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ec12nz

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Oh dear. Big song and dance about no EPIRB so no risk to potential rescuers but tells the world via phone he has problems.

So, his rig has damage and he needs fuel. Can't fix the problems himself so is not a real Viking.

Tosser.

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Did he not leave Antarctica 2 weeks ago?? I would have thought he would have been closer to South America by now and far more chance of repair there than in some remote base and being there with winter aproaching. Another week and I doubt he will get away from the ice.

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From another forum, posted by someone with more recent ica experience than me.

"Somehow, the pirates from Asterix and the Vikings come to mind more than the Vikings themselves.

 

According to NZ Customs, as reported by APNZ and the Norwegian NTB, this year's trip by Andhøy cost the New Zealand tax payers about 9000 New Zealand Dollars just for the search for the Nilaya, mostly in fuel for the P-3 Orion.

 

That comes on top of the cost borne by New Zealand and Sea Shepherd for the search for Berserk last year, ATV fuel spill clean-up, and the cost of Antarctic New Zealand sending Andhøy and Massie's gear back to New Zealand this year. If the Nilaya crew didn't collect their old fuel drums and food this year, that may have to be sent back by Antarctic New Zealand too. One presumes Andhøy will be able to pay these costs.

 

Also, Andhøy has given interviews saying this trip has "confirmed" that New Zealand is covering something up, as well as saying that New Zealand has removed "much of the equipment we were going to collect, like generator and fuel". (Except that the food and fuel is still there, as we already know; specifically, the fuel and food left by Andhøy and Massie is still in a locked container at Scott Base but they would be given access to it if they wanted it, only the ATVs and the gear from Massie and Andhøy were sent back. As for the seaside depots left by Berserk, nobody has claimed to have seen them at all.)

 

He's even saying that the New Zealand authorities have put their lives in danger, because they have a ton less fuel, less food, and "without a generator we don't have the deicing equipment we should have had"

 

Andhøy er forbannet på newzealandske myndigheter - Aftenposten

 

So let me get this straight: They went late in the season - again - and don't have deicing equipment. They were gambling on finding depots which they before the trip said they weren't sure would be found? They lack fuel and food, but have an extra crew member, and didn't collect their fuel and food from Scott Base as they could have. And now they're going to try their luck with Argentina and Chile, lacking travel documents, with a vessel with an unclear flag state, and in violation of international treaties? Could they end up getting arrested by the Chilean armada?"

 

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"Modern yachts can do without a boom at a pinch, and can certainly do without diesel. Of course, Viking longships routinely did without both.

 

You're right, Landkrabbe, about comic-book Vikings, but even they would have sufficient integrity not to boast about their self-sufficiency immediately before heading the wrong way in autumn, for spurious reasons, to play the injured party on the world stage yet again.

 

The Argentine base is in a no-win situation just as the other bases have been.

 

If they help him, they create a very public precedent, fueling an expectation which they do not have the resources to live up to. And, as others have found, even helping him does not insulate them from his propensity to make vile insinuations at a later date.

 

If (as they should) they politely decline -- and warn him of the appropriate legal action if he sails to Argentina, he is in his best-rehearsed role.

 

If he were then to, say, to sail north, sink and row ashore somewhere, in the manner of a Francophone comic-book, the problem of the mythological Russian captain and flag status and missing permission from Roshydromet would not have to be confronted, he would have the perfect excuse to have no departure clearance papers, he would be a hero more than ever, and it would all be somebody else's fault. Heck, he wasn't even the captain!

 

But I'm sure he's more inventive than that. I just wish he would find somewhere less fragile, in terms of cultural and geo-political as well as ecological fabric, to act as a backdrop for his dramatic endeavours.

 

It's not that much further to Beverley Hills, Jarle. Ride that Humboldt, baby!"

 

All heil the viking tosser.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10801157

 

The Maori activist who stowed away on an unauthorised voyage to Antarctica has declared himself a "political refugee'' in protest against the New Zealand Government.

 

:wtf:

 

Good Lord, where do these idiots keep coming from?

 

Hone Harawira's 'Mana Party' of course!

 

An idiot on so many levels.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10801157

 

The Maori activist who stowed away on an unauthorised voyage to Antarctica has declared himself a "political refugee'' in protest against the New Zealand Government.

 

:wtf:

 

Good Lord, where do these idiots keep coming from?

 

Great ....grant him refugee status in somewhere like the Faulklands and get rid of him...:)

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