Through the Northern Sea Route by Stena Polaris: A logbook

Patrik Svahn ()
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A chapter in The Northern Sea Route, 2015, pp 69-88 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract When the Russian ice advisor Sergey and I arrived in Vardø, high up in north-eastern Norway, we were looking forward to finally embark on the Stena Polaris—a 65,000 dwt iceclassed tanker. With great excitement, we boarded the small boat that was to take us to the tanker that drifted some nautical miles from shore. We had been warned the previous evening that the weather forecast was quite bad, and we were unsure if we could embark. As we passed the breakwaters, we realized that the small boat could not handle the big waves well. When we saw the Stena Polaris vaguely in the horizon, we could already find that she was rolling quite heavily. After approximately 30 minutes of cutting through waves three to four meters high, we finally made it to the Stena Polaris, or so I believed, because the saltwater spray all over the boat’s windows barely enabled us to glimpse outside.

Keywords: Dark Cloud; Very High Frequency; Siberian Island; Fine Weather; Starboard Side (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-04081-9_5

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