[Third Person]

What a joke.

[dfwgator]

And then who is going to rescue the Coast Guard ship?

[RushingWater]

Nothing in article about the purpose of the mission being to study global warming? It was only to clear a channel?

[dforest]

This is the kind of crap you get when a bunch of libtards set out to prove something.

They all should have to pay the costs for all this stuff.

[skinkinthegrass]

!

[jaz.357]

We just wanted to see the polar bears drowning! Now are trip is ruined!

Charge ALGORE for the USCG! He has BILLIONS because of this hoax!

[Nachoman]

Why don’t they give the Sea Shepards a bunch of picks and axes and send them down there?

[Delta 21]

Back and Ram Bump.

Callin’ in the pros.

[naturalman1975]

It is a bit of a joke, yes - this situation has been created by the arrogance of certain scientists in not properly anticipating the dangers of their mission. But for perspective - what has happened here, is we have a situation where there is a vessel in distress that has asked for help. It is the responsibility of all seaman in a position to provide assistance to do so - that's a fundamental law of the sea. The location of the problem puts it in the area that Australia takes responsibility for coordinating sea rescue in, so AMSA has the lead in that regard. It will look for all vessels either in the area, going to the area, or nearby, that could be useful in rendering assistance and will ask them for help. The US is about to send one of its icebreakers into the area, so a request for US assistance is basically straightforward. We've previous asked for assistance (and received it) from Chinese and French icebreakers in the area, and we've despatched our own.

Post mortems on these rescues occur after lives have been saved, and ships have been saved - and at that point, you may well say "You were an idiot to get yourself into this situation". But any sailor knows that if you get the call for help, and you can help, you have to do what you can - because that helps make sure that when you need to ask, somebody might come to help you.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Third Person.

• IPCC silently slashes its global warming predictions in the AR5 final draft

[trebb]

The Polar Star is able to continuously break ice up to 1.8 metres (6ft) while travelling at three (3) knots and can break ice over six (21ft) metres thick.

That is some awesome power...4" of ice will support a car on a lake/pond.