What's their excuse?

They believed their own hype:
"Here, stark white landscapes framed by towering rock faces and icebergs on a colossal scale slide by noiselessly as you navigate some of the most beautiful waterways in the world."--GAP Adventures

"I heard about this global warming thing!" -?

news report:
Guillermo Tarapow, captain of an Argentine navy icebreaker, Almirante Irizar,. . . said he thought the dangers of castoff Antarctic ice to shipping were on the rise. Tarapow. . . . said he has seen a dramatic increase in the number of icebergs over 20 years and blamed climate change. "You now see many more icebergs ... where there didn't use to be. It makes navigation difficult and they are all very dangerous."

Sure it's got a few problems but it has a sharp paint job and is only partially capsized. All in all not a bad looking boat.
Trust you guys to see the "glass half empty."

OK, I don't get the comment from the Argentine captain. What does an increase in frequency of icebergs (true or not) have to do with the fate of a ship that is specifically commissioned to find icebergs and sail past them for the amusement of its customers?

I wonder if the band played "Near, My God Too Thee".

You said it: The ship was designed to sail PAST icebergs but the higher incidence of bergs makes it more likely that the ship would sail INTO an iceberg and so do its Titanic imitation. Bottoms up!

Shipping, shipping, shipping, and narry a place to ship.

Does it take an iceberg these days to have a proper bidet? Bidet who, you ask? Bidet Bardo where global warming took place on the deck of a yacht with heavy breathing.

Has anyone seriously looked into the impact heavy breathing has on global warming? I didn't think so. If we are going to survive this people are going to have to discontinue the disgusting habit of bombing the bidet, proceeded by heavy breathing. How does one warn people of such things? It isn't as if the ship needed to be listing. There are people who, to this day, do not believe that heavy breathing changes a thing.

I'll have an iceberg martini and drink to evolution, because without it we wouldn't make people. It would be the daily routine of poisoning the environment and taking odds on how long we have to survive. I'm guessing, but I do not want to depress humans over sixty-five years of age.

It wasn't an icebreaker, had only a single hull and shouldn't have been in either the arctic or antarctic, both of which it regularly traversed (along with the Amazon River) before its overdue demise. I'm surprised that a boat with a keel that flat would even be rated (or insured) for arctic/cross-ocean transit. If this is what happened to it in calm waters, what was it supposed to do in a storm?

slim: Damn good points. (and I thought I was sailor, with years on rust buckets)