Akademik Shokalskiy
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Akademik Shokalskiy moored in Ushuaia
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| Name: | Akademik Shokalskiy |
| Owner: | Russian Federation (Far Eastern Hydrometeorological Research Institute, Vladivostok) |
| Operator: | 2011-2012: Aurora Expeditions, Sydney, Australia 2013-2014: Australasian Antarctic Expedition |
| Port of registry: | 1982–1992: Vladivostok 
1992–2013: Vladivostok 
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| Builder: | Oy Laivateollisuus Ab, Turku, Finland |
| Yard number: | 343 |
| Identification: | Call sign: UBNF IMO number: 8010336 MMSI number: 273458210 |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Akademik Shuleykin-class research vessel, now Polar Pioneer-class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 1,764 GT 529 NT 620 DWT |
| Displacement: | 2,140 tonnes |
| Length: | 71.06 m (233 ft 2 in) |
| Beam: | 12.82 m (42 ft 1 in) |
| Draught: | 4.50 m (14 ft 9 in) |
| Ice class: | RMRS UL |
| Installed power: | Two 6ChRN 36/45 diesel engines (2 × 1,147 kW) |
| Propulsion: | Single shaft; controllable-pitch propeller |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Capacity: | 54 passengers |
| Crew: | 30 |
MV Akademik Shokalskiy (Russian: Академик Шокальский) is an Akademik Shuleykin-class ice-strengthened ship, built in Finland in 1982 and originally used for oceanographic research. In 1998 she was fully refurbished to serve as a research ship for Arctic and Antarctic work; she is used also for expedition cruising. She is named after the Russian oceanographer Yuly Shokalsky.
For two weeks from 25 December 2013 Akademik Shokalskiy was trapped in thick ice in Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, while operating an expedition for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014. The scientists and passengers were evacuated on 2 January.
The ship has two passenger decks, with dining rooms, a bar, a library, and a sauna, and accommodates 54 passengers. She is owned by the Russian Federation's Far Eastern Hydrometeorological Research Institute, Vladivostok and was previously chartered to Aurora Expeditions, an Australian expedition cruise line. In 2011, Akademik Shokalskiy sailed cruises along the coast of Russia, including the Northeast Passage, and to East Antarctica.
In 2013 Akademik Shokalskiy was chartered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014 to celebrate the centenary of the previous expedition under Douglas Mawson, and to repeat his scientific observations. The expedition had nine scientific goals related to observations, mapping, and measurements of environmental, biological, and marine changes associated with climate change. On 8 December 2013 the ship, with 74 people on board — four journalists, 19 scientists, 26 tourists, the expedition leader's wife and two children, and 22 crew members — sailed from Bluff in New Zealand to Antarctica. Around 07:20 AEDT on 25 December 2013, the ship broadcast a distress message after becoming trapped in heavy ice a few miles from the coast of Antarctica, 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) east of the French base Dumont D'Urville and approximately 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) south of Hobart. Chinese icebreaking research vessel Xuě Lóng, French research vessel L'Astrolabe and Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis were dispatched by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority to assist with the rescue operation of Akademik Shokalskiy.
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