CO2-hysteric film director gets stuck in ice again

Imprisoned in the ice, passengers opt to party

A cruise ship stuck for 30 hours in the ice of the St. Lawrence River was more Love Boat than Titanic this week as travellers took advantage of their isolation to party and learn.
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Participants pay $1,600 for the privilege of skiing an average of 45 kilometres a day and eating and sleeping on the luxury liner. Volunteer experts drop in to put on some 50 presentations on subjects ranging from Antarctic exploration to studies of the human mind.
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Ocean explorer Jean Lemire told a gripping tale of his perilous exploration of Antarctica, where his own ship and crew intentionally got stuck in the ice for the winter.
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Léonard Arseneau, a spokesman for CTMA Group, said weeks of below-normal temperatures have created unusually thick ice for January.

May '08: Hot Docs Interview – Jean Lemire talks about The Last Continent

The Last Continent is a film about how the crew of a year-long scientific expedition to Antarctica cope with the dangerous affects of global climate change on the landscape. It was part of the Hot Docs Documentary film festival in Toronto.

Climate change, of course, has been a hot topic in recent years thanks in no small part to An Inconvenient Truth in which former US Vice-President Al Gore made the scientific case for the dangers of global warning. The intent of this documentary, according to Last Continent’s director Jean Lemire, was to make the focus of the story on the human adventure, rather than science heavy.