break free from Hudson Bay ice

A dozen killer whales, trapped and facing near-certain death in the frozen
expanse of Canada's Hudson Bay, broke free on Thursday morning, to the vast
relief of locals and many thousands monitoring their plight online.Pictures of
the whales clustered around a 10-foot hole in the ice that was their last source
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Source:
http://www.ezonearticle.com/2013/01/10/break-free-from-hudson-bay-ice/