Aurora resumes journey
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An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers who were retrieved from an icebound ship in the Antarctic resumed its journey home yesterday, leaving behind another two icebreakers trapped in pack ice.
The Aurora Australis will continue its interrupted resupply mission to Australia’s Antarctic base Casey Station before returning to Tasmania in mid-January with the rescued scientists, journalists and tourists.
The AMSA’s Rescue Coordination Center, which oversaw the rescue, told the Aurora to stay in the area in case help was needed for the other two icebreakers trapped in ice. Under international conventions observed by most countries, ships’ crews are obliged to take part in such rescues and the owners carry the costs.
An Antarctic tourism operator is holding out hope that the Russian icebreaker will be free in time to take 48 sightseers on a cruise of Antarctica’s Ross Sea.
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