A Russian fishing vessel, the Sparta, is trapped in heavy ice after it received a hole in the hull near the shores of Antarctica, Alexander Savelyev, a spokesman for the Russian Agency for Fisheries, said on Friday. “The vessel received a hole in the hull below the waterline… The captain of the vessel made a [...]
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December 16, 2011
September 24, 2011
Russian icebreaker helps set up new drifting polar station
A Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker has arrived in the Arctic to help Russian polar explorers set up a new drifting station, RIA Novosti correspondent reported. The Rossiya icebreaker arrived on Saturday at the location of the current SP-38 polar station, where the scientists are dismantling equipment and preparing their mobile polar huts for a transfer to [...]
