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Scientists train to dive beneath polar ice as climate change warms Arctic, Antarctica | News
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Scientists train to dive beneath polar ice as climate change warms Arctic, Antarctica | News

  • 2026-03-27

KILPISJÄRVI, Finland – As bubbles rippled across the frigid Finnish lake, diver Daan Jacobs emerged from a hole carved out of the thick, crackling ice.

The journey had taken him 8 meters (26 feet) beneath the surface, where sunlight filtered through the Arctic ice and fish swam around a rock formation. It’s a remote place few will ever see, especially in winter, when snow blankets the ice and temperatures on land approach minus 40 degrees in both Celsius and Fahrenheit.

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In this photo provided by Pata Degerman, participants in a Polar Scientific Diving class look into an ice hole as a diver descends beneath the surface in Kilpisjärvi, Finland, March 4, 2025.

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