MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
US icebreaker Polar Star rescues Australian longliner trapped in Antarctic ice
An Australian fishing vessel that was stranded in Antarctic ice for a week with a damaged propeller is expected to make its way to New Zealand under its own power.The 63-metre Antarctic Chieftain longliner damaged its propeller after hitting an iceberg and was stranded about 1,500 kilometres north-east of McMurdo Sound with 26 people on board. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnd where was the argie icebreaker?
Feb 16th, 2015 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh yes, still in port after many, many years of incompetence and corruption in dealing with the electrical fire.
Good job other countries know WTF they are doing, eh?
All's well that ends well.
Good old Polar Star ...
Feb 16th, 2015 - 07:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0how much is the argie icebreaker still costing?
Feb 17th, 2015 - 01:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0is it still 'grounded'?
good to see the vital international cooperation in this incident (yet no argie support as per usual).
So because their “icebreaker” is still hors de combat, the Argentines have no way of policing the empire that they “claim”(snigger, snigger) in Antarctica.
Feb 17th, 2015 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0What an incompetent shower of wouldbe imperialists(more sniggers).
What say ye to this, paulcedron?
Must be the Britishers fault, ay paul.
Because as we all know, Argentina is as pure as the driven snow.
Im sure they have a spare ship at LEGOLAND, she could buy...lol
Feb 17th, 2015 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Australia is a British country. And the UK has an icebreaker. So why did the UK not rescue the Australians. Why do the British have to continually feed from the teat of the US?
Feb 19th, 2015 - 04:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0@6 Hepatia,
Feb 19th, 2015 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0The USA is also a British country, Hepatia, old fruit.
l'm sure that our cousins didn't mind helping us out.
Afterall we have helped the USA in many ways.
The British, Australian & Canadian soldiers killed in lraq & Afghanistan, killed while fighting America's imperialistic wars.
Hepatitis......why the of the sea is that the any and closest vessel makes way to any vessel in distress......unless you are Argentine and then it's every man for themselves.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lolol.
Feb 19th, 2015 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2015/02/16/us-icebreaker-polar-star-rescues-australian-longliner-trapped-in-antarctic-ice#comment381530: If you truly believe that the US is a British country then you are living in an alternate reality - one that is not informed by history or the present.
Feb 24th, 2015 - 04:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0But, on a more serious note, your claim that the British have helped the US does need to be addressed. Since WWII the national security policy of the British has been nothing more than to cling as desperately and as tightly as they can to the US. That is they have made themselves the vassal states of the US. A chief function of vassal states is to fight the wars that the commanding power requires then to. However, in this regard the British have not rendered good service to the US. Too many US troops have died while an insufficient number of British troops have died fighting the wars of the US national interest.
In any case, with the Pivot to Asia, this is coming to an end. The American people are tired of propping up the Europeans.
@10 Hepatia,
Feb 24th, 2015 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Touch a raw nerve, did l?
l won't respond by lashing out at the USA when l really mean to fight you.
ln many ways l admire the USA.
I have both friends & relatives there.
But l am not blind to the USA's faults.
lt has faults like any country.
l don't know who you are(& l don't really care), but you have shown yourself repeatedly to be anti-British, that l do have to respond to your misinformation & outright wishful thinking.
ln no way will the UK be handing the Falklands over to the tender mercies of a failed rogue state like Argentina.
You can just forget about that.
l don't know who you mix with in the US, but l suspect that you are an expatriate Argentine, masquerading as an American.
All the Americans that l know, are mostly indifferent to Argentina's ridiculous “claims” re the Falklands & quite a few are pro-British on the subject.
Of course there are Americans who support Argentina.
Thats a democracy.
Something that you wouldn't know about in Argentina.
Tell me Hepatia, exactly how does the USA prop up the Europeans?
Finally your arguments are shown to be hateful when you say that not enough British troops have been killed.
The implication is that if more had been then there would have been less American casualties.
You are quite a nasty hate-filled person, aren't you……Troll.
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/02/16/us-icebreaker-polar-star-rescues-australian-longliner-trapped-in-antarctic-ice#comment382382: I do not have a particularly high opinion of the British. But I am not anti British. I am pro American.
Feb 25th, 2015 - 12:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are wrong to say that the UK will not be handing over the Malvinas to an American state. This territory will be returned within the next 25 years.
It is true that Argentina is mostly treated with indifference in the US. But this indifference is not total. For instance a number of US corporations have significant investments in Argentina.
The only Americans that I know that are pro British are the recently discredited Neocons. This is the company you keep.
You are free to speculate as to my birth place, citizenship and residence. You will note that I give no indication about these attributes in my post. So your speculations are just that.
How does the US prop up Europe? In the current context let me answer by asking some rhetorical questions. Do you think that the UK, or even Germany, will redeploy militarily to counter any threat to the Baltic NATO states from the RF? Do you think that the Europeans will deploy in the Black Sea region to force a resolution to the Ukrainian conflict (a conflict triggered by the Europeans)? No. The fact is that the US provides 90% of NATO's force projection capabilities. This was amply demonstrated by the Libyan fiasco and the need for the US to constantly prop up the UK's 'air bridge' to Afghanistan.
But, beyond that, post WWII Europe is a US creation. Before that Europe was a failed continent and it was necessary for the US to fight two major wars to correct that. Currently Europe is now reverting to the former failed continent state. It is the US national interest to insulate itself from this reversion.
No doubt a raw nerve has been touched. But whether that nerve is yours or mine can be judged by the fact that it is you calling me a 'troll' - not I you.
@12 Hepatia,
Feb 25th, 2015 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well you did answer, so l suppose that is something.
l'd really like to know why you think the UK will be handing the Falklands over to Argentina when Argentina has no legitimate, legal or moral rights to these lslands.
And lets get one thing crystal clear_ the islands are called the Falklands NOT the Malvinas.
That you call them that only reinforces my belief that you are a Latino of some description.
ln fact, if l remember a while back, you were raving on about the Latinos soon having a majority in the USA & relishing that fact.
To be honest, l don't really care.
IF Argentina did have any rights, don't you think that they would have been presenting their “evidence”at the ICJ in the Hague?
Now why do you suppose that they do not?
You have no idea of the company that l keep.
Some of my relations are large landowners in Wyoming & Nebraska. All of them are American citizens & l have met many of their friends & relatives.
None of them, to my knowledge ever think about Argentina & its ridiculous “claims”
Yes l did call you a Troll.
Lets look at some of your snide comments:-
“why can't the UK rescue the Australian fishing boat”
why did you say that? Do you dislike the Australians too?
Then your smart-ass remark about “vassal” states,
The UK has a treaty with the USA.
So does Australia, thats why good Aussie soldiers got killed in Vietnam,
you messed that up, bigtime.
The British cleaned out the communists from Malaya in the 1950s,how come you couldn't do the same in Vietnam?
l think that you are very wrong about your predictions in Europe.
The Russians will realise sooner or later that Europe will have to co-operate to counter the muslim threat.
NATO was an American creation, for sure.
lt was/is the frontline for America against the Soviet Union.
Helping Europe, for sure.
Also helping the USA.
If Europe had fallen to the SU, America would have been next.
You still haven't explained how the USA “props up” Europe.
l still believe that you are a Troll.
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