[Frozen Baltic Sea]
[Polar Explorer boat]
[Explorer boat breaking ice as it travels on the Baltic Sea, as seen from the bridge, with passengers on the main deck]
[Ice being broken as Polar Explorer travels]
[Passengers on main deck]
Frank Hammerø (interview): “This one (boat) has a special shape of the hull, especially the bow, has a special icebreaker bow on it. And compared to a similar vessel not designed for icebreaking, then they have more horsepower.”
[Second captain driving the Polar Explorer]
Frank Hammerø (interview): “It’s a big responsibility but that’s part of the game here. That’s why we are doing this. It’s to take out people and show them how we make ice roads.”
[Bridge to main deck, music playing in the background]
[Passengers on main deck]
[Baltic Sea]
[Passengers swimming in survival suits in the Baltic Sea]
Olga Robacha (interview): “Normally, everyone swims. Even people who are not considering it in the beginning. They think, ‘No, that’s not for me. It’s too scary, too dangerous, too cold.’ When they understand that it’s not scary at all and you don’t have to have swimming skills, you cannot drown in these suits, and they are very warm, we’re dressing them over the normal clothes, it’s not the bikini. So you put it on your even on (top of) the upper clothes.”
[Changing room where passengers are dressed in survival suits]
[Passengers swimming in the Baltic Sea]
Tourists (interview): “I loved it, it was everything I hoped it would be and more.”
Polar Explorer at sea, passengers walking on ice
Olga Robacha (interview): “This season is what we call ‘boom after Corona.’ So we get the people who missed travelling for the last few years, and after Asia got closed for a few years, now it’s open, and it’s like the effect of the cut pipe when it starts just splashing.”
[Passengers walking on ice]
[Boat]
This script was provided by The Associated Press.