AMSA has a Media Release – Search and rescue of passenger vessel trapped in ice underway – The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is coordinating a search and rescue for a Russian passenger ship beset by ice approximately 1500 nautical miles south of Hobart.

MV Akademik Shokalskiy – not much bigger than a tug – we can only hope they are in no danger. More update and complete news should be forthcoming – taxpayers money is helping to pay for this. The Falmouth MRCC received a distress message via satellite – which they passed on to AMSA. It is interesting that some news accounts such as the ABC refer to a “cruise ship” – while expeditionsonline.com refer to the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) as the dominant numbers on the ship.

The AMSA Media Release goes on to say – Three ships with icebreaking capability have responded, including the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) vessel Aurora Australis, and are now en route to the area. The closest vessels are at least two days sailing time away. The other two ships are likely to be China’s colossal ex Russian red icebreaker, the Xuelong or Snow Dragon – and the French ice breaker L’Astrolabe, a well known visitor at Hobart over the years.

The Aurora Australis sitrep page on the 24th has them 25% way through the 30 hours of pumping 900K litres of diesel ashore at Casey. They look to be 650 miles west of the Akademik Shokalskiy so to respond immediately would be to interrupt their supplying of Casey and set back further their warm season work. The Aurora Australis is no great shakes as an icebreaker anyway – they were delayed in ice themselves last month – and in 2012. Surely AAD would not lightly delay further this seasons work if people on the Akademik Shokalskiy were in no danger.

Fairfax reports early on 26th that the Aurora Australis is already on her way from Casey on what is a two day voyage to help. It is not clear if the Chinese ice breaker Xuelong is closer; considering the Xuelong is much more powerful in the ice than the Aurora Australis – AAD must have had good reasons to drop the unloading at Casey ? I suppose National issues are at stake.

I always thought the Arctic Ocean region was claimed by the obvious arctic nations with claims forming a sort of pie chart map with slices converging at the pole.

Apparently not so. Arctic claim will include North Pole, Baird pledges as Canada delays full seabed bid

Useful NY Times map from 2005 showing a couple of proposals with some information.
Arctic regions oil potential – seems Alaska is still the main game –

Comments and map re Shell drilling in various arctic regions –

• Maybe the Canadians need to take it easy.
• What used to be referred to downunder as “cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down”

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Snow & ice across large swath of the USA.

Common sense strikes again.

Race to South Pole involving Prince Harry suspended –

“…conditions have been ‘very difficult’ and ‘far harder’ than expected… The “Walking With The Wounded” teams will proceed together until closer to the pole.”

Mention of quote – [… unprecedented terrain on the plateau.] Who writes this stuff?

The ABC article – Aurora Australis returns – says,

“The Antarctic ship, Aurora Australis, has sailed into Hobart after spending days stuck in ice.”

Days ? – try 21 days.

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Last month I posted – Australian Antarctic supply ship Aurora Australis blocked by ice again – and a $Billion of our taxes props up this highly political green-left media org. The Govt should halve the taxpayers spending on the ABC now – then look at reforming what remains so ABC news and current affairs output is balanced.

Similar to 2012 – problems getting the ship to where they expect to get.
Webcam onboard

In 2012 I posted –
Australia’s Antarctic supply ship “RSV Aurora Australis” – icebound
October 23rd, 2012
and
Australia’s Antarctic supply ship “RSV Aurora Australis” icebound for three weeks – November 7th, 2012

Half way through spring – global warming not enough to save them
Snow cave tragedy: couple die after New Zealand rescuers hampered by horrendous weather
Some sound advice from NZ experts. – It’s all down to climbers when weather turns
A quick decision to turn around and head down might save you.
Do the summit another day.

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As reported by the ABC – Antarctic melting 10 times faster than 600 years ago –
The paper is paywalled at Nature here. Abram et al 2013 – Acceleration of snow melt in an Antarctic Peninsula ice core during the twentieth century
I was kindly given a pdf by one of the authors. Being curious to know if the MWP has been detected in the Antarctic I spent 5 seconds with Google and found these summaries at CO2 Science showing that several studies have detected the Medieval Warm Period in the Antarctic and also around the Antarctic Peninsula. The tip of which is not within the Antarctic Circle.
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I find it interesting that their 1000 year temperature record from James Ross Island does not show a clear Medieval Warm Period.