I was in one of the “smaller” tankers (76,000 dwt) calling Valdez during the late Eighties. We anchored at Jack Bay once, due to the port being shut-down from the cold! I spent the first afternoon knocking down a heavy layer of ice from the firefighting monitors and other strategic locations on deck with a length of 2X4. We’d encountered a series of lows Northbound that wouldn’t let us be.
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