One of Iqaluit's hunters was stranded on an ice pan today. Mr. Chris Gerioux was stranded on the sea ice when a section of the ice floe broke off from the ice pack and drifted out to sea. Mr. Gerioux was stranded along with his snow mobile for over 13 hours.
The ice pan was roughly 100 ft. by 50 ft. in size but began to break up as the water became rough. The ice pan broke in half and threatened to disintegrate leaving Mr. Gerioux to drown in the freezing waters of Frobisher Bay. Chris was eventually spotted by a passing hunter. He was rescued and his snowmobile was salvaged. Chris is very fortunate to be alive. The tidal currents would have surely floated him out into high seas where he would have met an icy fate.
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