TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coen,Ross Allen
TI  - Breaking ice for Arctic oil: the epic voyage of the SS Manhattan through the Northwest Passage 
SN  - 1602231702
AV  - HE595.P4 C64 2012eb
U1  - 387.2/45 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Fairbanks
PB  - University of Alaska Press
KW  - Manhattan (Tanker)
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Petroleum
KW  - Transportation
KW  - Alaska
KW  - Tankers
KW  - United States
KW  - Oil fields
KW  - Pétrole
KW  - Transport
KW  - TRANSPORTATION
KW  - Ships & Shipbuilding
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Northwest Passage
KW  - Nord-Ouest, Passage du
KW  - Arctic Ocean
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index; Strike at Prudhoe Bay State no. 1 -- No cream puff -- Submarines, blimps, trains, and ships -- "Bienvenu dans ces eaux. Welcome to Canadian waters" -- A floating laboratory -- In the passage -- Through the passage -- What did the Manhattan prove? -- Roundtrip -- Epilogue
N2  - In 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to test the logistical and economic feasibility of an all-marine transportation system for Alaska North Slope crude oil. Proposed as an alternative to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the Manhattan made two voyages to the North American Arctic and collected volumes of scientific data on ice conditions and the behavior of ships in ice. Although the Manhattan successfully navigated the Northwest Passage-closing a five-hundred-year chapter of Arctic exploration by becoming
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