Drill ship adrift again after towlines break

Published December 31, 2012 2:55am ET



ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Shell drill ship stranded by a fierce storm in the Gulf of Alaska was drifting again Sunday after it broke from lines attaching it to two towing vessels.

The lines attaching the drill ship Kulluk to the vessels Aiviq and Nanuq broke Sunday afternoon, Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said.

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