00:00Chipping away at ice on ships in temperatures that get to negative 58 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:07It's just another day at the office for these workers in Russia's Far East.
00:12See, they're freezing out. It's back-breaking work maintaining ships during Siberian winter.
00:18Reuters describes the job as requiring both toughness and precision.
00:22Workers can't cut the ice too quickly and break through to the water below.
00:26If they do, the carved dugout can be submerged and the work is lost.
00:31The toughness the job requires is both physical and mental.
00:35Worker Artiem Kovalec tells Reuters,
00:38You feel it's too cold to work, you want to go home to eat and relax, so you have to get a grip on yourself.
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