R22 Beta missing on flight from Nunavut to Greenland

[newfieboy]

Mmmm.....if anyone would know survival on the floes it would be the Inuit. I talked with an Innu friend last night who was out on the floes hunting last week. He figures something smells and it ain't Polar Bear poo!!!!!!

[Nubian]

Regarding climbing on ice floe he wrote it was 50cm height and in another interview he mentioned he wasted many efforts to climb there.

Anyone that has tried to get into a life-raft, that has ladders and handles as help, and know how much you actually struggle in normal temperatures (10-20 deg C) would know what I talk about.
Now, getting UP 50 cm of slippery ice, with a half full emergency suit on, (after swimming 50 meters in between 0-2 deg C.) I'd hazard to say is impossible.

He was trying to land on ice floe but ditched near it.

I think a much more likely scenario, is that he managed to land on the ice and get out before the ice gave way or ... .... ... . ...... .... .... ... .....

[Outwest]

Not knowing the area there for the crossing, why wouldn't one fly up to the airport at Cape Dryer and cross from there? It is the shortest distance between the two landmasses with less exposure time over water...

That's exactly what a good friend and I did.....and we were in a S61N

It is Cape Dyer by the way.....an old DEW line site.

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Nubian

[Loki696]

His story about how to survive and scare away polar bears.....

?I had to scare off 3 polar bears on Arctic ice? ? Russian helicopter crash survivor ? RT News

[AnFI]

Similar suit not done up here (3 dead)

Arctic helicopter crash details emerge - CBC News - Latest Canada, World, Entertainment and Business News

either

(and a twin, cause known yet?)