Environmental Prediction Requirements for Safe Polar Navigation About the author: Tero Vauraste is President and CEO of Arctia ltd, a Finnish Polar Maritime Services company. The company provides ice management services, including icebreaking, oil spill response and other polar maritime assistance ...[Read more]
Polar Prediction Matters to the Icelandic Coast Guard
The Authors: Snorre Greil, project officer and Soley Kaldal, risk management and safety engineer, Department of Operations, Icelandic Coast Guard. It is getting late and dark in Iceland. The operator in the Icelandic Coast Guard (ICG) operations centre is preparing to broadcast the ...[Read more]
Breaking the Ice
Aspects of Practical Planning and Management of an Ice Passage About the Author: Captain Uwe Pahl was the master of the German research icebreaker RV Polarstern from 1996 until 2014. Since 2014, he has been the team leader of the construction supervision team of Reederei F. Laeisz for the new ...[Read more]