1. “Arctia’s icebreakers are an iconic sight on the shore of Helsinki,” he says

2. When most people hear the word “iceBreaker,” they think of boring, silly, or awkward iceBreakers

3. Icebreakers with reinforced hulls must plow through frozen water to keep sea traffic moving year-round.

4. Retrofitting two of its icebreakers with state-of-the art catalytic converters opens up a whole new market for the Finnish company Arctia Shipping

5. The Yamal is one of Russia's biggest, most powerful icebreakers, and one of the few ships in the world capable of cutting through the thick Arctic pack ice.

6. The steel plates in the bow may be well over one inch thick [3 cm] —on polar icebreakers even up to two inches thick [5 cm]— and the body of the ship has specific ice-reinforcement ribs in addition to the regular ones.

7. The Bathymetric source data used in the construction of IBCAO Version 3.0 grid consist of historic and recent under-ice soundings collected by submarines of the United States and the United Kingdom, historic and recent observations collected on icebreakers and ice camps and information portrayed in published navigation and compilation charts.