Oceans CraigI knew roughly about this story but not the details… wow. They were so close to shore when things started to go wrong. #Antarctica #IceFloes #TakeARadio #NZgeo https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/at-the-mercy-of-the-ice/
At the mercy of the ice
In the Antarctic summer of 1972, four young scientists set off on a trimaran from Cape Bird for a quick outing on a clear day. They would spend the next five days stranded at sea, jumping between ice floes that shattered and sank beneath them, risking their lives with every leap.