Two Giant Icebergs May Be Threat To 350 Ships Of Argentine Fishing Fleet

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Buenos Aires, (EFE). – Two huge icebergs that broke off the Antarctic ice pack are posing a risk for some 350 ships in the South Atlantic, most of them fishing boats working in the Argentine Sea, the coast guard announced here on Thursday.

“The risk is greater” for about 30 fishing boats operating in the Atlantic Ocean off the southern coast of Buenos Aires province, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) from the capital, authorities said.

The icebergs were detected on Wednesday and “should be arriving in the area of southern Brazil in 10 or 15 days,” the head of the coast guard, Osvaldo Aguirre, told Mitre radio in Buenos Aires.

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Other officials with the coast guard told EFE on Thursday that at the beginning of the 1990s a huge iceberg floated from Antarctica to southern Brazil, where it finally melted. EFE

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http://www.thedailyjournalonline.com/article.asp?ArticleId=215974&CategoryId=14093

[Caution]

1. Why not install GPS tracking devices on the icebergs?

This would allow for exact positioning and tracking of the icebergs in relation to the fleet. I'm sure this isn't easy to do but it's better than having one of these suckers smash into a boat.

[maxsolomon]

2. gee that's too bad

the sea won't be unsustainably raped for a couple weeks.

[gulfcoastliberal]

3. My thoughts exactly.

Hope the boats all get holed. But don't wish any harm on the fisherman.