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"There's a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road, that's where I'll always be.
Every stop I make, I make a new friend,
Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again... (Unless, of course, I'm stuck on a hunk of ice)"

Yes indeed, a plucky dog has had a lucky escape when a Polish boat rescued him from an ice floe that had carried him more than 60 miles up a river and out onto the icy waters of the Baltic Sea -- where temperatures can dip to -34C.

"My crew saw... a shape moving on the water and we immediately decided to get closer to check if it was a dog or maybe a seal relaxing on the ice," Jan Joachim, senior officer aboard the Baltica, told Reuters.

"As we got closer to the ice floe we saw that it was a dog struggling not to fall into the water."

Ship engineer Adam Buczynski managed to scoop the dog off the floe onto an inflatable dinghy and wrapped him in a blanket.

"He didn't even squeal. There was just fear in his big eyes," said Buczynski.

The dog was first seen on the ice floe some 60 miles inland but firemen were unable to rescue him. When the Baltica crew found him, he had already drifted 18 miles out to sea. The things he will have seen! (Ice).


Footage after the jump.