THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: MrAngryFace on August 09, 2007, 07:22:04 PM
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20197234/
OSLO, Norway - Ice broke off a glacier and hit a ship of British tourists sightseeing off a set of remote Arctic islands, injuring 18 people, police and the tour operator said Thursday.
Four people, two with serious injuries, were flown to a hospital on the Norwegian mainland after the accident Wednesday night on the Alexey Maryshev, a Russian research vessel converted into a luxury tour boat, said Jan Tommervold, a deputy sheriff on the Svalbard Islands.
He said the other 14 injured people were taken to a local hospital.
Ko de Korte of Oceanwide Expeditions, the Dutch Company that operates the ship, said by telephone from the Netherlands that there were 72 people aboard, including 50 British passengers and 22 crew and staff.
"The company director is on his way (to Svalbard)," he said. "We have been operating since 1982 and this is our first accident ... so this is serious."
The Alexey Maryshev was built in Finland in 1990 as a research vessel for the Hydrographic Institute of St. Petersburg and is under long-term contract with Oceanwide Expeditions.
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Glaciers breaking=automatically global warming's fault? Seems more like the underwater dragons are fucking with us.
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:lol
we're all doomed. :'(