we where some happy to see that boat wen it made it to us

We don’t want to loose the ice we want to be saving it 😂😂

Lol these guys haven’t heard of the Russian icebreakers lol

Did it skip a segment?

Would have been nice to see how the Ice King got unstuck instead of magically arriving on scene to break way for the ferry 🙄

Great vedio

Looks like they would build a ferry with it's own capability of breaking the ice too

Definatly warming up there......

The ice king is no king when compared to Abe Froman the sausage king of Chicago

Tony! Tony Heller! You're right again ....

What was the cruise ship doing in that ice floe anyway??

Impressive