I’ve recycled the photos from my May 2008 “On the Rocks” post, but the story is new.

Yes, the Kapitan Khlebnikov eco-tour icebreaker is once again stuck in polar ice — excuse me “rapidly disappearing polar ice.” This year, it happened off Antarctica.

But not to worry: I think we can safely assume the ship’s crew still includes a bartender:

Many of the passengers are Britons who paid more than STG10,000 ($A17,901.9) for a tour whose highlight was seeing emperor penguins on Snow Hill island, according to Exodus, a British tour operator.
Around 50 mostly British passengers booked their tours through Exodus and have been well cared-for while the ship has been stuck, Rob Dixon, a spokesman for Exodus, told AFP by telephone from London.
“There’s a lot of entertainment on board,” Dixon said. He said the weather was improving and predicted the ship would reach Ushaia by the end of this week, two or three days behind schedule.
“They’ve certainly seen the penguins they came to see,” Dixon added, noting that passengers had been able to leave the ship by helicopter.

A few more helicopter rides and maybe they can warm up things well enough to make way.