CFB Trenton personelle played an important role in a dramatic tale of survival for a teenage boy in the Arctic. The 17-year old was forced to shoot a polar bear after becoming trapped on an ice floe in the northern area of Hudson Bay. Jean-Pierre Sharp, a spokesman for the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre at C-F-B Trenton says military search and rescue experts parachuted onto a neighbouring ice floe to rescue the boy yesterday.
The boy was forced to shoot an adult polar bear in self-defence when it came too close. Two other bears, likely older cubs, remained with the carcass — even when rescuers parachuted in to rescue the boy.
