Chinese ship that helped with rescue now stuck in Antarctica ice

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Washington Times:

Troubles for Antarctica ship passengers and crew just won’t quit. Now that the 52 passengers aboard a Russian research ship stuck in the ice for a week have been airlifted off that vessel, the Chinese ice-breaker that aided with the rescue is now trapped.

 

So the Australian ice-breaker that now holds the rescued passengers — they were carried by helicopter from the Russian ship to the Australian craft — is hanging around, waiting to see if it will be called on to help dislodge the Chinese vessel, Xue Long.

 

“Xue Long notified [the Australian Maritime Safety Authority] that it has concerns about their ability to move through heavy ice in the area,” said an AMSA spokesperson, in a statement reported by BBC. “[The Chinese ship] will attempt to maneuver through the ice when tidal conditions are most suitable during the early hours of 4 January.”

 

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The rest of Chris Turneys life mapped out

1/3/13

 

Organiser and leader of the failed Spirit of Mawson voyage, Chris Turney, is in a pickle. Having charged a significant fee for other passengers, of up to $7500 per person for the first leg and $18,900 per person for the second leg, Turney has become the poster boy for the next episode of Climategate. This fool has just provided further evidence of the paucity of science in the anthropogenic global warming industry.

 

But Turneys promise to fully offset the CO2 emissions from the AAE should keep him planting New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) for the remainder of his life. Turney has promised

 

 

 

A total of 800 kauri trees will be planted which during the first 50 years of their life will offset more than the total carbon used to fuel the AAE.

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$18,900 per person for the second leg..

 

"Never Give A Sucker An Even Break"

WC Fields

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U.S. Coast Guard to the Rescue

 

This was probably inevitable: the climateers who tried to document global warming in Antarctica, only to have their vessel hopelessly stuck in a vast ice pack, have been ignominiously airlifted back home, but their ship, along with a Chinese vessel that tried to rescue them, are ice-bound and unable to free themselves. So the Australian and Chinese governments have asked the United States Coast Guard for help:

 

 

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star is responding to a Jan. 3rd request from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) to assist the Russian-Flagged Akademik Shokalskiy and Chinese-Flagged Xue Long that are reportedly ice-bound in the Antarctic. The Russian and Chinese Governments have also requested assistance from the United States.

 

The Polar Star will cut short its planned stop in Sydney to support the AMSAs request for assistance.

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