je.st
news
Tag: antarctic
Antarctic passengers ponder logistics of air rescue as second icebreaker closes in
2013-12-29 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sunday began as the days now always begin on the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, with a briefing for the passengers on the status of the rescue effort. The crew and expedition leaders had been poring over weather and ice forecasts and speaking with maritime rescue agencies and other ships' captains since the early morning. At 10am they decided it was time to warn the rest of the passengers to steel themselves for the extreme-case scenario if the icebreakers could not get us out within the next 48 hours:...
Antarctic expedition: still icebound what happens next is anyone's guess
2013-12-28 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Life has taken a turn for the worse since Christmas Day, when gusts of up to 70mph slammed into the hull of the MV Akademik Shokalskiy and snow circled its decks, making it impossible to stand up straight outside. Since then we have been stuck in pack ice. The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long has given up its attempt to rescue us as ice sheets continue to spread and thicken. Now Xue Long is waiting for the Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis to join it in a joint bid to free our ship. Meanwhile,...
Tags: guess
expedition
antarctic
anyones
Antarctic mission on ice as rescue ship is forced back
2013-12-27 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Cape de la Motte, East Antarctica: the Xue Long appeared as a dot on the horizon, against a bright blue sky, to the starboard side of our ice-locked ship just after dinnertime on Friday evening, local time. After two days of intense blizzards, with biting cold that had forced us to spend all our time below decks, the break in the weather and the approaching rescue had put the crew and passengers of the MV Akademik Shokalskiy in good spirits. With temperatures at a pleasantly bearable -1C, some...
Antarctic expedition scientists trapped in ice
2013-12-25 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A team of scientists and members of the public who have been retracing the footsteps of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911 have become trapped in heavy ice a few miles from the coast of Antarctica. Passengers aboard the ship, the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, were informed on Christmas morning that the captain had issued a distress call to the Maritime Service Authority based in Falmouth in the UK earlier in the day. Three nearby icebreaker ships have been notified of the Shokalskiy's...
Tags: ice
scientists
trapped
expedition
Japanese whale 'killing' fleet leaves for Antarctic
2013-12-09 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Japan's three whaling ships left the port of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Saturday, to join the mother vessel Nisshin Maru and the remaining whaling fleet in the Antarctic Sea.
Tags: japanese
leaves
killing
fleet
Sites : [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] next »