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Climate change allows 3 explorers to boldly sail where no man has sailed before

The three-man crew of the 31-foot Belzebub II, a fiberglass sailboat “with a living space the size of a bathroom,” told the world today how they sailed through the M’Clure Strait in northern Canada, a “decreasingly ice-packed route through the famed Northwest Passage.” Warming global temperatures and melting polar ice caps made it possible. The crew’s original blog post is here. (LAT)

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