Posted on 01/02/2014 7:23:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
After 10 days stranded far from home, all 52 passengers from a ship stuck in Antarctic ice have now been transferred by helicopter to an Australian icebreaker.
"It's 100% we're off! A huge thanks to all," tweeted Chris Turney, an Australian professor among the group of scientists, journalists and tourists marooned on the ship.
A helicopter from a nearby Chinese icebreaker ferried passengers Thursday to the Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis.
The rescue is the latest chapter in a saga that began Christmas Eve after the Russian-flagged MV Akademik Shokalskiy got stuck in unusually thick ice.
Officials abandoned a succession of other rescue attempts in recent days because of the treacherous conditions in the region.
Australian authorities had said a plan involving the helicopter and a barge was put on hold because of shifting ice conditions.
But the new approach, which skipped the use of the barge, got under way later in the day. Turney posted videos showing the helicopter arriving on a makeshift helipad on the ice near the trapped ship and taking off into the crisp blue sky.
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How’s that Global Warmin’ job workin’ out for ya?;)
Ice breakers harm ice by reducing its size!
The eco-horror!
Bad eco-warrirors! Bad! Bad!
I think it’s funny that, it’s summer in Antarctica. Seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere. And it was during summer that tney encountered all of this ice. Seems strange. But the media has not reported how unusual this ice is considering it’s summer there.
Let's hear the spin ...
THIS'LL be good ...
Wonder if any of them became deniers?
Pray America is Waking
They already have begun... today’s communist agenda has a world wide op-ed on how 2013 was the hottest year ever recorded and how their computer models have been too conservative and we are all going to hard-boil unless we start killing off populations and live back in the 10th century.
5th or 6th paragraph. The lie must not be broken by the false CNN.
All the while their Climate Propaganda Leader enjoys the warm Hawaiian sun.
“... got stuck in unusually thick ice.”
and it’s summer time down there - think about how thick the ice will be when winter comes.
can we say “ice age??”
The climate “scientist” has already spun it. In brief, global warming accelerated the pack ice break-up, producing over-abundant floes that coalesced and trapped their ship. So they were trapped in sea ice by global warming. Q.E.D.
Here’s news from the Washington Post just 3 months ago:
TITLE: Antarctic sea ice hit 35-year record high Saturday
Apparently the mods at CNN didn’t care for my post.
This one:
Oh goodie, they are free at last to come back to civilization to accept their Darwin Awards like good jello brained tards.
Prolly cause it was mean spirited. LOL
Damn. Another fun story destroyed by man’s humanity to his fellow man.
Stranded Antarctic passengers evacuated to freedom (’Tards “rescued”)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3107497/posts
Not only do the Global Warming (aka Climate Change) activists not get it, but none of the other environmentalists or animal rights do either. See the Sea Shepherd (”Whale Wars”). These morons are a sea going menage to themselves and to the whalers.
There! Fixed it!!!!
Thank goodness they were saved. After all the only reason they were there was to save us!
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