Somewhere in the middle between Murmansk and Severomorsk there is a place with ambiguous name «Mohnatkina Pakhta» - in the common people - "Mohnatka". This is a modest oil transshipment railway station in a small valley between the hills of.
That's one of those hills, I finally saw where the "swell" (and vice versa), all oil tankers, scurrying back and forth along the Kola Bay.
That "red sweet couple" in the center consists of:
- Ice tanker "Timothy Guzhenko", the consistency of a twin brother, "Basil Dinkova ", which was here:
http://www.photoforum.ru/photo/525600/, recall only that his displacement - 71 thousand tons, and Length - 257 meters;
- A former supertanker "Berge Pioneer", built in 1980 in Japan, now renamed the floating oil storage tank "Belokamenka".
FSO "Belokamenka" has a displacement of 360 700 tons lifting capacity 407 855 !!! tons, and its length - a modest one-third kilometre (340m).
It turns out that since 2003, this "ship" is part of the "transport-technological system of transportation of oil Prirazlomnoye oil field". It was reconstructed in Saudi Arabia for the Arctic conditions, and February 14, 2004, this monster entered the Kola Bay - it was generally the first call of the tanker with the deadweight (displacement) in the territorial waters of Russia.
Well, I was not against, at the time of my ascent to the hill and reviews "of the former super", by "oilmen" in the Barents Sea, ragged after the next "Battle on the Ice" in the Arctic Ocean, wearily trudged nuclear icebreaker "Vaigach".
Across tankers "Vaigach" almost small - length - 152 meters, and deadweight of 20000 tons. :)))
PS: By the way, the Campanula I find on the road here, an hour later ... ;)
