Russian Sailors Trapped

500 sailors trapped in icy water off Russia's northern Pacific coast

Ice-breakers have been working to help free several ships trapped in the Sea of Okhotsk, off of Russia's northern Pacific coast.The Tass news agency reported that one ice-breaker wasn't enough to get the fishing trawler Mys Elizaveta away from ice as thick as two meters -- some six and a-half feet -- so a second was brought in to help free t...