Antarctic helicopter rescue delayed as second ship trapped in ice

By Nicky Phillips
Updated January 2 2014 - 2:01pm, first published 1:30pm
Trapped: Chinese ice-breaker Xue Long sits in pack ice in Watt Bay, Antarctica. Picture COLIN COSIER
Trapped: Chinese ice-breaker Xue Long sits in pack ice in Watt Bay, Antarctica. Picture COLIN COSIER

Plans to rescue 52 passengers trapped on the stricken Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy have been thrown into disarray after the Chinese ice-breaker Xue Long itself became stuck in pack ice, west of the Mertz Glacier.

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