Icy season: So far 673 icebergs counted in shipping lanes off Newfoundland
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Newfoundland’s spectacular iceberg-viewing season continues to mean major hazards in North Atlantic shipping lanes.
About 673 icebergs have drifted into North Atlantic shipping lanes off the island’s east coast so far this year, said Gabrielle McGrath, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard International Ice Patrol.
That’s almost as many as the 687 counted during the whole ice season last year, ending in late September.
“There’s definitely quite a lot of icebergs still up to the north,” McGrath said Friday from her home base in New London, Conn., after surveillance flights this week over the stretch known as Iceberg Alley.