Posted on 01/03/2014 11:14:29 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
A ship which was used to rescue by helicopter 52 people from a trapped Antarctic ship has now found itself in need of rescue – after it got stuck in heavy ice.
Having not moved for several days while preparing to airlift the passengers, the Chinese-owned Snow Dragon is now wedged in ice.
The ship was used as a launch pad to pick up the passengers on Thursday, after they had spent nine days stranded. Their ship, the Akademik Shokalskiy, became wedged in ice on Christmas Eve as it was heading towards Antarctica.
After a lengthy operation to ferry passengers from the Akademik Shokalskiy to the awaiting Australian ship, the Aurora Austrialis, by helicopter, the Snow Dragon was due to leave the area.
But less than 24 hours later, it too was stuck in ice.
"It will attempt to manoeuvre through the ice when tidal conditions are most suitable, during the early hours of 4 January 2014," said a statement from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, AMSA. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Now the rescuers will even need help.
Crew: Mo, Larry and Curly. (Schemp was smart and stayed home.)
This made me laugh out loud!
I blame global warming! /s
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! Thud.
This should be front page news,
The companies insuring these vessels must be thrilled about all this global warming.
I hope they keep a running total for all the fuel consumed in this global warming cartoon.
I’m enjoying this so much.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
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It is Summer there now.
I read that only one out of 42 posts on that ship noted the so called scientists were in anarctica to study effects of global warming when they got frozen in ice..
There was no meteorologists on board...so no way of checking weather or ice flows only climatologists to study ice melt patterns...the head guy Turney even had his wife and small kids along.
This was more of a photo op than a true science mission IMHO.
Freegards
LEX
...and this when it is summer down under...
Looks to me like a crowd of people who walk around every day — certain that they are smarter than everyone else.
That's all it is.
So the merry band of Global Warming Tourists leave a mess of 2 ships frozen in the ice behind them. Hey, it’s for Gaia.
This time.
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