12 April 2012
The US Air Force air-dropped vital engine parts to a stranded British fishing trawler caught in pack ice for the past two weeks in the Ross Sea off Antarctica's northern coast.
The Falklands-registered trawler Argos Georgia suffered engine failure on December 23, leaving the ship and its 25 crew disabled and surrounded by pack ice.
A US C-17 Loadmaster dropped an engine piston and casing from approximately 121 metres (400 feet) above the Ross Sea ice early on Saturday, said Lieutenant Colonel Jim McGann, New Zealand-based commander of the US Antarctic base supply group Deep Freeze.
