Dangerous ice conditions and accidents in Russian Arctic

Navigation conditions and ship accidents along Northern East Passage have not came out still enough despite the great interest to Russian Arctic and wide investigations published in Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), International Sea Route Program (INSROPE), International Standards Organization (ISO) documents and articles by T. Armstrong and W. Barr. The only rather full description of the seas had been printed in 1982 in Russian, but it did not include navigation aspect. Meanwhile for the modern operations in the northern seas both hydrocarbon production and transport it is very important to know natural environment and learn from the previous ice pilot experiences. In frame of PetroArctic project the information about Russian Arctic Seas and activities in the area has been gathered and shaped in form of double language (Russian-English) book. The physical environment and navigation in the Kara, Laptev, East Siberian and Chukchi seas are described. The half part of the work devotes to accidents induced by heavy ice conditions since 1900. 94 accidents (with detailed information for many) are under consideration and the classification is produced. It was possible to locate the accidents and create the maps shown the accidents place for all 4 seas. The main types of accidents are shipwreck, forced drift (ice jet as a special case), forced overwintering, damage of ship. There are complicated cases also. For example, the accident with a convoy of the icebreaker Lenin (1937—1938) began as wintering, but the ice field was torn off and the ships were taken out and drifted in the high sea, thus one ship was lost and many vessels have been damaged. The main reasons of shipwrecks and damages are hits of ice floes (often in rather calm ice conditions), ice nipping (compression) and drift.

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  http://www.poac.com/Papers/POAC11_1-79.zip
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  http://www.poac.com/PapersOnline.html
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of the International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering Under Arctic Conditions (POAC).
• Corporate Authors:

  Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions (POAC)

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• Authors:
  • Marchenko, Nataliya
• Conference:
  • 21st International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions (POAC'11)
  • Location: Montréal , Canada
  • Date: 2011-7-10 to 2011-7-14
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: POAC '11: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions
• Serial:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering Under Arctic Conditions
  • Publisher: Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions (POAC)
  • ISSN: 0376-6756
  • EISSN: 2077-7841
  • Serial URL: http://www.poac.com/PapersOnline.html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Hazards; Ice floes; Shipwrecks
• Geographic Terms: Arctic Ocean; Russia (Federation)
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01546134
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: POAC11-046
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 2 2014 9:29AM