The Admiral Makarov and Krasin icebreakers resumed on Monday their efforts to tow the Bereg Nadezhdy refrigerator vessel toward clear waters, the Far Eastern Shipping Company said.
Company spokeswoman Tatyana Kulikova said the rescue effort resumed on Monday after it was postponed on January 20 due strong winds, low visibility and shifting ice floes.
The ships, which currently travel at a good speed, will have to cover about 38 miles to reach clear waters, she added.
The Bereg Nadezhdy ship, the Professor Kizevetter research vessel, and the Sodruzhestvo mother fishery ship, carrying over 400 people in total, got stuck in two-meter-thick ice in the Sea of Okhotsk on December 31. Two other ships, the Mys Yelizavety and the Anton Gurin, became trapped a few days later.
The Admiral Makarov released the Professor Kizevetter and the Mys Yelizavety vessels from the ice trap, while the Anton Gurin managed to cope on its own.
VLADIVOSTOK, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
