Alarming ice cracks spelled an early end to a Navy camp built on an Arctic ice floe north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the Navy said Monday.The camp was being used by U.S., British and Canadian researchers to monitor two U.S. attack submarines transiting under the ice.
Vice Adm. Michael Connor, the head of Naval Submarine Forces, called off the remainder of Ice Exercise 2014 after the ice under the temporary Ice Camp Nautilus began to show signs of instability. The Navy blamed large shifts in wind direction for the the cracks in the ice floe.
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