Hopes fade as missing Antarctic yacht's empty liferaft found

6:51 AM Fri 25 Feb 2011 GMT

'Berserk in Antarctica' .

Hopes are fading for three crew missing on yacht Berserk in Antarctica after searchers found the boat's only life raft damaged and covered in ice, but unoccupied. Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand said a raft spotted by helicopter was from the Berserk - 14m sailboat which had recently dropped two explorers on Antarctica on an expedition to reach the South Pole. The search is still underway for the steel-hulled boat which had a crew of five people - believed to be four Norwegians and one Briton - before it left the two explorers, including the skipper, in Antarctica, but water ...

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