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The Sea Adventurer is a cruise ship sailing under the flag of the Bahamas .
history
The ship was built under the construction number 408 at the Brodogradilište Titovo shipyard in Kraljevica in Yugoslavia . The launch took place on April 19, 1975. The ship started up as Alla Tarasova for the Murmansk shipping company .
In 1997 the ship was sold to Clipper Cruise Line, which had it rebuilt in 1998 on the Fredericia Skibsværft and put it back into service as the Clipper Adventurer .
The ship is used by various providers for cruises in the polar regions and away from the sailing areas of the large cruise ships. An incident occurred in 2010 when the ship ran onto a rock on August 27 with 128 passengers and 69 crew members on board in the Coronation Gulf in Canada (67 ° 58.2 'N 112 ° 40.3' W). The passengers were picked up by the Canadian Coast Guard's Amundsen on August 29 and brought to Kugluktuk after attempts to free the ship failed. In September several attempts were made to pull the ship from the shoal with the help of tugs . This was finally achieved on September 13th with the help of four tugs. As a result, the damage to the hull of the ship was temporarily repaired before the ship was dried out in a shipyard in Gdansk and finally repaired. At the time of the accident, the ship was in charter with the Canadian cruise operator Adventure Canada on a cruise from Kangerlussuaq in Greenland to Kugluktuk in Canada.
The rock on which the ship ran had been known since 2007 and was published accordingly by the Canadian Hydrographic Service in a "Notice to Shipping". The rock was not shown on the nautical chart on board. Adventurer Partners, the shipowner of the ship, sued the Canadian state for at least 15 million US dollars in damages in 2011 because the rock the ship hit was not on the nautical chart and the Canadian authorities in charge had failed to authorize the shipping to warn. For its part, the Canadian state sued Adventurer Partners in 2012 for payment of nearly US $ 500,000 as compensation for the repair of the environmental damage caused by the ship's running aground.
Technical data and equipment
The ship is powered by two eight-cylinder - diesel engines of manufacturer B & W (8M35BF) each with 1,942 kW power driven. The engines, built under license in Yugoslavia, act on two variable pitch propellers . The cruising speed of the ship is around 12.5 knots .
Four generators , each with an output of 352 kW ( apparent power : 440 kVA ), are available for the power supply and are driven by four B&W Litostroj auxiliary motors (5T23HH, L23 / 30). A six-cylinder diesel engine from the manufacturer Saab (SDI-11) with an output of 240 kW (apparent output: 300 kVA) was installed as an emergency generator . The ship is equipped with a bow thruster with an output of 368 kW.
The ship has seven decks , four of which are accessible to passengers. The passenger cabins are distributed over all four decks. All cabins are outside cabins. 45 of the cabins are two-bed cabins, 15 cabins are three-bed cabins and one cabin is a four-bed cabin. There are 48 cabins available for crew members, of which 20 are single, 18 are two-bed, nine are three-bed and one is four-bed.
The ship is equipped with Zodiac inflatable boats, which make it possible to bring passengers ashore even in areas without appropriate infrastructure.
The hull of the ship is reinforced with ice ( ice class 1A).
literature
- EJ Stewart, J. Dawson: A Matter of Good Fortune? The Grounding of the Clipper Adventurer in the Northwest Passage, Arctic Canada. InfoNorth, Vol. 64, No. 2 (June 2011) ( PDF file , 1 MB)
Web links
- Information about the ship , Quark Expeditions
- Information about the ship , Zegram Expeditions
- Maritime Investigation Report M10H0006: Passenger Vessel Clipper Adventurer, Coronation Gulf, Nunavut, August 27, 2010 , Transportation Safety Board of Canada ( PDF file , 928 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c M / S Alla Tarasova , Fakta om Fartyg. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
- ^ Sea Adventurer ( Memento of July 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), FleetPro Ocean. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
- ↑ a b Jane George: TSB report on Clipper Adventurer grounding reveals broken equipment, questionable decisions , Nunatsiaq Online, April 27, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
- ↑ Jane George: Expert: Clipper Adventurer ran into a known hazard , Nunatsiaq Online, September 4, 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
- ^ Arctic cruise company sues over stranded ship , CBC News, July 13, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
- ^ Coast Guard seeks damages for Arctic cruise ship accident , CBC News, June 19, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2016.