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BRIDGE LOG ENTRY

NAVIGATION IN ICE
DATE 1.11.2013
WATCH 0800 - 1200
PASSAGE Lazaro Cadenas - Vostochiny
SUPERVISING 3/O Keshwa
POSITION passing Chetvertyy Kurilskiy

LOG ENTRY:

While on sea watch me and the 3/O were discussing what to do in ICE dur to a possible
encounter at vostochiny. so I Wrote him a report on how I would prepare the ship for ICE,
including use of the BPG checklist B11

• Consider ship type – ice class, availability of ice breakers

• Time of year, type of expected ice, area of operation, amount of bunkers, stores,
state of hull & machinery, insurance, experience of personal.
• Tanks not more than 90% full.
• Clothing
• heating systems
• piping / drainage
• de-icing compound
• damage control gear , cement, sand, steel plate, shoring, collision mat
• isolate & drain fire main
• batteries cared for as per manufactures spec
• mooring winches covered

Indicators of ice;

• Ice blink
o Whitish glare in sky / sea appears black
• Fog
• Radar – sea clutter

Entering

• With ice breaker – they will determine speed, dist bwt ships
• Avoid entering if possible, skirt around pack to windward (sharp edge defined)
• Watchman aft to report on prop / rudder
• Trim by stern
• Enter in area of low concentration – old ice, avoid ice under pressure – hit head
on @ slow speed
• Just ease ice flows apart, maintain or increase speed to maintain manoeuvrability
• Use of full rudder not recommended – may swing stern into ice
• Watch for wind shifts
The three principles to be kept in mind during an ice transit are :

Keep moving even if very slowly.

Work with ice movement and not against it.
Excessive speed leads to Ice damage.

“The ship later went through ice”

Information

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• Reporting stations (international ice patrol)

• Mariners Handbook – ice limits
• Passage charts
• Canadian Ice patrol

Reporting – By all available means

• Ships in the vicinity / Competent authorities / 1st point on the coast

• request that that station transmit the info to appropriate authorities – info may be sent
in plain language or int’l code
• Info reported / Kind of ice / Time & date (Z) / If sub freezing air temp associated with
gale force winds causing ice-accretion on superstructures
• Date & time of obs/ Air temp / Sea temp /

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