the captain and the first officer said here they don't like holes in their bread this is it i have to put more bread out because the navigators sit here and they eat a lot. and see. the possibly the most unlike the tables to be played properly he likes everything to be good and he likes beautiful women actually he just loves old women too. just like all men like. i should know what. the floors icy cold and my feet are cold. on everyone here where something warm on their feet they would just freeze. yes it is cold here we are in the arctic.

this ice breaker was purpose built for the arctic. to. crush it. which squeezes the ice crushing it beneath the vessels weight the propellers are designed for speed but when the need arises the time can reach the quite respectable speed of nineteen. she makes an impressive sight of sea. quickly to lend assistance. a russian military fleet is heading along the northern sea route there approaching a tough area and several ice breakers will be needed to clear a path for the fast flotilla. with. insight now. captain show me the charts and up to the north of. the northern land is so much ice that if the wind which it would quickly drift towards us with blocking the

way. on the surface life on this ship may seem like any other as you'd expect the crew works establish shifts for hours with no rest days each crew member has designated station. keeping the ship systems at peak performance but there's one very big difference. this looks like a fairly simple ship really she's not symbol of all. the time here is a quick with a reacts and a very complex security system. only a handful of people have access to this room and even they have to wear special clothing and footwear. it's the nuclear reactor that provides the ship with its enormous power thanks to this power plant but the vessel has no need to pull into port for refueling. the

nuclear fuel is only replenished once every five years. to the calls of starting up the ice breaker which includes checking the reactor system takes about a week it's a lot more tricky than starting a car. and you can't shut it down that easily either each and every system needs to be started separately of course. on the inside the ship is massive easily equal to a large seven story building the newcomer could easily get lost in the enormous leverage leading to the engine room. i would say for twenty three years everyone cheats this shit with respect because she's the one who puts the bread on our tables ask anyone aboard even their wives and we were sure that we've always been considered the navy's elite because the training is very tough and it's hard to get your foot in the door here it is on top of that the exams are extremely difficult as well examine the things that. dimitri is new to the nuclear navy he's

preparing to apply for the position of fourth aleck trickle officer. if he's to get that first appointment he'll have to pass series of exams there are two applicants competing for the job and the quickest is the winner dimitri is determined to be the fastest and be the first apostles exams just as it is now i'm in charge of everything to do with nuclear safety radiation safety is another department's responsibility of every tiny detail is laid down here nuclear safety is a very serious business and we have special guidance to follow it's quite a thick book. the crew is getting ready for a long covering the southern shoals of the arctic ocean. the channel through the current gates that connects the seas this is the official

start of the northern sea route. the car route is a reference point it's where the tour begins and ends. at. the cairo gates after them it counts for nothing. but it was twenty two years ago in august that i started work here. and i wanted to get married at some point be my first tour was on the by god. and i met a guy there they warned me love only lasts until the car gates then he'll forget you but he didn't. get blasted up to the gates and beyond. if you

got in and all the way back. and that's. one two three four five six. the time you finally catches up with the fleet in the . military ships have been given a special task in the arctic but there's nothing but thick ice between them and their destination. provide the only means for such a low level convoy to cross the street. and you just the position we can take your place or maneuver between will it just come alongside or approach i just five degrees. slow down.

into the wake of ok into the wake. central control room ridge lower it to ten percent. joined the fleet at four and took its place in the convoy. presence from the icebreaker. chris. this is. greetings from the line. thanks. provides a unique opportunity to see all of russia's nuclear powered ships together. and call them big red. lights fifty years of victory is one of the most powerful ships in the world it can take us three meters while the. a smaller and even leave the fleet into frozen siberian river rescuers.

when i was at school we had a fifth grade i guess they told us about the first nuclear powered ice. because the lead and as i sat there listening i thought my god all of these guys are real heroes as is their fantastic. legend and i could never even help with thought that i myself might be just as fantastic a real hero like them. the first nuclear powered icebreaker was commissioned in the one nine hundred fifty nine the whole world was talking about the u.s. making the atoms of mankind the phrase atom for peace became a popular expression. skeptics jokes that the soviet union was obsessed and even wanted. planes and ships. know how to be staged without the nuclear powered russian icebreaker fleet they've proved themselves extremely reliable in all the years they've been in service. a single nuclear accident a normal one of them ever failed to complete an assignment. we shouldn't cross the

line and come any closer it should maintain distance it may look as though the ships are crossing clear water but in fact the ice breakers are driving many tons of ice from the pumps with an ingenious device known as a new message washing system. it's no easy task never gave this many ships through so much ice. normally there are no more than two ships. now leading a total of fourteen. ships just didn't i was supposed to be aboard the vygotsky the ship behind us. and it's about my daughter was born in july and i thought i should take a break so i took a vacation and now i'm catching up on the most important thing is that my wife understands that i have to go to sea and doesn't worry i'm. here again to look at beautiful it is. the ship behind us. or if you're lucky you get to see it

from the bridge all the time. i chose this job as a child. timer. good day lunch is served whatever teach everyone. today along with the yellow bike i teach and fifty years icebreaker. we will continue to leave the beach in the russian navy ships. we're currently in the lead up to its feet twenty miles will be overcome for most of that private island. totally nonsense because it is a market economy and it's the total budget of the european union but we are talking

about more than one percent of the cheating. the total budget is about the size of the. call the social. welfare states on the national level this is totally ridiculous what. are so ridiculous about the e.u. marching in more or less to greece and to cyprus to study tiddly socialist communist i would say to talk about reading people's private bank towns. and this is what they're talking about people of falling over themselves immigrants are falling over themselves to get into great britain because they know the rest of europe is. we can't know if they're going to. choose if they. choose to stories that in life

