Akademik Shokalskiy

Akademik Shokalskiy

Akademik Shokalskiy in the port of Ushuaia

Ship data flag  Russia Soviet Union   Ship type built as a research ship , e.g. Z. cruise ship class Akademik Shuleykin class → renamed (Polar Pioneer) Callsign UBNF home port Vladivostok Owner Far Eastern Research Shipyard Oy Laivateollisuus Ab , Turku Finland Build number 343 Keel laying November 2nd 1981 Commissioning October 30, 1982 Whereabouts in service

Ship dimensions and crew length 71.06 m ( Lüa ) width 12.82 m Side height 6.45 m Draft Max. 4.50 m measurement 1,764 GT / 529 NRZ   crew 24

Machine system machine Diesel-mechanical 2 × diesel engines (Sudovye Dizeli 6ChRN 36/45), each 1,147 kW Machine performance 2,294 kW (3,119 hp) Top speed 14 kn (26 km / h) propeller 1 × 4-blade controllable pitch propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 620 dw Permitted number of passengers 68

Others Classifications Russian Maritime Register of Shipping Registration numbers IMO no. 8010336

The Akademik Shokalskiy ( Russian Академик Шокальский ) built in Finland in 1982 is an ice-reinforced ( ice class UL / 1A Super) cruise ship of the Akademik Shuleykin class , named after the Russian oceanographer and academician Juli Michailowitsch Schokalski .

construction

The Akademik Shokalskiy has a conventional machine system in which two six-cylinder diesel engines act on a controllable pitch propeller via a gearbox . To stabilize the ship is equipped with an antiroll tanks equipped.

The ship has 28 outside cabins with different equipment on three passenger decks as well as a dining room, bar and library.

Sister ships of the Akademik Shokalskiy are Akademik Shuleykin , Professor Multanovskiy , Arnold Veimer , Professor Molchanov , Akademik Gamburtsyev , geologist Dmitriy Nalivkin , Professor Polshkov , Akademik Golitsyn and Professor Khromov .

history

The Akademik Shokalskiy was originally used in marine research . After several renovations and modernization measures, she is mainly used as a cruise ship in the Antarctic .

Incidents

On December 8, 2013, the ship left the port of Bluff in New Zealand with 74 people on board, including 26 tourists, to follow the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson , which took place a hundred years earlier. The ship was in Commonwealth Bay and was already on its way back when the weather suddenly changed on December 24th and sharp easterly winds drove thick ice into the bay, whereupon the ship was 2800 kilometers south of Hobart from the ice on December 25th was included.

The Akademik Shokalskiy rushed that are stored in the region icebreaker Xue Long , Aurora Australis and the French L'Astrolabe to help. The Xue Long made the first rescue attempt. For safety reasons, she had to break it off on December 28, only six and a half nautical miles from the Akademik Shokalskiy , as the ice cover was too thick. The next rescue attempt also failed: When the Aurora Australis came within ten nautical miles of the Akademik Shokalskiy , it too had to abort its rescue attempt due to a snow storm, as it would have been too dangerous to continue. From January 2, 2014, the Xue Long's Kamow Ka-32 helicopter flew to the trapped ship and brought the passengers in groups on board the Aurora Australis to return to Australia. On January 3, 2014, the Xue Long reported that she is now stuck herself and that the Aurora Australis should be ready for an aid mission nearby. This further delayed the return journey of the passengers of the Akademik Shokalskiy . On the morning of January 5, 2014 the icebreaker left Polar Star of the United States Coast Guard of Sydney Harbor, to free the trapped ships.

On January 7, 2014, it was reported that both ships were no longer stuck after the wind had turned and crevasses formed in the ice. The Akademik Shokalskiy then returned to New Zealand. The incident is attributed to organizational deficiencies and communication difficulties.

Web links

Commons : Akademik Shokalskiy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian Maritime Register of Shipping: Register overview. Retrieved October 10, 2011 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Russian Maritime Register of Shipping: Technical and administrative data of the Akademik Shokalskiy . Retrieved October 10, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Akademik Shokalskiy. In: ExpeditionsOnline.com. Retrieved December 21, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Russian Maritime Register of Shipping: Technical and administrative data of the Polar Pioneer . Retrieved October 10, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Frank Patalong: Commercial Polar Tour: Antarctic Crusaders Stuck in Ice , Der Spiegel, December 25, 2013.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Operation in the Antarctic: Icebreaker “Snow Dragon” fails with rescue attempt , Der Spiegel, December 28, 2013, accessed on December 28, 2013.
7. ↑ "Shokalskiy" remains trapped in the ice ( memento from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de, December 28, 2013, accessed on December 31, 2013.
8. ↑ Desperate rescue attempt in the Antarctic - passengers must continue to worry , Focus Online, December 28, 2013, accessed on December 28, 2013.
9. ↑ Helicopter instead of icebreaker ( memento from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de, December 30, 2013, accessed on December 31, 2013.
10. ↑ tagesschau.de : Rescue mission for "Akademik Shokalskiy": "The helicopter is here". January 2, 2014, archived from the original on January 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 2, 2014 . 
11. ↑ Rainer Leurs: Rescue operation in the Antarctic: icebreaker “Snow Dragon” is now stuck itself. In: Spiegel Online. January 3, 2014, accessed January 10, 2014 . 
12. ↑ US icebreaker to rescue 2 ships in Antarctica , The Washington Post , January 5, 2014 ( Memento from January 5, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
13. ↑ Ships and men are freed from the ice , welt.de , January 7, 2014
14. ↑ Communication interruption on board the Akademik Shokalskiy responsible, on independent.co.uk from January 22, 2014 , accessed on October 9, 2015.