What a joke.
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To: Third Person
And then who is going to rescue the Coast Guard ship?
46 posted on
01/04/2014 4:35:45 PM PST by
dfwgator
To: Third Person
Nothing in article about the purpose of the mission being to study global warming? It was only to clear a channel?
To: Third Person
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.
59 posted on
01/04/2014 5:38:28 PM PST by
dforest
To: Third Person
66 posted on
01/04/2014 6:19:44 PM PST by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
To: Third Person
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!
69 posted on
01/04/2014 6:25:31 PM PST by
jaz.357
(Contrary To Ordinary)
To: Third Person
Why don’t they give the Sea Shepards a bunch of picks and axes and send them down there?
73 posted on
01/04/2014 7:26:21 PM PST by
Nachoman
(Wisdom is learned, cynicism is earned.)
To: Third Person
Back and Ram Bump.
Callin’ in the pros.
74 posted on
01/04/2014 7:28:20 PM PST by
Delta 21
(If you like your freedom, you can keep your freedom. Period.)
To: Third Person
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.
79 posted on
01/04/2014 9:04:43 PM PST by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
81 posted on
01/04/2014 10:09:12 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: Third Person
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.
82 posted on
01/05/2014 5:13:21 AM PST by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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