South Korean icebreaker reaches the Sparta

One News Monday 26th December, 2011

Help has finally arrived for the Russian fishing trawler stricken in Antarctic waters. The crew of the Sparta applauded as a South Korean icebreaker appeared to rescue them. The 48-metre vessel has been stranded on the Ross Sea after underwater ice tore a 30 centimetre gash in its side, 1.5 metres below the water line. Two airdrops by New Ze...

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