Мурманская миля. 2016, № 3.

ONBOARD THE RESEARCH VESSEL 52 SAILING TO THE ARCTIC There’s a common VHF radio station with a microphone to communicate with passing by vessels. On 11th August there appeared a sail of a small yacht astern overtaking our vessel with crossing of the course (our vessel was going with a common low speed of 4.5 kt along the winged headland). The Kara Sea can’t be compared to the Mediterranean Sea, the re ’s no yachts sailing now and then. “ It’s the APOSTOL ANDREY. You can communicate with them, if you’d like to ,” prosily said Chief mate Vadim Guschin standing on the bridge. Whoa! The legendary sailing vessel APOSTOL ANDREY with Nikolay Litau as the Captain, who had frequently sailed to the Arctic! Among six members of personnel there was a colleague of mine onboard, a reporter of the Arkhangelsk newspaper PRAVDA SEVERA Aleksandr Oboimov. The experienced journalist told me, that the new cruise of the APOSTOL ANDREY was devoted to the memory of Georgy Brusilov, the explorer of the Arctic, who had died with his steam sailing yacht the SVYATAYA ANNA in the icy waters of the Kara Sea precisely a hundred years ago (the exact date and circumstances of that tragedy are unknown). In August 1912 the yacht started to the Arctic from the shores of the Kola Peninsula, but in October it was pinched near the Yamal Peninsula and was drifting captured with ice fo r two years. Now the Arkhangelsk sailing vessel intends to follow the route of Brusilov and to finish it at the Kola Peninsula. What desperate people onboard this walnut- shell! I took the liberty on behalf of all members of our vessel of wishing the crew of the APOSTOL V ad im GUSCH IN В а д и м ГУЩИН ANDREY luck, and Chief mate Guschin passed a remark, that if I wanted to refresh memory about our talk, all details of it had been recorded in digital format in accordance with regulations. Since that day I took a new look at the views of the Kara Sea, especially when the works of the GEOLOG DMITRIY NALIVKIN moved to the shore of the Yamal Peninsula. GENTLEMEN - MATES An Englishman of the Indian origin Tanoj Kumar Ghosh celebrated his 50th anniversary in the Arctic, where he had never been before, and in April 1977 (in answer to my traditional question) he said he had studied at college in Bombay (for some time this Indian city has been called Mumbai). An Irishman Terry Forsyte had to oversee the computer constituent of our seism ic fo r the customer. And according to his story professionals from Murmansk never gave him a handle to stumble at their qualification. The experienced foreigner was deeply impressed by the accuracy of navigational passing of straight lines, the clarity and practical absence of noise while recording signals from a terribly long cable astern, the preciseness of preprocessing of terabytes of data by the observers. In April 1977 optim istic and merry Terry Forsyte was studying electronics at college in the Northern Ireland, after that he was studying seismology at the Texas University in Houston. Now he lives in Denmark and goes about geophysical campaigns all over the world by plane. “Good vessel, very nice people!” in the same breath said Terry and Tanoj summing up onboard the NALIVKIN in late September. In February 2015 when they probably almost forgot the NALIVKIN President of Russia Vladimir Putin found it necessary to thank all foreign experts who had taken part in seismic and oil production in the Kara Sea. The contracts were broken but common people weren’t forgotten. Besides, MAGE safety engineering representative, Anton Scherbakov, 1st class quality engineer in the performance of his duties had to communicate with foreigners the most onboard the NALIVKIN. Activity progress briefings on the bridge were held on a daily MURMANSK MILE • 3-2016