Jacob Amundsen, a descendant of famed Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, buried one of 250 copies of a wristwatch he designed to withstand extreme conditions at the North Pole in 2004 in honor of his ancestor.
A piece of ice broke off at the North Pole and voyaged 3000 kilometers, almost 2000 miles, to the The Faeroes, an 18-island Danish territory, located halfway between Scotland and Iceland.
There, a little 11-year old boy from a village of 115 people, spotted a small black box with the box that Amundsen had buried...still working!
I guess, not only is there adventurer's blood in the Amundsens, but in their watches as well! What a trip.
Of course, the global warming alarmists think they know why the ice block broke off from the north pole, an oceanographer "with the Faeroese Fisheries Laboratory, said it was "very likely" that the wristwatch had drifted south with one of the chunks of ice that frequently break away at the North Pole and are carried off by the ocean currents."
The oceanographer went on to say "the ice breaking off at the North Pole was not related to global warming, as the phenomenon was first observed more than 100 years ago by Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen."
And, we are left to wonder that if it has been going on for 100 years, why haven't the coastal cities been flooded yet?
Go figure!
Meanwhile, the $12,500 price tag on the 249 watch copies just skyrocketed.
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