The warm sun hung high in the sky, painting the endless blue ocean with occasional patches of floating ice.
The temperature was even colder than the previous days, having reached minus 10 degrees Celsius, and the sailors on the icebreaker ship had all changed into thick cotton clothes and worked with gloves on.
Marvin stood at the bow, holding a sextant, measuring their current position through the height of the horizon and the sun. To avoid being discovered by the Royal Navy, they had entered international waters and bypassed the Navy's defense line, at the cost of taking half a month to reach the edge of the Far Northern Sea Domain.
