{"id":19422,"date":"2020-10-15T06:03:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T03:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/russian-tall-ship-completes-historic-northern-sea-route-passage\/19422\/"},"modified":"2020-10-15T06:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T03:03:48","slug":"russian-tall-ship-completes-historic-northern-sea-route-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/russian-tall-ship-completes-historic-northern-sea-route-passage\/19422\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Tall Ship Completes Historic Northern Sea Route Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>After departing from Vladivostok, Russia in mid-August, the Sedov completed the east-west passage this week having passed the south tip of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, marking the easternmost point of Europe. The vessel is expected to arrive Murmansk, Russia sometime next week.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The journey was made possible due to unprecedented low levels of sea-ice. In fact, Sedov\u2019s captain said that during the journey they experienced hardly any sea ice at all.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expected that we at least would have encountered some finely-crushed ice in the Vilkitsky Strait and the Longa Strait,\u201d ship captain Novikov told newspaper Neft, as <a href=\"https:\/\/thebarentsobserver.com\/en\/climate-crisis\/2020\/10\/there-was-no-ice-water-says-captain-tall-ship-sedov-about-arctic-voyage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported by The Barents Observer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have sailed across practically the whole Northern Sea in open waters, and we have not run into any crushed sea-ice, nor icebergs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"8a5817ce6105a5f77a8e38b5-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Sedov is a four-masted, steel-hulled barque that is one of the largest of its type in the world. It is is currently operated by Russia\u2019s Federal Agency for Fishery, which organized the journey. In addition to the ship\u2019s crew, on board were 136 cadets from the Baltic State Academy of the Fishing Fleet, the Kaliningrad Maritime Fisheries College and the Murmansk State Technical University.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The tall ship was originally built in Germany in 1921 but was acquired by the Soviet Union in 1945 as a war repatriation.<\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After departing from Vladivostok, Russia in mid-August, the Sedov completed the east-west passage this week having passed the south tip of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, marking the easternmost point of Europe. The vessel is expected to arrive Murmansk, Russia sometime next week. The journey was made possible due to unprecedented low levels of sea-ice. In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1565,2482,6522,11254,5893,292,997,1070,9628],"class_list":["post-19422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-completes","tag-historic","tag-northern","tag-passage","tag-route","tag-russian","tag-sea","tag-ship","tag-tall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/19423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}