Who Pays For The Rescue?
By Paul Homewood
Who pays for the rescue of the Akademik Shokalskiy? According to the Age:
The operators of a ship stricken in the southern ocean are facing a multimillion-dollar expense bill, as a third vessel began a rescue attempt five days after the tourist ship became trapped in sea ice.
Under the Treaty of the Safety of Life at Sea, vessels are required to respond to a distress message, with the costs incurred a matter for the ship owners after the event, the AMSA said.
These can include fuel costs, crew costs and loss of revenue.
According to Wiki, the Akademik is owned by the Russian Federation, through the Far Eastern Hydrometeorological Research Institute, Vladivostok. But it has been chartered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013/14, so it is not clear who will be responsible for the costs. It may depend on the terms of the charter.
The Expedition has been funded by a number of organisations, including:
University of NSW
Australian Govt Research Council
New Zealand Govt – Dept of Conservation
University of Exeter (UK)
US Antarctic Program
University of Waikato
University of Wollongong
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
How much funding do they have from the US Antarctic Program? They do not seem highly qualified.
Singed, American
So who are organisers of the failed holiday jaunt ? This is where the liability rests … The Guardian maybe ?
or maybe … http://expeditionsonline.com/info/about-expeditions-online/ ?
It must be worth it, they discovered the ‘tipping point’: http://pindanpost.com/2013/12/31/tourists-studying-climate-change-get-educated-discover-tipping-point/
The Spirit of Mawson dies as Antarctic pilgrims/tourists and their great leader – but not the crew – are to be rescued by helicopter.
If Turney is the leader shouldn’t he be the last one to leave the ice?
IANAL but responsibility must be the Captain’s. And his alone.
So it’ll be his employer who foots the bill
Presumably they will be insured.
Maybe only “Third Party, Fire, and Theft!”
But was the purpose “Business Use” (after all, Prof Turney admits to having a climate-related company), or, “Social, Domestic & Pleasure” with members of Turney’s family abord, and, a well-stocked bar?
Reblogged this on Cornwall Wind Watch and commented:
We vote that the alarmist department at Exeter should pay.
I think I know the uni of Exeter link, but can anyone elucidate?
The Expedition have them all linked on their web page below.
http://www.spiritofmawson.com/aae-supporters/
I was thinking of the individual peopke involved and the links between them rather than the organisations; so who at each of these organisations are the drivers, and what is the links/relationship between them?
Too bad the sponsors can’t share liability.
Can we expect the fight over who is paying for the rescue to be shown here?
Be interesting to see who, or rather which government as all the organizations appear to be government funded, pays and what fraction of the total.
Well, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (2013) was not a complete failure: They did manage to discover two new species of bird: the East Antarctc Peacock and the Commonwealth Bay Turkey