Another Inconvenient Truth:Tourists hurt after Arctic glacier breaks

[malaise]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6938940.stm
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A group of British holidaymakers were injured on a sightseeing ship in the Arctic when ice fell from a glacier.

A total of 17 British passengers were injured, two seriously, along with one crew member, off the Svalbard Islands, 500km (310 miles) north of Norway.

Ice is thought to have hit the deck of the luxury vessel and fallen into the sea close by causing the ship to list.

Four of the injured were flown to a hospital on the Norwegian mainland and 14 were taken to a local hospital.

The Russian crew member was among those taken to Tromso on the mainland. None of the injuries are life-threatening.

[Chulanowa]

1. News to the pilot of the boat: That ice is bigger than it looks!

You do NOT want to be next to a calving glacier. I see some litigation coming out of this.

[roguevalley]

2. I remember when someone walked up to Exit glacier up here and

was going to have her picture taken when it calved and killed her. It was awful but they didn't know any better. Poor things.