The Sea of Okhotsk lines the coast of Hokkaido Prefecture, the northernmost main island of Japan. Once again, the season of drift ice has arrived. The ice has traveled 1,000 kilometers from the ...

Hundreds of ice fishermen refused rescue while drifting out to sea. Authorities reported that 374 anglers stranded on a drifting slab of sea ice declined to be rescued because they did not want to ...

Welcome to Japan’s snow-capped wonderland. A unique natural phenomenon, known as drift ice, occurs each winter on the Sea of Okhotsk, on Hokkaido’s northern shores. Ice drifts southward from ...

Ice Floe In The Sea Of Okhotsk Carries 300 Russians Away 72. 12.02.2025, 21:00 42,272; A 20-kilometer crack tore it away from Sakhalin Island. In the south of Sakhalin Island, an ice floe tore away on ...

Russia's emergency services said on Wednesday that it had rescued all 139 fishermen stranded on an ice floe drifting in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Western Pacific. Skip to main content.

This is the moment a chunk of ice populated by ice fishers on the shores of Magadan, Russia in the Sea of Okhotsk suddenly separates and floats away on April 5. ... Massive crack appears under ice ...

MOSCOW — A Russian man rescued after 67 days adrift in a small inflatable boat in the Sea of Okhotsk described Wednesday how he survived by battling shivering cold and drinking rainwater.

Cruise ship rescues fishermen stranded at sea for 20 days 00:48. A Russian man was rescued in the stormy Sea of Okhotsk after surviving for more than two months in a tiny inflatable boat that lost ...

It did not name the survivor, but Russian news reports identified him as 46-year-old Mikhail Pichugin, who had set out in early August to watch whales in the Sea of Okhotsk together with his 49 ...

Authorities said the 374 anglers had been trapped on the ice after it broke off from Russia's eastern coast, drifting a kilometre out into the Sea of Okhotsk on February 28.