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Master wooden boat builder Olivier D. Huin is back with his crew of Arctic explorers, this time with a much bolder chall | dG1fd1NDU2NsMzk4UXc
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00:0035 years ago, I bought a tree.
00:06I worked for 16 to 18 hours a day until I had a beautiful yellow bud.
00:12My ancestors and I have been seafarers for as long as we can trace, but none of us have
00:19ever sailed through the Arctic.
00:21Operators of pleasure craft considering a Northwest passage should also consider the
00:25risk of having to winter in a safe haven in the Arctic, or in the case of an emergency,
00:31be evacuated from ESET vessels.
00:33If you fall overboard, you're dead.
00:36No chance.
00:37You will fall only once.
00:38No, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop!
00:41If we go too far this way, there'll be more ice.
00:44We were following in the footsteps of legendary explorers who had tried and failed for hundreds
00:51of years before us.
00:53We know it's not a tourist area.
00:55We know it's not calm.
01:036,000 miles through a constantly moving maze of Arctic sea ice.
01:18That boat is my life.
01:20It's my soul.
01:22But this soul is her, so I need to fix it.

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