A model of the Chinese icebreaker vessel Xue Long displayed at the Hong Kong Science Museum.
The ship carrying the warmists who'd set out to measure ice-melt in the Antarctic remains stuck fast in the summer ice, although the Chinese icebreaker that also got stuck in the summer ice as it tried to make its way over to rescue the warmists appears to have freed itself and is now trying to get back into open water. An Australian icebreaker made some two miles of headway toward the vessels before thick summer irony forced it to return to open water.
"It's now up to us three ships [the Shokalskiy, the Aurora and the Xue Long] to agree on a [rescue] strategy," Captain Doyle said.
Initial reports indicated that a French icebreaker was headed to the scene, but they've apparently surrendered.
