Diesel-electric icebreaker «Admiral Makarov» Far Eastern Shipping Company has successfully completed an operation to rescue the crew of a French catamaran «Babouchka», wrecked in the Arctic Ocean 460 miles from the North Pole. Icebreaker «Admiral Makarov», which carried a watch on the ice and rescue provision in the eastern section of the Northern Sea Route and was in the vicinity of Cape Otto Schmidt (Northern Chukotka), was sent to the site of a disaster on the order of a catamaran marine rescue center Pevek. After passing 867 nautical miles, 510 of them — in close-knit Arctic ice, «Admiral Makarov» raised the French travelers on board on September 3. September 7 icebreaker is scheduled to arrive at the port of Pevek. Head of the French expedition, «In Search of adventure to the North Pole: the conquest of the Arctic» (Quest through the Pole: Sailing the Arctic) Ruby Sebastian (Sebastian Roubinet) after rescuing wrote in his diary: «This morning we noticed a dot on the horizon — it was the» Admiral Makarov » (Russian icebreaker that came to save us) I warmly thank the team, «Admiral Makarov» and all those who made our salvation possible in this almost inaccessible corner of the world. »
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