When we booked this trip, we were reminded that “circumstances may make it necessary or desirable to deviate from the proposed itinerary.” But we didn’t anticipate our ship be locked in ice, unable to start at our embarkation point in New Zealand. Now that is starting to look like a real possibility.
You may have been following news reports in recent days of the scientific research vessel MV Akademik Shokalskiy being trapped in Antarctic sea ice. Well, that’s our ship!
Here’s the story in the NY Times. … and the latest update in The Guardian. The tour operator, Heritage Expeditions hopes to make a decision before next Monday the 6th as to whether the voyage will go ahead. @DavidDaiku
I have been following this story. The reports said there were some tourist on board the Shokalskiy along with the research and science folks. I never would have guessed that was your ship.
Let's hope it can soon get out of the ice and back into "the flow".