I like Ships too

[trysail]

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?level0=100

 

[thør]

http://www.sciencepoles.org/uploads/pictgalleries_images/chinare25_001.jpg

XUE LONG is on her way north. Heading through the Bering Strait bound for Iceland.

She's about 100 miles west of Attu, right now.

Headed NE at 4.7 kts.

30 kt NW winds and 12 ft seas

 

[thør]

From the webcam, I see that the Noble Discoverer is at Dutch Harbor. I don't see the Kulluk or the Aiviq.

http://akweathercams.faa.gov/wxdata/59-42712.jpg

Webcam pic.

 

[thør]

She's about 100 miles west of Attu, right now.

Headed NE at 4.7 kts.

30 kt NW winds and 12 ft seas

Position reporting has stopped.

 

[trysail]

From the webcam, I see that the Noble Discoverer is at Dutch Harbor. I don't see the Kulluk or the Aiviq.

http://akweathercams.faa.gov/wxdata/59-42712.jpg

Webcam pic.

I'm impressed. There's no hiding from you.

http://www.noblecorp.com/Fleet/RigSummary.asp?RigType_VC=Drillship

http://www.noblecorp.com/Fleet/Rigs/Discoverer_100.jpg​

 

[thør]

I'm impressed. There's no hiding from you.

http://www.noblecorp.com/Fleet/RigSummary.asp?RigType_VC=Drillship

http://www.noblecorp.com/Fleet/Rigs/Discoverer_100.jpg​

They prolly towed her (with engines running) to Dutch. I wonder if Uncle Ted's boy is captaining one of the tugs.

 

[thør]

The Xue Long is back on the chart. About 150 miles north of Attu with a heading of 33° at 15 kts. Max speed is 17.9kts. Seems like they're in a rush.

 

[trysail]

The Xue Long is back on the chart. About 150 miles north of Attu with a heading of 33° at 15 kts. Max speed is 17.9kts. Seems like they're in a rush.

Research/survey vessel (?)

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/flags/CN.gif
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Length x Breadth: 167 m X 25 m
Draught: 8.6 m
Destination: ICELAND



http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?level0=100

 

[thør]

Research/survey vessel (?)

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/flags/CN.gif
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Length x Breadth: 167 m X 25 m
Draught: 8.6 m
Destination: ICELAND



http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?level0=100

They gave the Canadians a rush in 1999.

 

[thør]

The Xue Long is back on the chart. About 150 miles north of Attu with a heading of 33° at 15 kts. Max speed is 17.9kts. Seems like they're in a rush.

Now, it looks as if they've stopped to fish.

 

[trysail]

Salvage operations have commenced:

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/07/14/costa2.jpg?t=1342274368&s=51

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...it's an enormous salvage operation. The Costa Concordia is two-and-a-half football fields long, says Nick Sloane, the senior salvage master for the project. "And we're dealing with 60,000 tons of weight, on rocks right on an exposed parts of island."


http://www.npr.org/2012/07/14/156772234/italians-commemorate-costa-concordia-wreck

 

[leBonhomme]

1960:
http://maritimt.com/images/stories/nyheter/skipet/2004/stavangerfjord.jpg
http://i566.photobucket.com/albums/ss102/OMBugge/Veteran Ships/Oslofjord-02.jpg
1962, 1964:
US troop transport ships
1970:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveumpire/4295345094/
Singapore - Freemantle
1991:

 

[leBonhomme]

continued:

1991:
http://www.maritimequest.com/sailin...agdalene_vinnen_1921/sedov_robert_edmonds.jpg
2003
http://www.seavision.info/ship.html

 

[thør]

The Xue Long is now off the western end of St Lawrence Island. Still very much in the Bering Sea, but headed toward the Chukchi.

 

[thør]

It appears that the Kulluk is now in Dutch Harbor.

http://akweathercams.faa.gov/wxdata/18-51090.jpg

Note tug and Tower coming around the point.
http://akweathercams.faa.gov/wxdata/59-97978.jpg

 

[thør]

The Xue Long is now off the western end of St Lawrence Island. Still very much in the Bering Sea, but headed toward the Chukchi.

Dead east of Provideniya, right now.

 

[trysail]

Dead east of Provideniya, right now.

How narrow is the Bering Strait at its narrowest point? I'm eyeballing it at something like 80-100 miles. Is that close ?

 

[thør]

How narrow is the Bering Strait at its narrowest point? I'm eyeballing it at something like 80-100 miles. Is that close ?

Wiki says 53 miles.

 

[trysail]

http://www.bloomberg.com/image/ilaUsPW_IAD4.jpg
American Spirit
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Aframax (~690,000 barrel capacity)
VLCC (~2,000,000 barrel capacity)

...The surge in Russian cargoes will help erode a glut of Aframaxes that drove rates down 44 percent to $7,994 a day since the start of January, according to the London-based Baltic Exchange. They need about $8,400 to cover costs including crew and insurance...The [$17,000 per day] Aframax rate projected for next year would still be 60 percent less than the $42,648 the vessels were earning in 2008...That encouraged owners to embark on the biggest ship building program in history and the fleet expanded 17 percent since then...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...rofit-as-russia-ships-record-oil-freight.html

 

[thør]

U.S. Coast Guard to open temporary base in Barrow, Alaska

 

[thør]

The Xue Long is just off King Island now, in US waters.

In the Chuckchi Sea, now, heading 1° west of north.

 

[thør]

The Xue Long is just off King Island now, in US waters.

In the Chuckchi Sea, now, heading 1° west of north.

And now, about 50 miles SW off Point Hope.

 

[trysail]

Note the reverse color scheme (red hull, white stripe).

http://www.bloomberg.com/image/iQ0Unz8vCzr4.jpg
U.S.C.G. Healy
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http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?oldmmsi=303902000&zoom=10&olddate=lastknown#

 

[thør]

Note the reverse color scheme (red hull, white stripe).

Saw that........red is a good color to see on the ice......

Xue Long came within 10 miles of Point Hope

 

[thør]

Saw that........red is a good color to see on the ice......

Xue Long came within 10 miles of Point Hope

And is now 15 miles off Cape Lisburne.