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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Re:LOL by OzPeter · 2014-01-02 03:33 · Score: 5, Informative

So I was watching this whole thing on the news and they never mentioned once that this expedition was meant to show the melting ice and such in hopes of showing the effects of global warming on the icepack.
I'd suggest that you change the news outlets that you read/watch. Plenty of places reported the aim of the scientific experiments.

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

...took Xue Long to rescue them.