Canadian teen survives Arctic ice floe, polar bearsCanadian air force paratroopers on Monday rescued a teenager adrift overnight on an Arctic ice floe and threatened by polar bears, an official told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. . The 17-year-old boy and an older friend had been hunting near Coral Harbor, Nunavut when they became separated and lost on Sunday. The teen, who was not immediately identified, was rescued Monday after a night in frigid temperatures with two polar bears on an ice floe that drifted into the Arctic Ocean Arctic Ocean, the smallest ocean, c.5,400,000 sq mi (13,986,000 sq km), located entirely within the Arctic Circle and occupying the region around the North Pole. , said Captain Michael Young. "This young man had quite a journey," Young said by telephone from the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Canadian Forces Base A Canadian Forces Base or CFB (French Base des forces canadiennes or BFC) refers to a military installation of the Canadian Forces. For a facility to qualify as a Canadian Forces Base, it must station one or more major units (eg. Trenton, in Ontario. "It was cold and dark," he told AFP. "And there was apparently a couple of polar bears on the ice floe with him too." Rescuers said they found the teen's older friend wandering along the shores of Southampton Island Southampton Island, c.15,700 sq mi (40,700 sq km), Nunavut Territory, Canada, at the entrance to Hudson Bay. It is separated from the mainland by Ross Welcome Sound and Frozen Strait. With lowlands in the west, the tundra-covered island rises to c. at the mouth of Hudson Bay. Search and rescue teams spotted the teen on the ice floe by air late Sunday, but lost him after sundown. After an exhaustive overnight search, the rescuers found him on Monday 45 kilometers (28 miles) from his previous location. Once located, two paratroopers jumped from a C-130 Hercules transport plane onto a larger ice floe nearby. They swam and crawled over to the boy, then waited with him until a rescue boat came to pick them up. Young said that the teen and his friend were being treated for mild hypothermia hypothermia Abnormally low body temperature, with slowing of physiological activity. It is artificially induced (usually with ice baths) for certain surgical procedures and cancer treatments. and frostbite frostbite (chilblains), injury to the tissue caused by exposure to cold, usually affecting the extremities of the body, such as the hands, feet, ears, or nose. Extreme cold causes the small blood vessels in the extremities to constrict. at a nursing station in Coral Harbor, on Southampton Island. 
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