The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star has engines that can deliver 75,000 horsepower. That's 25 times the punch of the icebound Shokalskiy, the ship that the Polar Star has now set out to rescue.
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star has engines that can deliver 75,000 horsepower. That's 25 times the punch of the icebound Shokalskiy, the ship that the Polar Star has now set out to rescue.
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star has engines that can deliver 75,000 horsepower. That's 25 times the punch of the icebound Shokalskiy, the ship that the Polar Star has now set out to rescue.
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star has engines that can deliver 75,000 horsepower. That's 25 times the punch of the icebound Shokalskiy, the ship that the Polar Star has now set out to rescue.
U.S. cutter Polar Star has 25 times the punch of the Shokalskiy and 5.5 times the horsepower of the Chinese rescue ship Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, which is itself now trapped in thick, frozen ice along with the Russian vessel.