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Ships break free from ice off Antarctica

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UPDATED: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 20:33
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:03 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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Two ships broke free Tuesday from the Antarctic ice that had trapped them off the continent's coast.

Cracks in the ice allowed the Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy to escape the ice field where it had been stranded for two weeks, Australia's Maritime Safety Authority said.

The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, which had gotten stuck in the ice during an attempt to extract the Russian ship, broke free about an hour later, officials said.

The Akademik Shokalskiy had been trapped in unusually deep ice since Christmas Eve with scientists, journalists, tourists and crew members on board. A helicopter ferried the ship's 52 passengers to an Australian icebreaker last week.

"We continue to sail northward, changing courses and speed. The speed is 7 knots," the Russian ship's captain, Igor Kiselev, told the ITAR-TASS official news agency Tuesday.

The captain reported that his ship is now headed to New Zealand, the maritime authority said.

The Xue Long will remain on its original mission in the Antarctic, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/world/antarctica-ships-free/index.html?h
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Glad they're free and everybody's okay.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:58 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


So, in essence, the source of the original trouble got loose on its own, finally, without any of the subsequent ships that went to assist. Isn't there still one ship, maybe Japanese? still stuck?

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 3:15 PM

M52NICKERSON

DALEK!


The story said the Chinese icebreaker got loose about an hour later?

[troll]So this proves gobal warming, right. I mean that ice melted really fast and in the middle of January.[/troll]

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:33 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...





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