R / V "Experiment" - Ukrainian research vessel . There were dozens of scientific expeditions in the Black, Azov and Caspian seas. Made important scientific measurements and tests.
| R / V “Experiment” | |
|---|---|
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| Flag |  Ukraine |
| Ship class and type | Research vessel |
| Home port | Sevastopol |
| Call sign | Utnh |
| Manufacturer |  GDR |
| Launched | 1949 |
| Commissioned | 1949 |
| Removed from the fleet | 2011 |
| Status | recycled |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 162 t |
| Draft | 2.1 m (summer) |
| Crew | 12, expedition - 6 people |
The vessel was also used to study the radiation situation in the Black, Azov, Marble, Aegean and Caspian seas, in the Don and Volga rivers, as well as in the Tsimlyansk reservoir.
History
The vessel was built in the GDR in 1949 as a large seiner for the Black Sea of the type BCHS-300, the name - "Shutter". In the late 1970s, on the order of the USSR Ministry of Higher Education, it was converted into a research vessel (NIS) - the new name “Experiment”, the port of registry Krasnovodsk.
The vessel is able to walk both on the seas and on rivers. The “experiment” had a boat for sampling water in river mouths, in small bays, sand samples on beaches, bottom sediments, etc. The presence of a trawl made it possible to select fish and some marine animals for analysis of the radionuclides contained in them. Diving equipment provided underwater work. There were two laboratories on the ship, one of which was used to house radiometric equipment, the other chemical. The bottom of the lower laboratory was a window through which it was possible to view the sea (river) bottom and its inhabitants. Also, the R / V “Experiment” had a system for determining coordinates by radio link, radar, lot (the speed of the vessel) and an echo sounder (determining the depth under the keel of the ship). This allowed at any time to accurately determine the coordinates of the vessel at the time of sampling and radiometric measurements and its location relative to the coastline and bottom topography. Hydrological equipment included bathometers and winches for working with them, tubes for sampling bottom sediments of silt, a winch with a cable-rope, for powering a submersible g-radiation sensor.
After the collapse of the USSR, the ship entered the SE "Sevastopol Detachment of Scientific Research Vessels" (Ukraine) with the home port of Sevastopol.
In 2002, due to the lack of funding for maintenance and long downtime, was leased to the Sevastopol commercial enterprise “Trade and Service” and remade into a fishing vessel. The new name is the “Experiment” emergency response system.
In 2006-2007, it was again re-equipped and was engaged in extracting old cable communications from the bottom of the Black Sea.
In May 2007, the Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine conducted an oceanographic expedition in the north-western sector of the Black Sea, which opened a series of planned surveys in the area. The expedition was carried out in the framework of national and international projects - Climate, Ecoshelf, Stable Ecosystem, SESAM, ECOOP and Oceanography. It was shown that under the conditions of the anomalously warm previous autumn-winter period in May 2007, a pronounced subduction of water formed in the autumn process was still observed above the dumping of depths along the isopycnic surfaces winter cooling. New data were obtained on the intensity of vertical turbulent exchange on the continental slope of the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
In 2009, it sucked, and in 2011 it was disposed of by a tenant company at the VtorCherMet plant in Inkerman .
After disposal, questions arose regarding the legality of these actions as the vessel was on the balance of the state-owned enterprise SONIS.
Crew
- R / V “Experiment”
- Cherny Valery Arkhipovich
- V.P. Ovcharenko
- K.V. Pokholok
- BCHS "Experiment"
- Gennadiy Bizyanov - captain
- Beech Dmitriy - Old.
- Yury Kirsanov - old mechanic
- Alexander Bodik - boatswain
- Cherny Maxim Valerievich - technologist
- Ena Vyacheslav Andreevich - Cadet