but. simply it has ruined my hair no. ah. the captain and the first officer said here they don't like holes in their bread. i have to put more bread out because the navigators sit here and they eat a lot. of the possibly the most unlike the tables to be laid properly he likes everything to be good and he likes beautiful women actually he just loves old women. just like all men like pies with this cabbage but. i should know what i now. the floors icy cold and my feet are cold too. on everyone here where something warm on their feet because they would just freeze on the weiss yes it is cold here

and then we are in the arctic. this ice breaker was purpose built for the arctic. the heavy pack ice would crush it a shaped hole which squeezes the ice crushing it beneath the vessels weight. the propellers are designed for speed but when the need arises the time you can reach the quite respectable speed of nineteen. she makes an impressive sight of sea. moves 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. there may be no ice in sight now but the captain showed me the charts and up to the north of the seven the northern land

is so much ice that if the wind what's changed. but there's a very big difference. this looks like a fairly simple ship really she's not symbol of all. the time here is equipped 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 what starting up the ice breaker which includes checking the reactor system takes about a week it's a lot more tricky in starting a car about it till it was letting us know 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've worked here for twenty three years everyone cheats this shit with respect because she's the one who puts the bread in our tables ask anyone aboard even their wives which of us 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 and there's on top of that the exams are extremely difficult as well examine those 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 a series of exams there are two applicants competing for the job and the quickest is the winner dimitri is determined to be the fastest been be the first apostles exams because if not 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 current barren 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 all nancy all day kyra 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. it and all the way back. one two three four five six. finally catches up with the fleet in the. military ships have been given a special task in the arctic but there's nothing between them and their destination . provide the only means for such a long naval convoy to cross the strait. and you just the position we can take your place or maneuver between will it just come alongside your 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. and took its place in the convoy. presence from the icebreaker. chris. this is. from the line. thanks. to see all of russia's nuclear powered ships together. 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 lead 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 because they are fantastic. and i could never even have 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 of the soviet union was obsessed and even wanted to fit atomic engines into planes and ships. no objects position can 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 and no one of them ever failed to complete an assignment. we shouldn't cross the line. 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. is no easy task never getting this many ships through so much ice. normally there are no more than two ships. 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 a beautiful it is. a ship behind us. if you're lucky you get to see it from the bridge all the time. i chose this job as a child. time on eleven thirty good day. one of the teach everyone. today along with the yellow by judge and fifty years of picturing icebreaker. we will continue to leave each of ten russian navy ships. with currently in the left of sea twenty miles off east of the come for most of that stuff that island.

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you know you made so much worse nine zero degrees. it's interesting we've roger. the dimitri hopes the first officer will tell him exactly what tests he needs to pass but now it seems is not the time to ask. if there's a big block to your right near the entrance he's forward will shift and return. understood. for 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. there's 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. the fleet so thick that it's almost impossible even to make the lights on the ship in front. of. the. visibility was absolutely fine. maintaining convoy formation at such close distances through 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 wake 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. right i gotta go no sit sit look at her look she's wearing a red dress. even if the first officer sees as he'll hang me from the mast i'm getting.

the icebreaker led the military convoy for almost four days the toughest stages behind them will be clear water now all the way to the new siberian islands. i should break or catch him we've undertaken a unique operation perhaps the first of its kind in russian naval history every one of the russian federation in its 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 he's asleep behind

an elder of other ships waiting for the helm. we escort these ships 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. get in position. working 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 her 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 galley or abbreviated was what one woman said. to me tree 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 but it's not all yours some of it's on. and official policy yes i got you thank you. you're welcome you see.

much the same. thing the changes of the ships trailing in its wake good day duty officer to central control room where skirting the tanker. which will take approximately one more day other than that no other news have a safe shift. dimitri has passed his test with flying colors so he'll take up his new post in a matter of days. 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. a geisha across the arctic is much more active now. there's not so much ice now would account for that there's never gave

to be done in the. works for us. is much quicker than the best. twenty two days to reach. take forty days making the. crew and fuel costs. of using the north sea with. technologies advancing the climate is changing. role materials are becoming more expensive but. very differently. everything. with domestic problems life is very different here my wife and i were. married life i've only spent fourteen years home i missed those years i spent. one

time i came home and they were small and next they were grown ups when i went to 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 so much spent thirty five years here just like we're going to similar video soon as i first saw my son a year and a half after he was born and going to do in the end you know wasn't there when my wife left the maternity home and lost any of our children other 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 a spike 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 the ice breakers are there to help. when he's hot to get through the ice because sailors come to get you off the trouble of the fuel it's about. listen so they saw no reason. why you feel. mighty good luck or a run. down. on the three of us get got. no.

money up on my ship. marketed done. a lot of. the nordic has safely be discounted through the ice. she's able to make her own way to a safe harbor. you know which is good there's nothing in ventris about the work it's mostly receiving them. 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. to go digging it in a bowl but after spending all this time it see them. at the center of the sea route. with.

much to be done. to try. to. three months. of food. because it's. perishable food that they need. and then ships just put to sea fresh fruit and vegetables. watch out carefully. when they'll be able to go home next. because i've just been on vacation.

and they have be. just a bit like groundhog day. but she has. to take. east. the fleet was waiting for them on the ice border. for. fear of her we followed you and your daughter without your.

meat. is the northernmost town of russia across the straits lies america and the other hemisphere. the crew has just two hours to wall cone so midland as evening descends on the. it's still early morning to both of those in a time difference because the ship remains on hope post time tomorrow she'll sailed west. the fleet awaits safe passage through the ice.

so obviously one of the russian also for the continuation of the return they want to sell the american heart. missiles all the rest of it to a new country new new markets expanding markets because most of these countries are . still much more politico and. certainly economic the bug in between europeans who wants to go with the united states remain committed to their security and the united states wants you. know we are all like you just i could jump in and ask you could if i could jump in and ask you i mean they want washington because they want the american taxpayer to pay for it because the united states pays the vast majority of the bill for nato so this is free riding that's what they want you know no no they don't want they're not the security of this is really an evolution they want someone else in times of austerity particularly now with the american taxpayer picking up the american defense industries would be more than happy to do it.

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