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Grateful for rescuers en route to free icebound scientists. "The vessel is stuck about 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Australia."It's fantastic - I love it when the ice wins and we don't," said expedition marine ecologist Tracy Rogers. "It just reminds you that as humans we don't control everything."

In addition to the Russian crew, the expedition team consists of professional scientists from Australia and New Zealand, and volunteer science assistants - members of the public who paid to join the scientific adventure.

"Now we just have to guess and hope and wonder which ice breaker is going to come rescue us," Rogers told BBC reporter Andrew Luck-Baker. "Will it be the Chinese, will it be the Australians? Will it be the French?"
Photo Credit: Andrew Peacock