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In late 1942, Britain was desperate to win the ongoing Battle of
the Atlantic. German U-boats had sunk hundreds of Allied ships
containing millions of tons of cargo that was needed to continue
the war effort. Prime Minister Churchill had to find a solution to
the carnage or the Nazis would be victorious. With the support of
Churchill and Lord Louis Mountbatten, eccentric inventor and
amateur spy Geoffrey Pyke proposed a dramatic project to build
invincible ships of ice - massive, unsinkable aircraft carriers
that would roam the mid-Atlantic servicing fighter planes and
bombers on missions to protect shipping from predatory U-boat wolf
packs. This is the fascinating story of the rise and fall of
Project Habbakuk and how an outlandish inventor, the British Navy,
the National Research Council of Canada and a workforce of
conscientious objectors tested the bizarre concept in the Canadian
Rocky Mountains, far from the theatre of war.
It is said that the sparkle from Canadian diamonds mimics the
awesome and seductive radiance of the northern lights, and yet,
until 1991, no one thought diamonds could even be found in Canada.
No one except two geologists who went in search of diamonds and
found them on the Lac de Gras Barren Grounds at Point Lake near
Yellowknife in Canada's Arctic. The discovery by Chuck Fipke and
his partner, Dr Stu Blusson, caused great excitement in
international diamond circles. Today, Canada is the world's
third-largest producer, by value, of rough stones. Why? In contrast
to gems mined in Africa, Canada's stones are considered pure 'ice'
and they are also 'clean' - not tainted by bloodshed and war as
they are in such parts of the world as Sierra Leone and Angola. The
discovery of diamonds in Canada's Arctic is an amazing story of
perseverance in the face of immense odds. And the story has a very
happy ending.
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