Sentences with phrase «icebreaker ship»

Researchers from Stokholm University have recently been plowing through the Laptev Sea in the icebreaker ship Oden, closely measuring the air and water around the East Siberian Arctic Ocean.

Recently, a Norwegian Coast Guard icebreaker ship took an interesting trip into the Arctic.

This is the largest ship thus far to navigate the Northwest Passage and is accompanied by an icebreaker ship and two helicopters.

Visit to Vladimir, Suzdal, including a choral performance and horse drawn sleigh ride, and Murmansk's Nuclear Icebreaker Ship Museum.

TCF - 1 is like an icebreaker ship that initially opens the ice (condensed, closed chromatin) and keeps a path available for other ships (other transcription factors that work in later stages of development) to steam through the now - open water (unwound chromatin).

She likens TCF - 1 to an icebreaker ship that initially opens the ice (condensed, closed chromatin) and keeps a path available for other ships (other transcription factors that work in later stages of development) to steam through the now - open water (unwound chromatin).

Not exact matches

An unsolicited bid to provide icebreakers and multi-purpose ships for the coast guard was submitted to government last month

«If an icebreaker is not available to clear a channel in the sea ice, fuel and cargo resupply ships may not be able to reach McMurdo Station,» reads the email from Raytheon Polar Services.

McMurdo was once serviced by U.S. icebreakers, but the country's fleet has dwindled to just one operational vessel, the research ship Healy.

An Antarctic blizzard has halted an Australian icebreaker's bid to reach a Russian ship trapped for a week with 74 people onboard, rescuers said on Monday.

In the 1950s, nuclear power began to be used for commercial electricity generation as well as to drive submarines, navy ships and icebreakers, and people spoke glowingly of future nuclear - powered trains and aircraft.

As the planet warms and more ships enter Arctic and Antarctic waters, the Coast Guard hopes to finally break the deep freeze on new icebreakers and lead the way.

To help scientific and other craft navigate these frozen waters, the U.S. Coast Guard employs a small fleet of icebreakers — powerful ships with reinforced hulls that clear the way for other vessels.

That is when mammoth icebreakers like the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star arrive in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound as part of Operation Deep Freeze to open up the shipping lanes needed to resupply the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station and other facilities on Ross Island.

One especially promising route could be the northeast passage, a shipping lane along the north coast of Russia from the Barents to the Bering Seas, now regularly plied by Russian ships and icebreakers.

This summer, the Northeast Passage along the Russian coast could be used without the need for icebreakers, and many ships also used the Northwest Passage,» says Gunnar Spreen from the University of Bremen's Institute of Environmental Physics.

The Northeast Passage was traversable for ships without the need for icebreakers.

The red and white icebreakers used include the Royal Research Ship Ernest Shackleton and the Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross.The British Antarctic Survey also uses the Royal Navy's ship, HMS ProtecShip Ernest Shackleton and the Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross.The British Antarctic Survey also uses the Royal Navy's ship, HMS ProtecShip James Clark Ross.The British Antarctic Survey also uses the Royal Navy's ship, HMS Protecship, HMS Protector.

The old ship had been built during or just before the First World War, and was one of the finest steel icebreakers ever constructed.

Perhaps the poor planning here was that the ship itself was not an icebreaker.

In 1970, Canadian politicians expressed alarm that the United States was going to bolster its icebreaker fleet, presumably to aid American ships in such transits.

To get an idea of why it's important to have icebreakers even in a warming world, review our 2005 series, «The Big Melt» and the series of posts here last year on Arctic shipping efforts.

Company officials told me over the weekend that the ships were poised to transit the Bering Strait, enter icy waters and meet up with Russian icebreakers.

Icebreakers are not war ships that can only break «national ice».

Early this morning, I received an e-mail message from one of many polar scientists whose important and costly field research in Antarctica has been seriously disrupted by the diversion of icebreakers to try to evacuate the journalists, tourists, crew and scientists on an unessential «expedition» aboard a chartered Russian ship.

Some fresh background placing this voyage in context has come from Lawson W. Brigham, a retired captain of one of America's aging polar icebreakers and lead author of an important report on Arctic shipping trends and issues, the Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment.

It's important to keep such commerce, carried out by specialized ships serving special markets, in perspective, as Lawson Brigham, a former icebreaker captain and professor of Arctic policy at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, wrote recently in Foreign Policy.

High freeboard make these ships appear as sails in the wind, vulnerable to cross winds that would make them very hard to control in gales in the small confines of an icebreakers» wake; little wiggle room to maneuver.

[11] Before the advent of modern icebreakers, ships sailing the Arctic Ocean risked being trapped or crushed by sea ice (although the Baychimo drifted through the Arctic Ocean untended for decades despite these hazards).

This new international consortium, consisting of 15 partners from 13 different countries, will support planning and implementation of Arctic research cruises by better coordinating the existing icebreaker fleet, allowing researchers to compete for fully - funded ship time, and collaborating with commercial vessels to increase Arctic data collection.

Furthermore, many ships still need an icebreaker escort in the summer.

29 July: KATU: 13 demonstrators hang from Portland bridge to block Shell ship «They are creating a human barricade so that the Shell icebreaker can not get through,» said Annie Leonard, the executive director of Greenpeace U.S. «They are prepared to stay up there for days because that's what it is going to take to save the arctic.»

More recently, icebreakers and ice - strengthened ships have on occasion traversed the normally ice - choked route.

Early Thursday morning, the Shell Oil icebreaker MSV Fennica moved out of dry dock, environmental activists and protesters pinched the Willamette River's shipping channel and Portland police closed traffic across the St. Johns Bridge.

And if BC nixes the Northern Gateway pipeline — quite possible — then it is likely that a pipeline will be constructed to Churchill, MB — with tanker shipping using icebreakers to create a six - month season thru Hudson Bay.

My favorite of the fake news is the ship that navigated the Arctic «without an icebreaker».