article_snippet: The tradesman was flown by helicopter on Sunday and taken aboard, while a temporary pipeline was used to refuel the ship, which had to remain offshore due to a build-up of ice in the harbour.
article_snippet: the ice breaker vessel will negotiate about 100 nautical miles of ice before reaching open water to embark on the voyage of about two weeks back to Hobart.
article_snippet: People have been working around the clock to refuel the ice breaker vessel and People've been working in quite difficult conditions,' Australian Antarctic Division operations manager Robb Clifton said. '
article_snippet: Australian Antarctic Division operations manager Robb Clifton is in a serious but stable condition in the ice breaker vessel's medical bay and is being supported via tele-medicine by medical specialists in Hobart.
article_snippet: Australian Antarctic Division operations manager Robb Clifton said Australian Antarctic Division operations manager Robb Clifton had hoped the ice breaker vessel could begin the ice breaker vessel journey back to Hobart on Monday.
highlights_snippet: The tradesman was airlifted to the ice breaker vessel on Sunday .
  
highlights_snippet: the ice breaker vessel will negotiate 100 nautical miles of ice before reaching open water .
  