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Argentina and Chile organize winter land SAR operation in Antarctica
Argentina and Chile Antarctic organizations are planning this year’s edition of the Search and Rescue training operation which is scheduled to take place sometime between August and September in the Antarctic Peninsula Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesLike I always say... Argentina and Chile working together in Antarctica is the norm.
May 23rd, 2011 - 05:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0When it comes to our sector, we are Antarctica.
No one else.
Of course......in an imaginative sense.
May 23rd, 2011 - 09:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0.,... deluded, maybe !
May 23rd, 2011 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Weren't these the two nations who were so confident of their own sovereignty over Antarctica that they refused to defend it in the ICJ......... :)
May 23rd, 2011 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we are Antarctica lolololol
May 23rd, 2011 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yes COLD WHITE LIVERED,
and vermin, both should be removed as soon as,,,,before you infect others .
Do you people know what you're saying? I mean insults aside... do you actually know what you're talking about?
May 24th, 2011 - 06:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0When was the last time the UK organized a seasonal Search & Rescue operation in Antarctica? How many bases does the UK have in Antarctica capable of mounting these type of operations?
All you have down there are small meteorological stations... all you're good at is planting flags around.
Stretch your fingers and google yourselves out of all the crap you just wrong... if you can. ;-)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1570291/Sinking-Antarctic-cruise-ship-Rescuers-arrive.html
May 24th, 2011 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0This one is interesting, we coordinated it 8,000 miles away in Falmouth :)...so much for needing some Daygo in a wooden hut with a pair of binoculars and a hand cranked satellite phone to coordinate a rescue :)
“When was the last time the UK organized a seasonal Search & Rescue operation”
May 24th, 2011 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0By this i assume you mean regualr training excesses in the event that someone would need rescuing. Yes, they do.
“How many bases does the UK have in Antarctica capable of mounting these type of operations?”
All bases from all nations have some form of SAR capability, it's a basic requirment of living down there.
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/living_and_working/diaries/rothera/2010/02/index.php
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/living_and_working/diaries/rothera/2010/02/index.php
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/living_and_working/diaries/rothera/2010/02/index.php
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/living_and_working/diaries/rothera/2010/02/index.php
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May 24th, 2011 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“British Coastguard from Falmouth helped to co-ordinate teams from Argentina and Norfolk, Virginia,”
That's interesting… and a lie.
”A mayday call was put out by the ship at 04:24 UTC, and rescue operations were quickly coordinated by the Prefectura Naval (Coast Guard Corps) of the Argentine Republic, and the Chilean Navy Center for Search and Rescue. Chile dispatched the icebreaker Almirante Viel, and nearby commercial ships including the MN Ushuaia, the National Geographic Endeavor, and the Norwegian Coastal Express ship MS Nordnorge which was operating as a passenger cruise ship at the time. By 07:30 UTC, all 91 passengers, 9 guides and 54 crew, from over 14 countries, were evacuated and had taken to the Explorer's life boats. The evacuees drifted for 5 hours until they were picked up by the Norwegian ship MS Nordnorge which arrived on scene at approximately 10:00 UTC.“ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Explorer#Sinking
”No injuries were reported although passengers reportedly endured subfreezing temperatures for several hours as they waited in bobbing lifeboats for a Norwegian liner that took them to a Chilean military base in the region.“ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Explorer#Sinking
The UK didn't ”coordinate” anything, I see no presence from the UK at all.
Argentina and Chile coordinated the rescue…. AS USUAL.
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You didn't post anything regarding SAR operations, just links to tiny stations.
Read them, all the links talk about SAR operations.
May 24th, 2011 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 09 Martin_Fierro: Just in the same way there was no US or Argentinian presence.
May 24th, 2011 - 04:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It was widely reported that US, UK and Argentina coordinated or atleast helped to but the only two nations to physically do anything was Norway and Chile.
Search and rescue operations as the basis for sovereignty :) fucking hilarious!
May 26th, 2011 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if Vernets colony in the Falklands in 1833 was a SAR operation :)
The fact that they even announced this to the press shows that it's not a regualr operation. Our bases do them all year around, It's standard procedure.
May 26th, 2011 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes two teams of 6........thats what 12 men? and all military personnel? ....yet our hundred or so staff are all SAR trained and civilians.
May 27th, 2011 - 07:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0I guess that means we have a greater basis for sovereignty then :)
Even states it in the article.
May 27th, 2011 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Bernardo O’Higgins which have been nominated for this year’s SAR land exercise.”
Out of two nations they have one yearly SAR exercise. Sad, really.
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