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Shows the intention on the crew's part which will go back to the training. we need to find out where the captain was at the time the call was made. to be fair to him we have to know if the captain was on the bridge at that time. i hasn't had a time line so i can't say but disheartening especially when a young boy, makes an emergency call over a seasoned captain. >> is there a procedure for calling authorities? i read that it's the captain in terms of the ship personnel, the captain has to make the distress call, is that true. >> generally that's true. the captain will put the distress call. it...

Sears. >> i'm glad you wrote the piece. thank you, thank you. thank you. you can read l.z.'s full column. go to cnn.com/opinion. 52 passengers from that ship stranded in the antarctic are headed home as i speak. a helicopter ferried them to an australian icebreaker today. first they found time to thank everyone who followed their misadventure for the past couple days. take a look. >> the helicopter to take us home. thanks, everyone. >> chinese helicopter hemmed rescue them from the ship where they had been stranded the past ten days. but they left behind 22 russian crew members. they still h...

Celebrated the rescue with not one, we're told two dinners and chief mate robert joins me now by phone. and robert, so i'm getting this correctly. you are somewhere in an ocean on the ship with these rescued folks, yes? >> that's correct. they're in heavy packed ice, trying to get into open water right now. >> so where were you earlier today when this helicopter finally swooped in and rescued these people? >> it took six helicopter flights, a round trip of about 35 miles. and i was working on the bridge and working on deck at the time. >> and so it was this australian ice icebreaker that helpe...