Longer journey, more money, hose fault was that?

The astonishing oversight — it is a very long hose — is to add 3,000 kilometers to the journey and over 500,000 Australian dollars ($460,000) to the bill, Australia's AAP news agency reported from Hobart, Tasmania. "It was a critical piece of equipment that was required but it was inadvertently left behind," an Australian Antarctic Division spokeswoman admitted. "The ship will go to Davis, then return to Hobart to load the missing cargo and then go back down to Macquarie Island."