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Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Global warming. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, right.

    1. Re:Global warming. by i+kan+reed · · Score: 1, Troll

      No, that's stupid, like really stupid. There's nothing about these models that should be anywhere near that temporally localized.

  2. Re:The Antarctic successfully defends itself by TWiTfan · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would say that this incident mostly proves that these "scientists" are a bunch of media whores and drunks (seriously, these guys gotten more footage of themselves drinking and joking around onto TV lately than Russell Brand on a bender), with a captain who doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.

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