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For the first time since 2008, sailors in the Vendée Globe around-the-world solo sailboat race on Jan. 2 encountered an iceberg in the middle of the Pacific ocean. For many days leading up to the start of the new year, sailors had been informed by race management that they were in an ice zone in the Pacific. Two icebergs were spotted by satellite outside the Antarctic Exclusion Zone and their position put them closer to the course the sailors in the race were on. “My radar alarm went off: I had an echo four miles ahead,” Sébastien Marsset, skipper of…