"...were prepared to don body suits and swim through areas where polar ice has melted"
Seams they should have brought warmer clothes instead of swim suits.
Kurt >http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_sc/polar_trek_1 > >"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."