Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, and a Polar bear all walk into a bar...

Another AMASE tradition is to dress up like Men in Black, and pose for pictures while holding rifles. This year, we got all gussied up and headed to shore. There were two zodiacs ferrying people to shore. The first zodiac hit the beach, and people began getting out, when Dave Blake in our zodiac, which was about 100 meters back, noticed a polar bear. We all started yelling our heads off and waving to get the attention of the shore party. They waved back. The bear noticed them, and started ambling over. When the bear was about 75 meters away, they finally noticed it, and jumped back in the boat. Morten snapped this picture as they motored away:
Not to be deterred, we landed on the other side of the fjord and had our pictures made.