On August 16, former Hollywood stuntman Robert McDonald performed a record-breaking stunt. He floated a ship made of wooden ice cream sticks on a river that flows through the city of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. And the boat didn't sink!
McDonald built the 50-foot-long replica of a Viking ship with 15 million ice cream sticks and more than two tons of glue. The 13-ton cruiser is named Mjollnir (mil-ner), after the hammer of Thor, the Viking god of thunder.
In 2003, Captain Rob set a Guinness World Record when he built a model Viking ship with 370,000 ice cream sticks. He is the president of the Sea Heart Ship Foundation. The group's goal is to spread fun to kids in hospitals around the world. "I have a dream to show children they can do anything," he says. "If they can dream it, they can do it."