NORTHERN EXPOSURE TEEKAY READIES LNG CREW FOR THE ARCTIC

摘要

Deborah Sloan is talking about mittens. She's an expert, these days, in the relative merits of different kinds of hand protection. She hands me a large black glove, pointing out the extra padding that shields the knuckles and finger joints. "The brand is SealSkinz," she says. "We found that it offers much better protection than the materials we originally tested. These gloves have fingers, as you see, but we'll be ordering mittens as well." Since February 2015, Ms Sloan and her 25 Yamal LNG project task force colleagues have learned a lot about gloves. They've also learned that there are 21 types of sea ice, that Siberia is home to several thousand hungry polar bears and that reinforced bin-bags and a dustpan and brush can help you to survive if you abandon ship and are stranded on the ice, waiting to be rescued.