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Sea Of Okhotsk rescue not quite over yet

While the icebreakers had broken through the worst of the ice, the rescue is not yet over and my previous post was a little premature.

A report of the latest news is available here: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/01/its-not-over.html

I was not expecting to be writing about the Okhotsk Sea today, but in yesterday’s account there were warnings that the crisis was not quite over. And indeed that is the case, with Voice of Russia observing that the rescue operation “will not be over today”. Conditions appear to have deteriorated sharply and, last night, the four-ship convoy covered “no more than three miles”. A helicopter is out reconnoitring the ice situation today.

The convoy in the Sea of Okhotsk

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