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On October 7, 1988, Inupiaq hunter Roy Ahmaogak discovered three gray whales trapped in pack ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] The hunter used a chainsaw to attempt cutting a path in the ice leading to open water.
Feb 26, 2023 · On October 7, 1988, 'Operation Breakthrough' was a rare US-Soviet cooperation to free three juvenile gray whales that became trapped in pack-ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow, Alaska....
Feb 7, 2012 · Almost 25 years ago, the world's attention was rapt on three gray whales stranded by encroaching sea ice off the coast of Alaska and the effort to free them.
Feb 6, 2012 · The whales were coaxed from breathing hole to breathing hole, slowly moving out toward the open ocean. Operation Breakthrough. On the other side of the frozen ice, a Soviet icebreaker was...
Feb 6, 2012 · Experts move sea ice out of the way for the two surviving gray whales during 1988's Operation Breakthrough, as the mission was called. One of the three original whales did not survive the rescue...
In October 1988, three gray whales became trapped in pack ice near Point Barrow. With help from the local Barrow community, a 5-ton-hammer dropping helicopter and two USSR ice breakers, a path was cut and two of the whales were thought to have survived.
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On October 7, 1988, a hunter reported three gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) trapped in pack ice near Point Barrow, Alaska, United States. The rescue effort that followed, nicknamed “Operation Breakthrough,” involved regional, national, and international cooperation.
