REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Hold my vodka: Antarctica’s Russian ghost ship discovers warp drive

After uncovering Antarctic prospecting by Moscow’s Akademik Alexander Karpinsky, Daily Maverick’s probing questions may have prompted a bizarre and lightning-fast escape at 97 knots.

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