Re: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million sq
Except that you are wrong as usual. The chinese ship and the oceanographic ship ended up getting free on their own.
Do you really think the climate scientists were driving the boat?
barfo
LOL. You are the one who argues the wrong side of everything.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/04/world/antarctica-ships-stuck/index.html
(CNN) -- At the request of the Australian, Russian and Chinese governments, the U.S. Coast Guard is stepping up to help break up ice off Antarctica that has ensnared a pair of ships.
The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star had been heading to that area anyway, having left its home port of Seattle early last month to eventually break through sea ice and refuel the U.S. Antarctic Program's McMurdo Station on Ross Island.
Now the icebreaker is retooling to help the Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy and China's Xue Long due to "sufficient concern that the vessels may not be able to free themselves from the ice," the Coast Guard said Saturday in a statement.
-- But yes, the ships did end up breaking free after two weeks of being stuck).
As far as the boat and where it was driven...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Shokalskiy
MV Akademik Shokalskiy (Russian: Академик Шокальский) is an Akademik Shuleykin-class ice-strengthened ship, built in Finland in 1982 and originally used for oceanographic research.[9] In 1998 she was fully refurbished to serve as a research ship for Arctic and Antarctic work; she is used also for expedition cruising.[7] She is named after the Russian oceanographer Yuly Shokalsky.[10]
For two weeks from 25 December 2013 Akademik Shokalskiy was trapped in thick ice in Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, while operating an expedition for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014. The scientists and passengers were evacuated on 2 January.[11]
-- The ice was clearly much worse than they expected or they wouldn't have gotten stuck. Duh.
