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...July 24, the Maltese-flagged Arctic Sea reported that it had been boarded by gunmen posing as law-enforcement officers off the coast of Sweden and that its 15 Russian crew members had been tied up and beaten. Four days later, the ship - which was carrying a load of timber from Finland worth $1.84 million - sailed into the English Channel, where it made routine communications with British maritime authorities, who at the time were unaware of the hijacking. About 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Britain, the ship then slipped off the radar...
...According to Swedish police and the Maltese Maritime Authority (MMA), the Arctic Sea's crew reported that a group of eight to 12 men boarded at 3 a.m. on July 24, occupying the vessel for 12 hours. "During their stay onboard, the members of the crew were allegedly assaulted, tied, gagged and blindfolded, and some of them were seriously injured," says an MMA statement. According to CNN, since the crew at first believed they had been boarded by a genuine law-enforcement agency, no police complaint was made, and the Arctic Sea continued on its way. At one point...
...Thursday, Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, citing unnamed European Commission maritime officials, reported that following its attack in Swedish waters, the Arctic Sea sent a second set of radio messages saying it had again been hijacked after it passed through the English Channel, off the coast of Portugal. "Radio calls were apparently received from the ship which had supposedly been under attack twice, the first time off the Swedish coast and then off the Portuguese coast," a commission transport official told the Telegraph...
...tell many interesting and in some ways terrifying anecdotes about explorers and the troubles they ran into with cold. Are there any that stick out to you as your favorites? One of my favorite patterns that I think you can see in the Arctic explorers in the 1800s and early 1900s was a very dignified approach to everything they did, even in dying. They were oftentimes amazingly collected in the notes they left behind in their journals. [Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon] Scott is one of the better examples of that. On his return from the South Pole, he was only...
...Arctic explorer, as you point out, needs a phenomenal number of calories each day. Oh, 5,000 or 6,000 calories a day, sure. With the cold in the Arctic, you do have a really huge calorie need. Even just dug in and trying to survive, you would need probably 3,000-plus calories a day. (See pictures of frozen Greenland...