"He would make a big funny loop off the usual route and we knew it was time to start locking down on him, " she said.

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This route around the top of Canada and Alaska has killed hundreds of sailors and explorers for centuries, locking their ships in ice, starving them, freezing them, driving them insane and causing survivors to eat each other.

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