Answer: True.
Explanation: Two icebreaker ship polarstern from Germany and the Akademik fedoeov from Russia sailed on a mission towards central Arctic. Their tasks were to find an ice floe so strong and thick it would ultimately freeze the polarstern, entrapping the ship for a whole year within the ice.
There is the danger of been attack by polar bears, because polar bears lives in the Arctic. And there is also the risk of the ship been crushed by frozen ice.