Off the Wall – Scientists Trapped in Antarctica Plead For Help as Violence Breaks Out
( A real story, but it sounds eerily like a certain movie plot, doesn’t it? – DD)
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A group of South African scientists has pleaded for help, saying they are trapped in an isolated base on a cliff edge in Antarctica with a team member who has become violent.
One of the team has been accused of assault and threatening violence against his colleagues, according to the South African newspaper The Sunday Times. South Africa’s environment minister confirmed that an assault had taken place.
The overwintering team, a group that remains in a remote and extreme environment during winter months, knew that 10 of their 15 months at the base would be spent in isolation but may now be in danger from one of their own members, who has been accused of being mentally unstable.
Members will have undergone psychometric tests to ensure they could withstand the stress of this isolation but the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), which manages the South African National Antarctic Programme, now plans to retest them. (A little late? – DD)
South Africa’s isolated Sanae IV Antarctic base is cut off from the world for the next 10 months because of the winter weather.
A member of the overwintering team has reportedly sent an email to the South African government accusing another team member of physical and sexual assault.
“His behavior has become increasingly…
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