The scientific vessel “Professor Shtokman. Scientific vessel Professor Shtokman Nis Professor Shtokman

At the oil and gas licensed areas in the Kara and Barents Seas, an assessment of the background state of the environment was carried out and ecological and fisheries mapping was carried out. The work was carried out by specialists from the Institute for Environmental Design and Survey (IEPI) and the Institute of Oceanology. P.P. Shirshov RAS, which in October 2014 returned from a long voyage of the research vessel "Professor Shtokman". The research was carried out within a month and covered more than 40,000 sq. km of licensed areas.

The main goal of a comprehensive study of the water areas of the Kara and Barents Seas is the development of a program for environmental monitoring during the future operation of oil and gas licensed areas. To carry out comprehensive studies, experts took more than 1000 samples of sea water, bottom sediments, bacterio-, phyto- and zooplankton and other hydrobiological samples.

In the course of work on the Professor Shtokman vessel, specialists from the IEPI and IO RAS discovered an unusual distribution of hydrological and hydrobiological characteristics of the waters of the Kara Sea, which experts will analyze during further office data processing. Based on the results of environmental work in the Kara and Barents Seas, an assessment will be made of the impact of the planned development of licensed areas on environment, as well as a preliminary forecast of damage to aquatic biological resources.

The research vessel Professor Shtokman is the fourth vessel in a series of four Project 430 vessels built at the Stx Finland Turku shipyard in Turku, Finland. Named after the Soviet oceanologist Vladimir Borisovich Shtokman.

This series of vessels is intended for oceanographic, geological and physical research in the world's oceans, including in the regions of the tropics and the Arctic. The swimming class is unlimited.

R/V "Professor Shtokman" IMO: 7703027, flag of Russia, port of registry Kaliningrad, building number 332, built on January 16, 1979. Shipbuilder: Stx Finland Turku, city of Turku, Finland. Owner and operator: Russian Academy of Sciences - Institute of Oceanology. P.P. Shirshov.

Main characteristics: Tonnage 1297 tons, deadweight 561 tons. Length 68.7 meters, width 12.4 meters, draft 4.2 meters. Travel speed 13.5 knots, economical 10 knots. The crew is 34 people. There are 6 laboratories for 21 workplaces on board the vessel, with total area 95 m2. The ship can accommodate 26 scientists. There are 32 cabins on board, including: 2 deluxe cabins, 12 single cabins, 14 double cabins, 6 triple cabins.

Engine type: diesel installation.

Main engine: RB16M358, 2000 hp Auxiliary engine: diesel - generators - 3 units, 185, 160, 50 hp.

Steering gear: A6.3/350 E, electro-hydraulic machine; handlebar type: Simple streamlined; Drive power - 8 kW.

On board the vessel there is:

Radio navigation equipment: Gyrocompass "Kurs - 4" - 2 pcs.; Log "IEL -2m" - 1 piece; Coordinate finder: Magnovox navigation network, Laurent С-ESZ-700, NOV TEX NCR-300, NOV STORDUKS NK -14 FILIPS, REGAL DECCA C1-140/4, RADIO DIRECTION FINDER KDF-SEP-TOS-LND(FR6) Echo sounder NEL-10 - 1 set.

Radio transmitter PV / HF "BRIG" - 1 set; Radio receiver "Cycloid" - 2 sets; GMDSS equipment area A3 "SAILOR" consisting of: Telex terminal MF / HF - 1 set; Radio station PV/HF 250 W - 1 set; DSC PV / HF - 1 set; VHF r/st with DSC block - 2 sets; INMARSAT - C - 1 set; INMARSAT-mini-M - 1 set; VHF r / st - wearable GMDSS "AXIS-250" - 3 sets;

EPIRB COSPAS-SARSAT "TRON-40S" - 1 set; Radar transponder RT-94 SART - 2 pcs; VHF r / st "Acacia" - 1 pc; KVU "Birch" - 1 set; Navtex NCR-300A - 1 set; Teletype LO-300 - 1 set; ARQ-complex MX-80 and teletype LO-300 - 1 set;

Electronic key "EKM-4" - 1 piece; Radar Bridgemaster C181/4 - 1 set; Radar FURUNO - 1 set; DGPS Philips MK-10 - 1 set.

Cargo device: Crane-2pcs. load capacity 3 tons. P-frame bow - 1.4 tons.; P-frame aft - 1.2 tons.

Scientific winches: Cable winch "STD" - Power 24Kn; cable - Power 55Kn; Trawling - Power 40Kn; Seismic - Power 9Kn; Rope - Power 16Kn.

Hydroacoustic equipment: Echo sounder "ELAK-ENIF" - 1 piece; Echo sounder "ELAK-NBS" - 1 piece; Log "IEL-2" - 1 pc.

