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Comment by Yewfire

Ice Cutter counters the naval threat Icy Water. Its blueprint is dropped by Cindral the Wildfire.

Ice Cutter can be acquired 3 ways:

Automatically, as the native trait of a new or upgraded rare or epic ship,
Looted, from a mission that has a ship with the Gnomish Crew / Troll Crew buff, or
Purchased, from Salty Jorren / Kronk Rustspark after it has been unlocked by learning the blueprint.

Additional traits: There are 7 Tanaan Jungle bosses who are guaranteed to drop specific Equipment Blueprints needed for the achievement Naval Mechanics.

Macro code for Tomtom users:
/way Tanaan Jungle 35.4 46.8 Belgork - Bilge Pump (Counters: Stormy Weather)
/way Tanaan Jungle 37.5 76.0 Captain Ironbeard (cave entrance) - Ghostly Spyglass (Counters: Cursed Crew)
/way Tanaan Jungle 44.6 37.8 Cindral the Wildfire - Ice Cutter (Counters: Icy Water)
/way Tanaan Jungle 45.8 47.0 Felsmith Damorka - Felsmoke Launcher (Counters: First Strike)
/way Tanaan Jungle 38.0 30.0 Savage Whale Shark - Trained Shark Tank (Counters: Minelayer)
/way Tanaan Jungle 60.2 21.0 Xanzith the Everlasting - High Intensity Fog Lights (Counters: Dense Fog)
/way Tanaan Jungle 37.0 33.0 Zoug the Heavy - True Iron Rudder (Counters: Evasive)
Additionally:

All rare creatures and NPCs in Tanaan now have a chance to drop a number of equipment blueprints for ships.
Source: Patch 6.2 Hotfixes: July 27

Protip 1: I use Macro Toolkit to avoid having to split macros into smaller parts. There are other addons that also allow this.

Protip 2: Want an easy way to reset your Tomtom arrow to the nearest boss on the list? Just type
/cway and voila! *

Note: An 8th boss, Iron Reaver, (second boss in Hellfire Citadel) drops Equipment Blueprint: Gyroscopic Internal Stabilizer which counters Chaotic Whirlpools. The blueprint drops on all levels of raid difficulty.

Note 2: What about the rest of them? Only 3 other blueprints are available in 6.2.0. They come from various sources. Equipment Blueprint: Blast Furnace (Blast Furnace for Swift), is a quest item. Equipment Blueprint: Unsinkable (Unsinkable) and Equipment Blueprint: Tuskarr Fishing Net (Tuskarr Fishing Net) are vendor rep items.

The blueprints for Ammo Reserves, Automated Sky Scanner, Sonic Amplification Field, Q-43 Noisemaker Mines, & Extra Quarters are not obtainable and are no longer required for the achievement.
*Source: Patch 6.2 Hotfixes: July 27 - July 29

However, each of these 5 pieces of equipment has a chance to be provided automatically when upgrading or building new ships.

* Credit to Skeeve2010 for this improved Tomtom code suggestion.

Comment by yzq85

Excluding XP missions, this threat is found in 6 blockade missions (4 in Barrier Seas, 2 in Zangar Sea; Alliance commanders might want to take note) and 5 treasure missions. All are for Baleful tokens, and meant for Alliance commanders, as all of them are in the Zangar Sea quadrant.

Comment by ScottAllen11

Horde players do not need to counter Icy Water because nearly all missions requiring this counter are Alliance missions. This makes both Orc Crew and Ice Cutter essentially useless to Horde players. You may want to recommission any ship with Orc Crew and replace Ice Cutter at first opportunity.

Comment by Yewfire

Patch 6.2.2 update:

As of 09/01/2015, Blueprints are now learned account-wide*.

Source: https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/639942093520027649

* Except for the blueprints that require reputation (Unsinkable & Tuskarr Fishing Net), any of the blueprints that you have learned on your alts will be unlocked at Salty Jorren / Kronk Rustspark once you have completed A True Naval Commander / A True Naval Commander.

Thank you Blizz!

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