Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 2, 2014 @03:11AM from the who-pays-for-all-that-rescuing? dept.

The BBC reports (with video) that all aboard the ice-trapped MV Akademik Shokalskiy have been rescued by helicopter, after more than one icebreaker attempt to reach the vessel directly proved too challenging. Also at the New York Times, which reports "The twin-rotored helicopter, based on a Chinese icebreaker, the Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, flew several sorties across miles of packed ice to pluck scientists, tourists and journalists from a makeshift landing zone next to the marooned MV Akademik Shokalskiy research vessel."

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The Chinese... by torsmo · 2014-01-02 03:46 · Score: 5, Funny

...took Xue Long to rescue them.
Re:Global warming. by TWiTfan · 2014-01-02 03:52 · Score: 1, Funny

Well, at least they were able to show the world conclusively that the antarctic ice is, in fact, disappearing.

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