Swedish Icebreaker Oden Deploys Boats

The Icebreaker Oden reached the North Pole on August 16, 2025, as a part of the Canada-Sweden Arctic Ocean 2025 expedition. After mooring the boat to the ice, they deployed 450 boats from 13 institutions and an ice ball buoy. The boats were decorated by kids from several USA schools, as well as by Marine Biology students from Gullmarsgymnasiet in Sweden and the crew and scientific team at the Oden. The deployment was a success, and the buoy (0147) is already recording at the North Pole!

You can track the Oden here.

USA Schools’ Boats that Were Deployed:

• CHESPAX/Calvert County Public Schools, Prince Frederick, Maryland

• Richard O. Jacobson Technical High School, Seminole, Florida

• Onondaga Nation School, Nedrow, New York

• Environmental Charter Middle School - Inglewood; Leuzinger High School, Redando Beach, California 

• San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, California

• Ozark High School, Ozark Arkansas

• Shaler Area Elementary School, Glenshaw Pennsylvania

• Mt. Hope Nanjemoy, Nanjemoy, Maryland

• Virtual Distance Learning, Leesburg, Virginia

• Polar Science Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

• Walking Mountains, Avon, Colorado

• Glen Hills Middle School, Glendale, Wisconsin