Captain Obvious already exists Lick.
The simple fact is, that people going back several years have already claimed that route was open and even gone so far as to claim that you could sail to the actual North Pole in the summer, only to find themselves trapped in Ice and in need of rescue. In addition, this would be the first time such a route was open, you just to do a little digging. U.S. shipbuilders during WWII were delivering Lend-Lease ships to Russia via that route for a brief period.