''Akademik Ioffe'' is a research vessel, named after the Soviet physicist
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe.
Built in 1988, the vessel has a displacement of 6,600 tons, and a length of . ''Akademik Ioffe '' and ''
Akademik Sergey Vavilov'' were built as a joint project. Both ships feature a vertical shaft about two meters in diameter, which opens from the main deck into a special room, from which an acoustic receiver or a transmitter can be lowered to below the waterline by means of a winch. The vessels were used for experiments on the long-range propagation of sound in the ocean.
The vessel belongs to the
Institute of Oceanology. P. P. Shirshov, of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
She was chartered by
One Ocean Expeditions until 2019.
2018 grounding
The vessel ran aground west of the
Astronomical Society Islands in the
Gulf of Boothia,
Nunavut
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, Canada in August 2018. There were 126 people on board; none were lost. The ''Akademik'' is said to have remained aground for 12 hours. The salvage effort cost Canadian taxpayers $513,025.44, in addition to
Canadian Coast Guard costs.
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Research expeditions
* 1st expedition - August - December 1989, together with the R/V ''Academik Vavilov''. Six groups of researchers from the
USSR Academy of Sciences. Included - attempts to measure neutrinos, to study the passage of ultra-low-frequency oscillations, etc.
* 8th expedition - June - September 2000.
* 10th expedition - October - November 2001. Geological studies in the equatorial part of the Atlantic Ocean.
* 19th expedition - autumn 2005. Hydrological sections in the Drake Passage, Bransfield Strait and the Loper Strait.
* 20th expedition - spring of 2006.
* 21st expedition - summer of 2006. Hydrological section 59°30'; from the UK shelf to the southern tip of Greenland.
* 22nd expedition - autumn of 2006.
* 23rd expedition - summer of 2007. Hydrological section 59°30' from the UK shelf to the southern tip of Greenland, to the port of
Iqaluit.
* 24th expedition - the fall of 2007. Hydrological section through the
Drake Passage.
* 25th expedition - summer of 2008. A hydrological section of 59 ° 30 'from the UK shelf to the southern tip of Greenland - the Farwell metro station, ending in the port of St. John's (Newfoundland)
* 29th expedition is from October to November 2009.
References
* ''Советов Ю.'
Геологический форум под Южным Крестомnbsp;// Наука в Сибири : Газета. — 2000. —
№ 48. — о 8-м рейсе судна
* ''Колобов В.'
nbsp;// Наука в Сибири : Газета. — 2002. —
№ 4-5. — о 10-м рейсе судна
* {{Cite web, url=http://www.mar-eco.no/Shiptoshore/akademik_ioffe_2009, title=Akademik Ioffe 2009, publisher=MAR-ECO, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101025115247/http://www.mar-eco.no/Shiptoshore/akademik_ioffe_2009, archive-date=2010-10-25, access-date=14 June 2010
— описание 29-го рейса судна со слов д-ра А. Переса (Бразилия)
Research vessels of Russia
Research vessels of the Soviet Union
1987 ships
Ships built in Rauma, Finland