U.S. icebreaker heads to Antarctic to help stuck ships

America rises to the occasion helping the Russian and Chinese. A good example of cooperation for the U.N.

It's the traditional rules of seafaring. Politics is never a consideration.

Hopefully the US icebreaker won't get stuck rescuing the Chinese icebreaker rescuing the Australian ship...

aTinyKitten

...rescuing the Australian ship...

There's no Australian ship in need of rescue. The original ship is Russian and named Akademik Shokalskiy. The Aussie ship (Aurola Australis) was only sent to receive then transport the passengers that the Chinese ship flew off of the Russian ship and is not stuck like the other two ships (Russian and Chinese).

The Japanese icebreaker Shirase made it to near the Showa base for the first time in three winters yesterday.

Good luck Polar Star! Free those ships!

Just drop a barrel of whiskey to the passengers and call it a day.

Bgood41, the U.N. is beyond cooperation, beyond redemption. This seafaring episode has a lot more to do with the attitude of mariners, and the written and unspoken laws of the sea. Like paulinusa says, there are no politics there, and there won't be. Ever.

Irony: A group of Global Warming scientists head to the South Pole to study the melting ice and become trapped by heavy ice. ;p