I wish they had been environmentally consistent and insisted on rowing back to Argentina. Think of all the carbon wasted rescuing these morons and bringing them back to civilization.
By the way, notice the eco-tourists’ ship has a big red star on top. Coincidence? I doubt it.
A poster on the newspaper’s blog site wrote this:
Ships Aren’t ‘Eco’
[-] wrote on Nov 29, 2007 4:49 PM:
Remember how some folks were against allowing Mexican trucks cross the border, due to questions on whether those trucks were as well maintained and therefore as safe as US trucks? It’s kind of the same thing with ships. If you have a leaky, aging rustbucket, you just register it in some country with easy regulations (like Liberia)—then you’re free to sail it wherever you want. Such as to Antarctica. The MS Explorer was built almost 20 years ago as a reasearch vessel for the Soviet Union, and has had five changes of ownership since then. The website for the ship’s latest owners describes it as quite a luxurious ship, but doesn’t say where the ship is registered.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/11/30/news/top_stories/1_00_5311_28_07.txt
I noticed how many disasters were befalling that newly married couple. I would NOT want them as my neighbors; a tornado would hit right after the moved in.
Wouldn’t it be more enviromentally friendly just to let them freeze to death or to drown and then become part of the food chain?