Stuck Antarctic ship close to rescue
 

Russia, China, Australia, France...all co-operating to free a ship in danger of being crushed.

Restores a little of my faith in humanity :sunny:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25523952

Nobel action. :salute:

Snow Dragon....cool name for the ice breaking vessel.

It'd be cool if it were a Greanpeace ship that was first to come to the rescue :)

Busy whale chasing I guess.

Or most of the activists still in Russian prisons :)

:up:

At the risk of losing everything I have here at Subsim, moderator status and maybe even getting banned. I have to ask...

WTF are you talking about?

^ Ok i thought to know a bit about the german language, but i am afraid i cannot help you either .. :hmm2: :)

:o :hmmm: :haha: :huh: :har: :D :har:

I think I said the same thing, sort of, with a Stewie image not long ago.
:D

(I think some bogging is going on somewhere or a bad batch of Hamm's)

:yeah:

So you don't trust China's motives in getting involved in this? You could have just said so, and I wouldn't have said anything. I'm sure some here feel the same way. On the other hand the ship's crew may have acted without orders, trying to help fellow mariners. I don't care to guess one way or the other.

I bet that trapped ship has a large supply of Hamms aboard.A dedicated Hamms man can sense these things and gets a little woozy at the thought of Hamms going into the deep to be consumed by whales and giant squid.

Not in the least. No one has to do anything my way. I'm not telling you what you must or must not do, I'm just another guy complaining that I can't understand half of what you say, and you seem to think it's funny that way.

You like playing the class clown, fine. Not my business. You like your fake German and nonsensical references, fine. You like spamming the forums with drivel, fine. Not my problem anymore. The only thing I can do at this point is ignore you.

Bye.

Interesting the Chinese ship MV Xue Long (Snow Dragon) was built in the Ukraine in 1993 it is the only research ship that the Chinese have that is also an icebreaker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Xue_Long

This thread makes for weird reading now that all the posts have been edited.

For a minute there I thought Sailor Steve was having a stroke

The posts have been edited by the original author and whilst I could reinstate them to their original content I don't see what would be gained.

I'm confident you can read between the lines though....and no, Steve wasn't having a stroke :)

Now the ship is still trapped and the Chinese Snow Dragon is just 12 miles away unable to make progress with nine feet of ice in the way and the ship is down to just two weeks of food left (frozen food I suspect :woot:) for 70 passengers with another ship from Australia due any day now.

Should the rescuers charge for this rescue?

I think many in the United States should be charged the mountain climbers with little experience, the sailors that go out in rough weather etc. or at least pay National Park insurance at the entrance gate.

I disagree unless the persons involved go into their situation via complete negligence and then in the case of a commanded situation the responsibility lies solely with the ones in charge.Again though it would have to just be utter negligence.

the other problem is that few people would be able to pay the actual cost of a typical rescue anyway.

People should help other people in need money should not be an issue when a human life is at hand.The ones that take the risks accept this as part of the job for example the USAF ParaRescue motto is "That others may live".The Us Coast Guard motto "Semper Paratus" (Always Ready).

http://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/semper_paratus.asp