Trimaran inquiry
The inquiry into the ordeal of four University of Canterbury students who spent five days last week drifting around McMurdo Sound on ice floes is not expected to L- completed until December 18, said the superintendent of the D.S.I.R.’s Antarctic division (Mr R. B. Thomson) yesterday. Yesterday Mr Thomson heard a first-hand account of how the men—members of the university’s Antarctic biology unit at Cape Bird—got into their predicament, which resulted in a search involving the aircraft of three nations and taking 40 hours of flying time. Having recorded the evidence of the four men— Messrs J. K. Lowry, G. D. Fenwick, P. M. Sager, and R. W. Farrelly—Mr Thomson will leave this morning for Scott Base where he will continue the inquiry in consultation with the leader of the New Zealand team (Major P. G. Frazer). Once the findings are known Mr Thomson expects that certain recommendations will be made to ensure that similar incidents do not recur.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33094, 8 December 1972, Page 12
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