Couple this with the facts that other research vessels were trapped in Arctic ice in 2017 and earlier you would think folks might learn from previous happenings, but apparently not.
The research and expedition ship Mikhail Somov stuck in the ice in the Vilkitsky Strait Where are the 'rapidly warming winters' this time around? It seems global warming is behaving badly, in parts of the Arctic at least.
Something is very wrong with the Arctic. Instead of melting as predicted by the IPCC it continues to capture ships.
The latest includes more than two dozen cargo vessels that got stuck in Russia's Arctic ice and had to wait for ice-breakers to come to their rescue, after an inaccurate forecast for the country's Met Office. Shipping firms blamed the Russian Met office for a forecast that failed to predict the early ice. 1