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The news Tuesday morning from the stranded ship in the Antarctic is that it's looking more and more like icebreakers won't be able to reach the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, so the passengers and some of the crew are preparing to be plucked off the ice by helicopter.

There's fresh video of the intrepid explorers singing and stomping on the ice as they try to flatten out something of a landing pad. It's hoped that a helicopter will arrive from a Chinese icebreaker that's in open water not too far away.