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Sailing the North Pole

Sailing the North Pole

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 1, 2010

Runtime

0h 52m

Genres

Documentary, Adventure

User Score

70%

Original Title

La voie du pôle

Production Companies

Le Cinquième Rêve, MFP

Director

Thierry Robert

Description

This is a documentary about the expedition of Sebastien Roubinet et Rodolphe André who have decided to cross the Arctic Ocean from Alaska to the Norwegian islands of Spitsbergen, via the geographic North Pole! For this, Sébastien Roubinet has invented a strange little boat "TiBabouche" capable of sailing on sea and on ice. This boat is a prototype brimming with technology and science, made-up by Hervé Le Goff, a CNRS engineer. It will allow Hervé to calibrate the satellite “Cryosat”, the first one capable of measuring the thickness of ice.