Akademik Ioffe is a research vessel, named after the Soviet physicist Abram Fedorovich Ioffe.
Built in 1988, the vessel has a displacement of 6,600 tons, and a length of 364 ft (111 m).[3]Akademik Ioffe and Akademik Sergey Vavilov were built as a joint project. Both ships feature a vertical shaft about two meters in diameter, which opens from the main deck into a special room, from which an acoustic receiver or a transmitter can be lowered to below the waterline by means of a winch. The vessels were used for experiments on the long-range propagation of sound in the ocean.
The vessel ran aground west of the Astronomical Society Islands in the Gulf of Boothia,[5]Nunavut, Canada in August 2018.[6] There were 126 people on board; none were lost.[7] The Akademik is said to have remained aground for 12 hours.[8] The salvage effort cost Canadian taxpayers $513,025.44, in addition to Canadian Coast Guard costs.[9]
1st expedition - August - December 1989, together with the R/V Academik Vavilov. Six groups of researchers from the USSR Academy of Sciences. Included - attempts to measure neutrinos, to study the passage of ultra-low-frequency oscillations, etc.
8th expedition - June - September 2000.
10th expedition - October - November 2001. Geological studies in the equatorial part of the Atlantic Ocean.
19th expedition - autumn 2005. Hydrological sections in the Drake Passage, Bransfield Strait and the Loper Strait.
20th expedition - spring of 2006.
21st expedition - summer of 2006. Hydrological section 59°30'; from the UK shelf to the southern tip of Greenland.
22nd expedition - autumn of 2006.
23rd expedition - summer of 2007. Hydrological section 59°30' from the UK shelf to the southern tip of Greenland, to the port of Iqaluit.
24th expedition - the fall of 2007. Hydrological section through the Drake Passage.
25th expedition - summer of 2008. A hydrological section of 59 ° 30 'from the UK shelf to the southern tip of Greenland - the Farwell metro station, ending in the port of St. John's (Newfoundland)
^"As ice recedes, the Arctic isn't prepared for more shipping traffic". PBS. Retrieved 10 September 2018. I was aboard the 364-foot Russian research-cruise ship Akademik Ioffe when it came to a violent stop after grounding on a shoal in a remote region of the Gulf of Boothia in Canada's Arctic. Fortunately, none of the 102 passengers and 24 crew members were injured.
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