Open Lead after a Heave
I was out yesterday, and I am guessing that is north of Brownlow's. We saw lots of "wet white ice" in the vicinity of the pressure ridge. Given the minimal thickness in the photo, I hate to say I suspected open leads from the shifting sheets of ice. If this was flood ice that refreezes, you would see a deep blue color, as opposed to the whitish colour you see here in the picture. The pressure ridge itself had 3 foot thick ice piled about 8 feet tall right at the point north of Brownlow's, and it was very blue ice, except on either side where the sheet had broke free from the horizontal ice, after reaching considerable height.
Glad to see no one was hurt. If the motor was still running when the airbox submerged, the block is toast from the compression of the "watered" cylinder on the upstroke.
Drewski
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