Seal Hunters Stranded in Ice

[Omaha Steve]

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=nation_world&id=5240125

Seal Hunters Stranded in Ice
An Estimated 60,000 Animals Will Be Saved Because of Deep Freeze
ABCNews

Apr. 24, 2007 - A rescue effort is under way to save hundreds of seal hunters whose boats have been stuck in a block of thick ice in the North Atlantic Ocean for more than a week.

The hunters' ships are stuck in a solid ice pack 140 miles long and 70 miles wide. Two huge storms trapped more than 100 vessels just as they were setting out for Canada's annual seal hunt.

"Many of the vessels have run out of provisions, fresh water, fuel in some cases," Canadian Coast Guard Capt. Windross Banton told "Good Morning America" from his ship as he engaged in the rescue effort.

Banton is trying to get food to more than 300 sailors and help their ships break free from the ice.

"Right now, outside as far as the eye can see, there is nothing but a field of ice," he said.

The biggest danger is the pressure the ice puts on the vessels. The pressure can actually lift them out of the water.

FULL story & video at link.

[flvegan]

1. Can "lift them out" and has (PIC)

[KansDem]

10. Yeow! I hope they don't get hit in the head with one of those 'copter blades!

They might wind up looking like this:

[ReadTomPaine]

11. They are usually designed that way - they either slip out of the ice's grip...

or get crushed by it.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

31. it's much better to be lifted up and out

than have your hull crushed.

[MonkeyFunk]

2. yikes!

I hope everyone gets out safely.

[tblue]

3. To them I say: How does it feel, huh, to be at the mercy of forces larger than yourself?

I don't wish them ill, but I hope they cancel the entire enterprise.

[loudsue]

17. I'm not nearly as nice as you are toward the seal murderers.

They haven't had NEARLY a taste of the karma coming their way.

:kick:

[tblue]

20. On second thought, let them rot. Who could murder a little seal???

Who could do it?

[AtomicKitten]

4. ah, that's a shame

[gratuitous]

5. Excellent . . .release the polar bears, Smithers

Just kidding, of course. I hope they get out and get home safely and without their "harvest."

[eppur_se_muova]

21. LOL! The polar bears could use some fattening up lately. nt

[angstlessk]

6. Let the baby seals come to their rescue...should they die?

oh, well, they took their chances. anyone who comes to their defense but decried the moutain climbers are just sickos

[catgirl]

7. It's hard to feel bad for seal hunters

maybe they'll rethink it next time.

[Mist]

8. Good. (I'm NOT a compassionate liberal!) nt

[iconoclastic cat]

9. Boo fucking hoo. nt

[frebrd]

12. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch!

What kind of person would do that for a living?

[durtee librul]

14. Hope they have to stay there and wait for global warming to free them......

[loudsue]

18. LOL! Good one!

:kick::kick::kick:

[Crunchy Frog]

13. My heart is just breaking for those poor seal hunters.

:sarcasm:

[DKRC]

15. "Can you hear me NOW?" - Mother Nature

I keep hearing Bill Maher in my head when I see this story!

:evilgrin:

[The Backlash Cometh]

30. He had flawless delivery with that line.

[ET Awful]

16. What a . . .. shame?

No, that's not the word I'm looking for. . . . case of karma kicking them in the ass? Yeah, that's what I meant.

[seasat]

19. A baby seal walks into a bar

the bar tender asks, "What'll you have?"


The seal replies, "Anything but a Candadian Club".


Sorry. Couldn't resist.


:evilgrin:

[Catchawave]

22. Oh the karma of it all ... n/t

[Arugula Latte]

23. I need a human skin coat.

Club them!

(Hey -- it's my "culture"! How dare they criticize me!)

[allalone]

24. bummer

[IndianaGreen]

25. God is pissed at these assholes!

Let the seal hunters get rescued, but let their fleet sink to the bottom of the ocean.

[NCarolinawoman]

26. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! n/t

[donsu]

27. good, hope they stay stuck until seal hunting season is over

nt

[robinlynne]

28. You are all so polite. I hope they die.

[The Backlash Cometh]

29. Karma is a bitch.

I bet there are polar bears who wish they were in their predicament.

[EnviroBat]

32. Let those sick bastards freeze to death.

What a fucking disgusting way to make a living.

[NiteOwll]

33. It sucks to be them, huh?

Let 'em fend for themselves. What they do is disgusting.

[OneBlueSky]

34. who says there's no such thing as karma? . . . n/t

.

[Forkboy]

35. I hope people club them in the head while they're on the ice.

Repeatedly.

[LibertyorDeath]

36. Hey what do ya know..Now if they could be clubbed & skinned

It would help with the yin and yang...

[Donald Ian Rankin]

37. The responses to this disgust me.

Whatever your view of the ethics of seal-hunting, doing anything other than hoping that all of the three hundred people in danger survive is utterly contemptible.

[Gloria]

38. KARMA??