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sank i and the rest because i think the case he'll be every week on a. plane . well. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. command selection turd nine zero degrees. it's interesting. dimitri hopes the first officer will tell him exactly what tests he needs to pass but no it seems is not the time to ask. there's

a big block to your right near the entrance forward will shift and return. understood. the gators each trip is a new first time. changes dramatically in just a few the ice will never remain the same for more than a few minutes. something else to consider you can see strips of ice now but if a southerly wind blows they will vanish but if we get a northerly wind blowing through here. on the fleet. that it's almost impossible even to make the lights on the ship in front.

of. visibility was absolutely fine. maintaining convoy formation at such close distances three why some fog is a major challenge. the ships are surrounded by so much ice that the radar display looks quite blank every crew member needs to concentrate. regular event in autumn new ice has already begun to appear and that always means fog. oh this is it we're laying the table for dinner and there is a lot of work to do you we're constantly on the go because if you take a break and sit down to chat even for five minutes you'll be late so we just can't do it. despite the fog and two meters of ice the crew maintains a regular shed you will. learn i was cleaning me in

a day when she heard her favorite song so she stopped what she was doing and went to listen to the music. i write i gotta go no sit sit look at or look she's wearing a red dress. if the first officer sees as he is hanging from the mast i'm kidding. the ice breaker lead the military convoy for almost four days the toughest stages behind them will be clear water until all the way to the new siberian islands. i breaker captain we've undertaken a unique operation perhaps the first of its kind in russian naval history

every one of the russian federation nuclear power to ships was involved i wish to express my gratitude to the ice breaker crew and wish you luck and safe passage in this region turn right course one hundred zero degrees by course one eight zero . the ice breakers peel away and leave the sleaze behind an elder of other ships waiting for the help. we have and head back to the hundred ninth meridian all the other ships from the east will of arrived by the time we get there and we'll run back and forth again. when the ship is alone and. the crew usually try to organize a variety of tasks that involve every seaman aboard today there are rumors of

a training drill after lunch. starting soon push you don't get in position. work can get quite extreme around here. the notice board informs each crew member where they can find their allocated lifeboat seat. which is my life boat one which phone number is yours twenty one let's look it up. there won't be a drill today look. you know it's there i'm breaking all the rules i've let my station early. goes they're saying there's no drill it's cancelled was that a joke in the end it was a. aboard the icebreakers jokingly referred to as news from the abbreviated while was what one woman said. dimitri is

confident that he's no well prepared he wants to pass the exams first and has already spoken to the first officer about sitting the test tomorrow was not all yours some of his on. and official policy yes i got you thank you. you're welcome you say. much the same. thing the changes of the ships trailing in its wake good day duty officer to central control room where discarding the tanker. which will take approximately one more day other than that no other news have a safe shift understood. dimitri has passed his test with flying colors but he'll take up his new post in a matter of days. but becomes

almost completely free of ice making it the busiest time of the year. we covered the whole lane across the arctic and there was no ice anywhere but if it's just one bloke it's. a good move on without. an across the arctic is much more. to be done in the. works for us and. europe. is much quicker than the best. twenty two days to reach. forty days making the. crew and fuel costs. of using the north sea with. technologies

advancing the climate is changing and. becoming more expensive but. very differently. everything. with domestic problems life is very different here my wife and i were. if i've only spent fourteen at home i missed those years i spent at sea i didn't play a part in bringing out my children one time i came home and they were small and next they were grown ups when i worked in the far east i used to bring back clothes and things boots for example for my eldest daughter and when i got home it turned out they were already too small so next time i brought bigger ones but by the time i got home they were too small as well. and i've had enough of the sea in the arctic. that it's been a most from thirty five years here just like they're going to single needle soon as

i first saw my sunny year and a half after he was born and going to do the annual no i wasn't there when my wife left the maternity home laughed at any of our children by the son or daughter with the other yes we're turning around to go and help the nordic she's damaged. yes. the nordics leaky is above the water line but still leaving it in ice might be dangerous the ice breaker receives a new water to leap the stricken vessel into clear water. nordic stand by to morrow. daily by. the seamen who sailed east know the most latitude to happy knowing that if they're ever in trouble in the arctic sea ice breakers are there to help. when he's hard to get through the ice break a sail has come to get you off the trouble. list it's about. listen to the soloist

. mighty good luck or a run. down. you beat your own money for the number three just get got to be nice there's. no. money up ownership. marketed done. a lot of. the nordic has safely be discarded through the ice. no she's able to make her own way to a safe harbor. you know go big which is good there's nothing in ventris about cell work it's mostly rich seeing them. but this

can we do the same things and almost never come ashore. which is a pity because it would feel great so walk on the ground again. want to go digging their way to mobile bay after spending all this time and see them. at the center of the northern sea route but no one can go ashore. with. much to be done. to transfer. from the time. to. three months. of food. because it's. just as many. perishable food that they need. and then ships that are just put to sea will

deliver fresh fruit and vegetables. watch out careful. paris. oranges are fine but not. when they'll be able to go home next. because i've just been on vacation. and. it's. just a bit like groundhog day. but she has. been everywhere. we have.

always wanted to take. the east. the fleet is waiting for them on the ice border. for. fear of her we followed you and your daughter without your critical to the speed of. the northernmost town of russia across the straits lies america and the other hemisphere. the crew has just two hours to wall cone song land as evening descends on the ten it's still early morning aboard the five there's an eight zero time difference because the ship remains on hope post time to morrow she'll sailed west . yet another fleet awaits safe passage through the ice.

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