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Ice blasting is the use of explosives to break up ice in rivers, greatly aiding navigation systems.
This is done during the spring when snow is melting and river ice is breaking up. There is always a chance that the ice flows could collide creating an ice jam creating a dam and blocking the river. The river, filled with melt water, will quickly flood and often cause damage nearby settlements. Thus in most northern areas governments quickly act to break up the ice jams before they can do much damage. This is most easily done with explosives. These explosives may be planted from the shore, or in some cases by helicopter. In the large rivers of the Siberia the Russian airforce is sometimes called in to bomb ice jams.

Some districts, where flooding is especially common, do preemptive ice blasting. The city of Ottawa, Canada, for instance, blasts the Rideau River each spring to break up the ice.

Ice blasting has a number of disadvantages. It is expensive and dangerous requiring highly skilled explosives experts. When blasting is occurring the public must be warned to keep their distance. The blasting has negative environmental consequences. Fish and other river creatures are inevitably killed and the river bottom is scarred.

Blue ice may refer to:

• Blue ice (glacial), created by glaciers
• Blue ice (aircraft), formed by leaky aircraft waste tanks
• Blue Ice (video game), a PC video game from Psygnosis
• Blue Ice (film), a 1992 film starring Michael Caine
• Blue Ice (ice pack), manufactured by Rubbermaid

Ice Box may refer to the following:

• An icehouse or icebox.
• Ice Box (song), A song by Omarion.
• Ice Box (arena), an arena in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• The Ice Box, a popular ice-skating rink near Scranton, Pennsylvania.
• Ice Box (magazine), a literary magazine produced by the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
• The ICEBOX (newspaper), a student newspaper published by Hugh McRoberts Secondary School.
• Icebox.com an internet company

Ice Box may refer to the following:

• An icehouse or icebox.
  
• Ice Box (song), A song by Omarion.
• Ice Box (arena), an arena in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• The Ice Box, a popular ice-skating rink near Scranton, Pennsylvania.
• Ice Box (magazine), a literary magazine produced by the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
• The ICEBOX (newspaper), a student newspaper published by Hugh McRoberts Secondary School.
• Icebox.com an internet company

Hempstead Lake State Park is a state park located in West Hempstead, Nassau County, New York in the United States. The park is one of three state parks located within the Town of Hempstead. There is a quick-access entrance at exit 18 from the Southern State Parkway.

The park contains three ponds for fishing and is stocked with several varieties. Wooded picnic areas provide shade.

The park offers picnic tables with pavilions, tennis courts, a playground, playing fields, recreation programs, hiking, biking, a bridle path, fishing, ice fishing, ice skating, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, and a boat launch.

Ice cream cake is either ice cream in the shape of a cake or ice cream and cake layered together to make a single form. The idea of ice cream cake came from desserts composed of cream and cookies or cake called trifles, which first turned up in the Renaissance. Ice cream cake can be used for birthday cakes.

Victorians made desserts called bombes, which consisted of ice cream and fruit in fancy molds. Sometimes these desserts were lined with cake or biscuits. Ice cream cake recipes dating to the 1870s have also been found.

Today, ice cream cakes are made in many ice cream stores and in many different varieties, including tin roof pie.

The Agulhas Bank is known as the best fishing ground in South Africa. It is located off Cape Agulhas.

It is the ocean region where the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean meet. This convergence leads to treacherous sailing conditions, and also fuels the nutrient cycle for marine life.

An ice stream is a region of an ice sheet that moves significantly faster than the surrounding ice. Ice streams are significant features of the Antarctic where they account for 10% of the volume of the ice. They are up to 50 km wide and 2 km thick. They stretch for hundreds of kilometres and account for most of the ice leaving the ice sheet, and entering the ice shelf.

The speed of the ice in the ice stream can be 1,000 meters per year, an order of magnitude faster than the surrounding ice. The shear forces at the edge of the ice stream causes deformation and recrystallization of the ice from hard glacial ice to a softer and more brittle form. Crevasses form particularly around the shear margins.

The causes of ice streams vary, though most are associated with sub-ice water streams, which lubricate the ice flow. The type of bedrock also is significant. Soft, plastic sediments result in the fastest flow.

Evans Ice Stream () is a large ice stream draining from Ellsworth Land, between Cape Zumberge and Fowler Ice Rise, into the western part of Ronne Ice Shelf. The feature was recorded on February 5, 1974 in Landsat imagery. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Stanley Evans, British physicist who, starting in 1961, developed apparatus for radio echo sounding of icecaps and glaciers from aircraft; he carried out upper atmosphere research at Brunt Ice Shelf, 1956-57.

Ice blink is the name given to a white light seen on the horizon, especially on the underside of low clouds, due to reflection from a field of ice immediately beyond.

The Ice Blink was used by both the Inuit and explorers looking for the Northwest Passage to help them navigate safely.

References

http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-ice-blink.htm

Jacques Aymar-Vernay (17th century) was a stonemason from the village of Saint Marcellin in Dauphiné, France, who reintroduced dowsing with a divining rod into popular usage in Europe. He claimed to have discovered springs and treasures hiding in the earth using his rod, and even tracked down criminals using it. According to some accounts, when he neared the scene of a murder using divining rod, he would break into a sweat, shudder, and in some instances, even faint.

Ice IX is a metastable form of solid water that exists at temperatures below 140K and pressures between 200 and 400 MPa. It has a tetragonal crystal lattice and a density of 1.16 g/cm³, slightly higher than ordinary ice.

Ordinary water ice is known as Ice I_h (in the Bridgman nomenclature). Different types of ice, from ice-II to ice-XII, have been created in the laboratory at different temperatures and pressures.

Ice IX is not to be confused with “Ice-nine”, a fictional discovery in the novel Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.

In a piston engine, a piston rod joins a piston to a connecting rod.

Many internal combustion engines, and in particular all current automobile engines, do not have true piston rods, and the term piston rod is often used as a synonym for connecting rod in the context of these engines.

All engines with crossheads do have true piston rods. These include most steam locomotives and large marine diesel engines.

World Fishing Exhibition is an exhibition dedicated to the fishing industry that celebrates every 6 years. By now all the editions the World Fishing Exhibition have taken place in Vigo. First exhibition was in 1973. Last one took place in 2003 at IFEVI and received 600.000 visitors.

Jacques Aymar-Vernay (17th century) was a stonemason from the village of Saint Marcellin in Dauphiné, France, who reintroduced dowsing with a divining rod into popular usage in Europe. He claimed to have discovered springs and treasures hiding in the earth using his rod, and even tracked down criminals using it. According to some accounts, when he neared the scene of a murder using divining rod, he would break into a sweat, shudder, and in some instances, even faint.