Will polar bears make it back to shore?

By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Published: 12:40PM GMT 02 March 2010

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A frigid bear pup is comforted by the mom as they deposit miles from seaside on a fast timorous ice floe Photo: Eric Lefranc / Solent

The span became stuck after rock climbing onto the cube of ice during a speed to track seals. Soon the ice floe shrank down to only a couple of yards and fast drifted down the Olga Strait of Svalbard in Norway.

But nonetheless the bears see frightened, huddled together in the centre of the iceberg, experts likely that the flexible swimmers will be equates to to get safely behind to shore.

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Images of frigid bears stuck out at sea are mostly used to prominence the affect of tellurian warming on the North Pole.

Sea ice has retreated dramatically in the past decade and a little scientists envision that the Arctic could be mostly ice free during the summer in the subsequent twenty years.

Eric Lefranc, 40, who took the sketch whilst cruising in the area, doubted the pup would survive.

"If she was equates to to leave her baby, the mom would probably have survived but the guide was utterly desperate about the presence of the cub, who probably drowned," he said.

"Some of the members on the outing were in despair. They longed for to take the bears with us and move them to the nearest land that was patently impossible."

However Chris Packham, the BBC presenter of Springwatch and animal expert, pronounced frigid bears have blending to such conditions.

"Being so isolated, their predestine might see cursed but I think there will have been a happy ending," he said.

"Polar Bears have four-inch thick weep to keep them warm, big paws that action as flippers and waterproof hair that equates to they are incredibly well matched to the water.

"An adult can float up to 50 miles at five or 6 miles per hour so the silent here should have no difficulty completing the twelve miles back.

"The pup will onslaught some-more and positively faces an burdensome float but I suppose it will have been OK if they paced the journey."