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Russian Nuclear Icebreakers: to the North Pole!

March 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments


The Picture Blog, Dark Roasted Blend is featuring a series on Russian Nuclear Icebreakers.

Here’s a sample: The balance of the pics are here.

Paired up for the voyage

The Voyage Plan

Sunrise

The Reactor Control Room

The Reactor

Here’s the video version via Sea Fever.

Nuclear Icebreaker

for more Nuclear Goodness CLICK HERE or take our nuclear cargo quiz HERE.

Photos by Svetlana Bogdanova; seamen of the Murmansk Sea Shipping Company via Dark Roasted Blend. Blog post by gCaptain and Bitterend’s chief blogger Richard Rodriguez



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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Maritime Monday 104 | gCaptain.com // Mar 31, 2008 at 3:33 am

    […] Russian Nuclear Icebreakers: to the North Pole! […]

  • 2 CMA_decky // Mar 31, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    I just was looking at this online a couple days ago. For ~$22k (plus airfare to moscow) you can take a 14 day cruise on one of the icebreakers to the North Pole. Sounds like something to put on my “Things to do once I’m a Pilot and have lots of money” list.

  • 3 CMA_decky // Mar 31, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    Website for the cruise is:

    http://www.polarcruises.com/ship.cfm?pole=Arctic&mainnav=ships&ship_id=21

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