Tourists rescued from breakaway ice floe in Canadian Arctic

According to theherald.com, an Australian tourist has survived a freezing ordeal after his tour group was stranded on a drifting and sinking ice floe in the Canadian Arctic. Melbourne surgeon Professor Ian Jones was in a group of about 30 tourists and guides who were stuck after the slab of ice broke off from Baffin Island and floated 18 kilometres out to sea. “It was a pretty strong current. For about 24 hours we floated at about a kilometre an hour,” he said on Thursday after being rescued by the Canadian Air Force. Read article