Part of bridge of YURY TOPCHEVYURY TOPCHEV, is estimated as one of the largest diesel-powered icebreakers in the world and can operate at minus fifty degrees. They can run through the 80 cm thick ice in ten knots without a problem and can just as easily turn the ship 180 degrees. If the ice is too thick, remove the propeller over and crushes ice.
The hull was built in Ukraine and it has gone by 3.5 thousand tons of steel. Compared to a ship of similar size is it about two thousand tons of steel. The vessel has a total cost of NOK 500 million.
Icebreakers that are more powerful than these ships are nuclear powered. YURY TOPCHEV is originally an ice-breaking supply boats, with additional functions. The vessel can be used as oil rescue vessels, tug boats and fire with his Fi-Fi system, and is also a sailing high voltage electric power plants.
The vessel will be working on Prirazlomnoye oil field in the Barents Sea, located south of Novaya Zemla a distance of 60 km from shore. The field was discovered in 1989. It is said that the field is free of ice 110 days a year and that the worst is ice 1.7 meters. The average temperature is around -4 ¡C and the temperature is -50 degrees on the coldest. Wind strength reaches 40 m / s, and wave height can be up to 12 meters.
The vessel was Named in Aalesund, November 15. 2006. She has imo: 9338230
Photo was taken, November 16. 2006
Picture added on 02 September 2010 at 08:44
