They left a Russian ship (leased by Australians) which was stuck in the ice, via helicopter, and were ferried to a Chinese ship (leased by more Australians) for evacuation.
Now they all sit on the Chinese Ship “The Snow Dragon” which is,….
…. wait for it,…..
…… also stuck in the ice. 
(Via Telegraph) A ship which was used to rescue by helicopter 52 people from a trapped Antarctic ship has now found itself in need of rescue – after it got stuck in heavy ice.
Having not moved for several days while preparing to airlift the passengers, the Chinese-owned Snow Dragon is now wedged in ice.
The ship was used as a launch pad to pick up the passengers on Thursday, after they had spent nine days stranded. Their ship, the Akademik Shokalskiy, became wedged in ice on Christmas Eve as it was heading towards Antarctica.
After a lengthy operation to ferry passengers from the Akademik Shokalskiy to the awaiting Australian ship, the Aurora Austrialis, by helicopter, the Snow Dragon was due to leave the area.
But less than 24 hours later, it too was stuck in ice.
“It will attempt to maneuver through the ice when tidal conditions are most suitable, during the early hours of 4 January 2014,” said a statement from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, AMSA.
Greg Mortimer, one of three expedition leaders on the Akademik Shokalskiy, said it had been a “roller-coaster” rescue.
Speaking from the Australian ship, where all the passengers were recovering, he said: “I was immensely relieved for the people under my care.”
He added that he was “very sad” to leave behind the Russian vessel and its crew.
Jason Mundy, Australian Antarctic Division acting director, who is on board the Aurora Australis, said: “The passengers seem very glad to now be with us and they are settling in to their new accommodation.”
Mr Mundy said there were enough rooms for the passengers, and the ship can “look after them well for the final part of their journey”.
The passengers, mostly Australians and New Zealanders, will probably arrive in Australia’s southern island state of Tasmania around mid-January. The Akademik Shokalskiy’s Russian crew will stay on board until the ice breaks up and the ship is freed.
The Russian-owned research ship left New Zealand on November 28 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of an Antarctic journey led by Australian explorer Douglas Mawson.
It became trapped on December 24, 100 nautical miles east of French Antarctic station Dumont d’Urville and about 1,500 nautical miles south of Tasmania. (continue reading)
Good Lord! Russians and Chinese stuck in the ice – to quote the penguins: “There goes the neighborhood!”
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Yep, only the good Lord has such a sense of humor!
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Amen!!! I just want to uncork champagne after hearing that the *second* boat got stuck, too!
Of course, I don’t want anyone on either boat to get hurt…but a little wake up call to their idiotic dogma is just precious…
Hello….hello….Al Gore????……dang…..his number has been disconnected…..
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Part and parcel of the plan – next we’ll get some other country’s ship stuck a wee bit closer, than another and another and another – until they can all walk to safety by going from ship to ship.
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Then we shall call it “March of the phlegm-winds”
….. or “Running of the Glo-Bulls”. 😉
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I was going to say the entrapment of the second ship exposed a chink in the rescue operation’s planning but there was just something that didn’t sound right…
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And a cool way of demonstrating it
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Couple’a more nations’ ships down there, and we can move the UN permanently. They can work on the problem of “globull warming” up close and personal-like.
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They can work on the problem of “globull warming” up close and personal-like.
I see what you did there 😉 😆
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Too funny..
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How ’bout gullible warming?
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Yes!
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Climate change – another tool in the box of the despots
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Good place for the U.N. I would hope that they would stay there.
Where is pajama Boy in all this? Shouldn’t he be there with his soul mates?
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Haha!!!
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Na, he belongs in someplace much hotter, much much hotter, lol.
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Among other things… Karma is apparently also quite persistent . 😉
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Reblogged this on BPI reblog and commented:
Gilligan’s Iceburg – The Hilarious “Stuck In The Ice” Exploits of The Global Warming Team Continues…. Yep, they’re stuck again…
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I keep wondering if the US had done the rescue, would it have gone better. Hmmm? Just pondering. This really is funny. And, so many news reports leave out that these guys were studying global warming, which makes it hilarious. Perfect title for this.
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How does one “study” Global Warming? Or study unicorns? Or leprechauns?
🙂 🙂 👿 🙂 🙂
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Well you sure don’t stay in one place for 11 hours like the Chinese did so that ice can freeze around you, too. Geez! This gets funnier by the minute. (I’ll be really ticked off if the U.S. is sent in to save the day. Let them stay stuck until their global warming happens.)
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Let’s send Barry in person. With Valjar, Moochelle, Biden, and Hillary too. Oh and Reid and Pelosi. And Mcconnell and Boehner…I think I spelled that wrong…
A Bipartisan effort to show goodwill to our Australian, New Zeelander, and Russian comrades… just make sure THEY get stuck until after Ted Cruz is sworn in as the new president
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Now that sounds good to me.
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Dear, dear Frankie. Ye of little faith.
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auscitizenmom, read at Newsbusters that it’s 98% of all MSM reports leave out the fact that they are global warming “scientists”.
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Meant to add: I guess they’re being global warming “scientists” is an… wait for it… “Inconvenient Truth”.
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GREAT ONE!!!
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I don’t know what we’re going to do down here if Hell freezes over.
Then again, the odds of America ever having a Republican President are about the same.
😉
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Air drop Gore, his hot air will free the ships in no time.
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😀
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Maybe Someone is trying to send a message.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Effect
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Where’s the Professor when you need him?
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Bwahahahaha! *ahem* I’ll try to control myself… LOLOLOLOL! Nope, can’t stop laughing! My sides hurt!
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Isn’t Karma a b**ch?! boo-ya!!!!!
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I say they should have left the bastards on the russian ship with the Russian crew until the ship was free. Ya wanna study ‘climate change’? Well there ya to, make the best of it…
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They should’ve brought out the Greepeace freaks to share the joy. 🙄
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How much carbon, waste heat, and pollution are they dumping in the region to rescue these folks?
I say we cut our losses and stop hurting the environment. Everyone has to do their part and it’s high time they did theirs.
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i say leave them there
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This is a skit ready for Saturday Night Live.
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Mike McDaniel outdoes himself on this one:
Well of course! It’s silly to think they’re stuck in ice! That ice is melting! They’re just “…trapped by ice surrounding our ship,” which is some other ice, not the melting ice they know is melting, but some non-melting ice, like, you know, freezing ice that is frozen, unlike the melting ice they haven’t quite found, you know–melted–during their “experiment.”
http://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/icebreaker-irony/
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