Despite all modern navigation conveniences – the ice must just sneak up.
Summer in about five weeks. Checkout the ships webcams here – great pictures – they are 80 nautical miles from Casey.
Despite all modern navigation conveniences – the ice must just sneak up.
Summer in about five weeks. Checkout the ships webcams here – great pictures – they are 80 nautical miles from Casey.
I’ve just tipped Anthony Watts on this.
It will be interesting to see what play this gets in the media. And that stern view indicates they have a problem that won’t be resolved by melting, in a few days.
On Google News this morning there was a story about Australia’s expensive Antarctic airstrip was melting,it has gone now,I wonder why?
Ed. note: Here is the story.
Frozen $46m runway melting – October 24, 2012 – Andrew Darby
Looks like an old story – refers to it as a “…summer-time airstrip.”
So presumably not melting NOW.
Looks to me like a blatant attempt to pull out any “ice melting” story to divert attention from the embarrassment of having their ship trapped in ice.
It seems such adventures aren’t all that unusual for the Aurora Australis as we see from this incident early (January) this year.
The webcam today shows the ship still fast in ice at 9am.
I like the Macquarie island webcam with the Elephant seals down in front of the camera enjoying a solid relax.
Going by the webcam video they have been delayed for at least a week now – at times they have nudged their way forward a little but nothing like normal progress. Just now I can not open the sitrep page to check back before the 21st.
The AAD has just spoken about this, saying the return to Hobart will be delayed.
“…at least one day.”
Looks like it still hasn’t arrived.
secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/schedules/VoyageTrackSingle.cfm?bvs_id=19051
The ship is still rock-solid in ice today.
Note the new snow on the ridge at Macquarie island too, not worrying the Elephant seals lazing around.