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Maersk did send the Venta Maersk via that route in 2018, but it might still be a bit early in the year for people to get interested in it, unless the situation drags on a bit longer.On episode 8 of 'The Terror.' What were they thinking of trying for that Northwest Passage ? Even today with the ice in full retreat, I wouldn't fancy taking a ship up that way. This is not a place people are meant to be.
I've been in the Arctic, only in midsummer, and nowhere near as far North as these guys went in wooden sailing ships with feeble engines. It does seem like a Stephen King story, except those voyages at least did occur. Dramatic licence or not, it's a horror story.
PS Oops, had to correct Northeast Passage to Northwest Passage. I should know better. There is a Northeast Passage, along the North coast of Russia. You might get a nuke down your throat trying for it.