Мурманская миля. 2016, № 3.

ONBOARD THE RESEARCH VESSEL 56 Having graduated from the Rediotechnical Department of the Marine College in Murmansk, ship radio officer Nesterenko in his first voyage onboard the traw ler KHOLMOGORSK of KRASNOYE ZNAMYA fishery farm even caught the Morse code. In 2007 he took a job in MAGE as a ship radio officer (rather as the second in command fo r electronics) and onboard the GEOFIZIK as well as the PROFESSOR KURENTSOV. It was his third voyage onboard the NALIVKIN and ten computers of navigational system in charge. I went two decks downstairs - to the processing centre. There were observers Andrey Povchun and M ikhail Khrustalyov, seism ic p rocessors Artyom Arlashin and Ivan Bayazov on the watch. There were 8 displays in fron t of them . Two of them showed cu rren t section raw data, the other two - the readings of the reco rd ing process of the files acquired at another air guns shot. The fifth display allowed control of streamer position in the water astern and ‘b ird s ’ control via the com pu te r to put them higher or lower. On the sixth - one could see the air guns at floating buoys and on the seventh - control of HD recording process of files acquired from the streamer. And finally the eighth display was navigational, doubling the same on the bridge and show ing offshore vessel location point. Whew! Seems I haven’t forgotten anything. They seem to know where to look first. At 6:22 a.m. there were eight hundred meters left. At last at 6:28 a.m. - stop! There was a prosy call from the air compressor room: “So. Shall we stop the compressors?” I went one more deck down to the gun lab. There was Maxim Fabizhevsky and Andrey Snetko on watch. Fabizhevsky turned off the pressure of compressed air going to the guns and checked them fo r bleeding. Everything was all right. I hurried to the compressor room with my camera. It was the compressor air-plant operator calling to the processing centre. He had stopped the compressors already but he raised his hand to the sacred button again at my request. So many times Viktor Anisimov had conducted that operation onboard the NALIVKIN fo r 29 years! He was the second senior veteran of the NALIVKIN, who had sailed onboard that vessel in surveying campaigns since 1986 (only Valentina Kharlamova, the canteen worker had a longer record of service onboard the NALIVKIN). It’s interesting tha t there were no seamen in the fam ily of V iktor Anisimov, the comp ressor unit operator. He was born in the town of Pavlovo-on-Oka, graduated from the River School in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod at present) as a seaman. And he was sent to the Northern Fleet fo r m ilitary service. Thus he stayed there in the Far North. “And what about April of 1977?” I put my traditional question to the veteran. “I had sailed onboard supply vessels of the Northern Fleet as a mechanic, and in 1981 I started to work in MAGE, took part in surveying companies onboard the SMELY, the KARACHAYEVSK, the ATLANTIDA, the KURENTSOV, the SEVER and the GEOFIZIK. In 1986 the NALIVKIN seemed to be a fairy tale fo r me. I sailed onboard the NALIVKIN since her second voyage. There are four of us, the compressor operators onboard the NALIVKIN now, others are Vasily Fadin and Aleksandr Filatov. There are seven compressor units, two or three of them are constantly in service.” The computers were also installed in the engine room, Viktor Anisimov saw on the display that the last line was done and called to the processing centre. So, two months of high- profile assignments were over. The subsoil data acquired at 79 lines the total extension of which was 6,770 km 375 m was HD recorded. The reviews of the experts from ROSNEFT and KARMORNEFTEGAZ, received onboard were the most favorable, the quality of supplied geophysical data was at a high global level. MURMANSK MILE • 3-2016