The new crew members of the Arctic Sunrise are briefed in the ship's hold about safety on-board and their up and coming mission.
A team of workers load seismic cable from a container onto the Russian seismic testing ship Professor Kurentsov. The Russian ship is loaded with 8 kilometres of seismic cable while docked in Kirkenes, Norway. Seismic testing uses sound waves generated by air cannons to create detailed maps of undersea areas, used to determine locations for oil drilling.
The new crew members of the Arctic Sunrise are briefed in the ship's hold about safety on-board and their up and coming mission.
Seismic Sunrise
Only weeks before the Arctic 30 set sail, the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise also confronted Russian oil giant Rosneft as it prepared to drill for oil in the fragile Arctic in 2013. The Rosneft-contracted vessel Akademic Lazarev began seismic testing in Fedynskiy license block in the Barents Sea. Greenpeace approached the vessel, demanding that it stop operations immediately. Rosneft has recently signed joint deals to drill in the Arctic with international oil companies including ExxonMobil, BP and Statoil. The Greenpeace vessel confronted the oil industry in the Barents and Kara seas before being boarded by the Russian authorities.