By 2006, the vessel had made 74 voyages to various regions of the World Ocean, including the Arctic and equatorial latitudes. Significant work was carried out on the ship: the discovery of a large oil and gas field on the shelf of the Barents Sea, called the "Shtokman Field"; study of the structure of the Red Sea rift; conducting the first Soviet complex expedition to the Amazon basin; obtaining new data on the Azores current; sailing along the Northern Sea Route; study of seismic activity in the area of ​​the automatic telephone exchange under construction in Bushehr (Iran) and others.

In recent years, the R/V Professor Shtokman has been widely used in the study of the Baltic, Barents, Bely and Kara seas: their hydrophysics and geophysics, geology and geochemistry; in carrying out monitoring of burial sites of toxic substances and spent units of ship's automatic telephone exchanges, which pose a potential threat to the biosphere of these basins.

(Materials from ocean.ru were used).

In October 2014, the vessel during which more than 40,000 sq. km of the Kara and Barents Seas to assess the environmental impact of the development of oil and gas fields.

The waters of the Baltic as a cemetery and a storehouse
1.10.2007

This man knows everything about the seabed. Professor of the Institute of Oceanology Yemelyan Yemelyanov has been studying the Baltic for many years. With a group of scientists, he proved that the Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted in the world, but Russian coasts cleaner than other places. The level of radiation in the Baltic Sea has been actively monitored over the past seventeen years.
The Chernobyl accident became a kind of time reference point. Again, according to the observations of scientists, the high level of radiation in the Baltic is primarily due to isolation and relative shallow water.
The Baltic Sea is a real graveyard of ships. Only in the Kaliningrad water area today there are more than a hundred sunken objects. Of these, most are warships of the Third Reich, which are still fraught with danger. Not a single most modern ammunition depot can be compared with the number of shells at the bottom of the Baltic. Sea silt hides hundreds of thousands of poisonous bombs. Dozens of German barges with chemical weapons on board were sunk near the island of Bornholm and the Lithuanian Klaipeda after the Great Patriotic War.
The scientific vessel "Professor Shtokman" leaves Kaliningrad for the next international expedition. Kaliningrad, newspaper "Amber Land" (media), Kaliningrad region. Scientists of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology intend to continue the study of the bottom Baltic Sea. Laboratories and technical compartments of the ship are crammed with computers and hydroacoustic instruments. At least 20 ships lie at the bottom of the sea near the Kaliningrad coast, which may contain dangerous goods.
Nasir Yuzbekov, head of the EMERCOM of Russia department, told VGTRK: “Our goal is to detect these dangers in time, enter them into the identification register and make prompt decisions. I really wanted to confirm and identify those objects that were found in 2006.”
Emelyan Emelyanov, professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, adds: “The shells of bombs and shells have already completely rusted over 55 years, and toxic substances fall out and spread through the silt. And the fishermen here catch fish. Trawl and drag shells and substances over a larger area. Now we have found out that these chemical burials do not pose a danger to the population. If you do not touch them, they will decompose for another 100 years and gradually dissolve. Toxic substances are released, of course, but arsenic combines with other minerals. Therefore, there are very few of these elements in the water: cadmium, arsenic and lead.
But the danger still remains. Radionuclides accumulate in fish. Moreover, regardless of which part of the Baltic is fishing, the level of radiation is the same everywhere. Flounder, whitefish, cod, pike perch - these varieties are considered the most infected.
The European community around this hype is trying not to raise. Fishing villages in Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Norway today live off the fishery. But they do not sell Baltic fish on their territory, the entire catch goes to Eastern Europe, including Kaliningrad region. And on the shelves of Western Europe for the most part - fish from the "clean" Atlantic.
The Baltic Sea, in addition to shells, is also rich in building materials. At the bottom lie carbonate rocks (lime, chalk). Scientists have also proven the presence of gold in sea silt. But it is not yet profitable to extract it, the costs are too high.
The Russian Baltic is now of great interest to divers as well. Divers from all over the country come to Kaliningrad to dive to the bottom of the sea. Evgeny Vishnevsky, diving into warm seas, anyway returned to the shores of the Baltic Sea. Although there are no exotic living creatures here, photographs of old sunken ships are of particular value.
Evgeny Vishnevsky, a diver, says: “There are a lot of sunken objects, an echo of the war. And there are planes, and warships, and civilians. There are also historical things. Less than half, I think, have been studied; the military probably has some kind of secret data. The same in the Polish waters. There are a lot of sunken objects in the Gdansk Bay.”
Among divers, as well as among archaeologists, there is the concept of a "black" diver. They specialize in finding rarities, on sunken ships. Especially civilians, of which there are many in the Baltic. But they do not disdain, and hand over scrap metal. Special underwater welding cuts the hulls of ships and raises them to the surface. From the ships, which are flooded closer to the shore, according to divers, there is little left.