Arctic Mission: The Great Adventure
How it feels
A documentary crew spends five months sailing from Montreal to Vancouver through the Northwest Passage. They show the beauty of the Canadian Arctic and explain how global warming threatens its fragile ecosystem.
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What happens
La grande traversée (English: The Great Adventure; also: Voyage of the Sedna (US); The Great Crossing) is a 2003 Canada-France short documentary film written and directed by Jean Lemire and Thierry Piantanida, as well as co-produced and co-narrated by Jean Lemire, made to foster awareness of global warming as seriously jeopardizing a fragile Arctic ecosystem, the first installment of the documentary series Mission Arctique (Arctic Mission), encompassing a five-month 2002 scientific expedition aboard the Sedna IV on a voyage from Montreal to Vancouver through the Northwest Passage, with the "beauty and fragility" of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago on full display. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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