Gabriel Perurena

9/22/2014
Icebreaker
The Icebreaker Icebreaker

The year is 1982. You are onboard the NS Sibir, a 21,000 ton nuclear-powered Arktika-
class icebreaker, steaming somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. Your exact position is a state
secret (traitors will be sent to the gulag). Your ship has just received word that General Secretary
Leonid Brezhnev has passed away and been replaced by Yuri Andropov. Taking advantage of
the situation, your nuclear plant engineers attempted to defect, but were shot by your boats
political officer (who also perished in the firefight).

As a result, your captain has decided to shut down the reactor and radio Moscow for help, rather
than continue on with a nuclear power plant no one on board knows how to operate. You and
Your group must now survive onboard your ship in the Arctic winter, without power, until help
arrives.

1. What do you do? What are your skills? How should your group divide responsibility? How
can you help your group survive?

2. One of you is the Captain. After getting to know each other, decide who the captain is.

3. One of you is a CIA spy. Who is it?

Purpose:

The purpose of this exercise is to get to know each other better by discussing any odd skills or
life experiences you might have. Hopefully, you will get to know about the background,
childhood, and favorite hobbies of your group.

Once conversation gets going, you will probably have a good sense of the problem-solving and
leadership qualities of those in your group. This should help you decide the Captain.

The spy decision should truly break the ice!