NORWEGIAN cruise company Hurtigruten has struck back at reports that the British Navy rescued MV Fram in Antarctica (CW 24 Jan), saying the ship never required rescuing from ice. The Navy had initially issued a press release saying the HMS Protector spent two hours guiding Fram to safety in Antarctica...
NORWEGIAN cruise company Hurtigruten
has struck back at reports that the British Navy
rescued MV Fram in Antarctica (CW 24 Jan),
saying the ship never required rescuing from ice.
The Navy had initially issued a press release
saying the HMS Protector spent two hours
guiding Fram to safety in Antarctica last week.
Hurtigruten has since released its own
statement clarifying the situation, saying “MS
Fram had decided not to sail to one of its landing
points of Brown Bluff in Antarctica as the ice
conditions in the area that day were challenging”.
“The HMS Protector was sailing in the area
and they offered assistance to MS Fram so that
the ship could sail to Brown Bluff.
“The ship was therefore escorted in and out
of Brown Bluff by HMS Protector”.
