'Big cracks' appearing in ice around ship stranded in Antarctica

ABC News Australia ^ | 12/29/2013 | Staff Writers

[fso301]

Reports from on board a Russian-flagged ship that has been stranded in Antarctica since Christmas Eve have suggested the ice is cracking around them.

The Akademik Shokalskiy had been retracing Sir Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expedition and conducting scientific research when sea ice closed in about 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart.

The ship has 74 people on board, including scientists, crew members and paying passengers.

A Chinese icebreaker attempted to reach the icebound ship on Friday but failed.

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[fso301]

My wife said she'd love to be aboard the Akademik Shokalskiy listening to the shaman explain how everything they are experiencing is due to global warming.

[Young Werther]

Omigod its a CRACKEN. Sheldon calling to Leonard!

[JRandomFreeper]

LOL! I clicked on this thread to say it might be a Kracken.

/johnny

[1rudeboy]

...had been retracing Sir Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expedition....

Too lazy to look it up myself, sorry--but did Mawson survive?

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

Its from all that heat being generated from the humans aboard that ship. Only explanation possible per Al Gore.

[Recompennation]

The cracks forming around the ship are called the prism effect. The force of the ice on an object the shop becomes multiplied by slippage planes radiating put from the object effectively making the ice performike a very large pin vice.
Ship crushing force that Shackleton saw.

[Blood of Tyrants]

And the willing dupes nod their heads solemnly.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

In the Antarctic, *anything* different is cause for concern. Big cracks in the ice may indicate contraction, or expansion, and either one might be very bad news to a ship.

[Sivad]

” ‘Big cracks’ appearing in ice around ship stranded in
Antarctica”

Hmmm....a Sheila Jackson Lee sighting?

[Mmogamer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawson

[fso301]

The cracks forming around the ship are called the prism effect.

Interesting. Thanks.

[Rannug]

This sort of reminds me of the dumba$$es who try to drive thru flooding waters.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Obama waved his mighty hand, “In the name of of Father Gore; let my people BE FREE”

[gusopol3]

Any thoughts?

[Standing Wolf]

...the willing dupes nod their heads solemnly.

Even that much activity strains their feeble brains.

[Mmogamer]

Wow just finished the article, Mawson was s tough as any Antarctic explorer I’ve read about.

[353FMG]

>’Big cracks’ appearing in ice around ship stranded in Antarctica<

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See, see, I told you so — global warming is for real.

[rktman]

Yeah, with all that melting ice (uh, water) and freezing water (uh, ice) it must be quite the harrowing experience.

[GeronL]

good news or bad news?

we will know soon enough

[C210N]

Chinese helicopter flying over their location....

I wonder if anybody was noticing the "Big Cracks" filmed by the chopper... and noticed that the chopper seemed to "follow" the cracks wherever it went... or the cracks followed wherever the chopper went...