The ice floe with stranded fishermen on them slowly drifted further away from the land at the Mordvinov's Bay. In a nearly seven-hour operation, Russia's emergency services rescued 536 ice fishermen after they got stranded on a giant ice floe that broke off the island of Sakhalin in eastern Siberia, officials said. It's the third time in a week that emergency services in the Sakhalin region had to rescue ice fishermen stuck on drifting glacial masses. On January 22, around 300 people got stranded on an ice floe and on Sunday 600 others did. Local authorities blamed the fishermen for ignoring safety warnings and going ice fishing despite the danger of being stranded on ice floes.

Source: Stuff January 29, 2020 22:07 UTC