From big-city Montreal to the Atlantic-facing Nova Scotia capital of Halifax, the 1, 346km Ocean service is an almost 24-hour trip.

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The whales, including mothers and their newborns, can also be spotted as they make the long trip back to the icy waters of the Southern Ocean between September and November.

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"You could conceivably mush a dog team 150 miles to the Pacific Ocean from our front yard and not see another soul on the entire trip!"

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If team Ocean AdVENTure is named as a finalist, then Karl, Kyle and Jon will receive a trip to Los Angeles where they will present their web pages at a world technology conference.

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Then the white barrels, the wooded hills on the far bank of the river, and beyond the hills the other side of Connecticut, the trip to the whaling ship at Mystic Seaport, somewhere out there Cape Cod, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa.

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If something happened along the way to mess up that trip say a critical database falls over in a critical datacenter or California falls into the Pacific Ocean then it would certainly disrupt its services.

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