3 Chileans trapped in Antarctic crevasse

On Thursday rescue crews searched for three Chilean military officers trapped in a vehicle inside a 131-feet crevasse in Antarctica. The crews searched in freezing temperatures and steady snowfall. An eight-member Chilean army patrol vehicle plunged into the ice fissure during a mission Wednesday afternoon. One captain and two sergeants follwed the vehicle in, while five other officers managed to jump from the vehicle before it crashed. The four missing officers should be protected in the vehicle with enough food for two or three days, but the head of the army's Antarctic Command, Col. Miguel Santibanez said as time goes on things are more and more difficult. Chilean officals are making every effort to located the missing offficers. They maintain that the search will go on unti all persons are found. A related incident occured in Argentina on September 17th but the officers were never found.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/09/29/antarctic.rescue.ap/index.html