Brazil opened a research station in 1984, but it was largely destroyed by a fire that killed two members of the navy in 2012, the same year that a diesel-laden Brazilian barge sank near the base.
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But the steel shells of hundreds of the ships cracked in the icy north Atlantic, and 12 broke in half and sank.