Icebreaker 'not built for' rescue effort

By Nicky Phillips
Updated December 29 2013 - 9:53pm, first published December 28 2013 - 8:42pm

After more than 11 hours of ramming thick sea ice to rescue the stranded Akademik Shokalskiy, Chinese ice-breaker Xue Long has retreated to open water, leaving the rescue operation to Australian ice-breaker Aurora Australis.

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