Russia's emergency services rescued 675 fishermen today from a huge sheet of ice drifting out to sea.About half were picked up by helicopters and the others by boat in a remote part of the country's far east.
None of the rescued ice fishermen required medical treatment, the emergency services on Sakhalin Island said.
The emergency services said it received a report at midday today that an ice floe was drifting into the Sea of Okhotsk with hundreds of fishermen on it.
More than six hours later, all had been rescued. Read More
