North Pole holiday expedition on the Nuclear Icebreaker Yamal

[SatanicDoomElf]

thats pretty awsome!

[eco100eco100eco]

I will do this for sure, tks for sharing this video

[jabones57]

Another awesome video largely diminished by the strange compulsion to add mediocre music.

[chloekat3]

not joking but did you see anything santa? i actually believe theres a workshop somewhere

[startwiththeballs]

in soviet russia, boat sink ice

[Gamefreakzzzzzz]

omfg he is crazy!! there are fucking dangerous animals in this sea!!!!!!!!! 3:55

[morace250]

my favorite icebreaker...so bad ass

[ivonneak]

Sweet.... would love to do something like this gonna put it on my to do list

[morace250]

how much does something like that cost..

[ukpete2006]

Current trips are about UK£15000 or thereabouts

[SirAbdulle]

how can a man pull a ship with a rope?

[ukpete2006]

The rope is made to be very strong so it doesn't break

[zarants]

yay ! in 4 years im gonna be an Officer ( and later captain ) on those kind of ship !

[MrTrueblue00]

A trip like this will set u back roughly 10 grand. Not to mention port and lodging fees to boost. Go ahead and take out that 2nd mortgage, it is a trip of a lifetime!!

[BaronVonGodzilla]

Damn, this is pretty awesome for a vacation! How much did this cost you or how did you set it all up?

[zzripley]

I like cheese!

[AurelioCruzJr]

Bear at 2:01: Whoa, are there people over there?

[MW2KJGF]

EPIIC WTF I WANT TO GO THERE

[Flyalp]

ma che cazzata megagalattica XD E' molto piu avventuroso girar di notte per milano da soli :D

[imallpissedoff]

Yamal is Russian for, "massive radiation leakage".

[boysan7]

I wish to do a holiday like this one....I think is great journey even if my heart get break to see all the ice get broken!!!!!

[ukpete2006]

Luckily the water soon freezes again so no need to worry about the ice.

[davidruedy]

the bear is like wtf is that thing do they got food lolz

[iratkan]

POOR ANIMALS, PEOPLE DESTROY THEIR ICE WITH ICE BREAKERS and nuclear trash

[NightElfHunterAlf]

WHERE THE HELLS IS THE HOLE?

[ukpete2006]

The ship went to the exact Geographic north pole as confirmed by my GPS. The bit where we got out for a walk was the closest piece of big solid ice - maybe within a mile or so of 90 degrees precisely.

[asconan]

I bet the guy at 3:55 will never get an errection again... ever!

[Adragil]

@asconan trust me, you'd be surprised, my friend :)

[asconan]

@Adragil lol don't wanna know man, I'm only kidding besides :D

On the other hand, he (maybe he = you, I suppose) must have balls of steel to do that! lol

[Adragil]

@asconan it;s a thing that a lot of russians do on the 19 of january (day of baptisation)

[asconan]

@Adragil Crazy Russians! :)

[dzoni03]

what a bunch of morons :))



[mpr330cd]

the white bear said..... "get out of the way...... you're scaring the fishes!!!!"

[vasyasol]

whats up with gay music ?

[MrRedeyedJedi]

Hey kids, we're back!! "yay!" we brought you guys back some suevineers!!!! Plutonium for everyone "yaaaaaay" "now I don't need a night light!! "and I can give my goldfish an extra 3 eyes!" :D :D :D 

[Cyrius999]

EPIC!!!AWESOME!!! But this music kills all beuty of this movie....

[Honeytrip420]

2:00 Polar bear : Eh what you guys doin?

[jersonandhazel]

@Honeytrip420 yeah but the vodka is great!!!

[vincent7520]

Would love to go there but certainly not with a bunch of tourists … as a single paying passenger on a working (not cruising) icebreaker would be great (although th food on a russian boat must be terrible !… )

[herrseppl]

@vincent7520 if you have about 300.000€ or, about 500.000 USD, then you can probably go there just with the crew...

[danigodi]

I WOULD LOVE TO DO SUCH AN EXPEDITION

[lilmorris656]

how cold was that water that guys retarded

[ukpete2006]

Water was -1.25 degrees C (lower than 0 due to the salt content). I wasn't the only one who went for a swim - it's the sort of daft thing people do who are daft enough to go to the north pole in the first place.

[sgtpepperoni]

cool but i donno why you would wanna pay to do that. Being a US merchant marine i would only wanna do that if i was getting paid ;P

[lavrinenkohotmail]

@sgtpepperoni: I hear you bro! I'm an ex ch.officer myself, but you know, after some 10 year of being ashore I'd probably love to do that as a tourist.

[anthonykobzunenko]

How can he go in that cold icy water

[C24B9]

@anthonykobzunenko getting is easy; I want to see the video of him coming out....I did notice the safety line attached to him. Kinda makes you wonder....

[ukpete2006]

I got out with 30 seconds. DIdn't feel cold until I'd been standing barefoot on the ice for a bit.

The line is for the Russians to pull me out if I have a cardiac arrest when I entered the water.

All good fun really :-)

[TylerFknMetal]

That's a badass vehicle...

[phatkix]

Cool!

[kaden8483]

Been to north on board US Coast Guard cutter Southwind in the mid 60s. 1st cutter to go up north pole.

[Thetrutv]

Can that thing sink?

[ukpete2006]

Of course. But it is built stronger than just about any other ship - so it is unlikely.

[Borovickar]

@Thetrutv

only by torpedo pal

[herrseppl]

@Thetrutv no...its unsinkable!!! XD omgosh, iceberg right ahead!!!

[debbiedevoe2]

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[FloridaRaider]

wish I had the money, I'd love to do that

[SkipW]

Dig that North Pole Swim Club

[ukpete2006]

Check out the "300 club" at the South Pole. Makes my swim at the North Pole look sensible!

[bogglerful]

They don't show it, but the fellow who jumped in the water at the end was dragged under and eaten.

[gladheateher4now]

20 thousand dallars,and two week holliday. You swim RIGHT at the north pole and drink Russian Vodka. I want to SO do this,wana come ?

[noelligh]

Thank you for that ! this is what the internet is about a complete stranger sharing their holiday with you . I think i will go on one of those holidays Yippie !

[llrond]

heavy duty shit like this owns those fancy cruiser boats any day

[darkbolton]

What happens to the longitude display on a GPS when at 90' N. Does it freak out and oscillate all over the place?

[ukpete2006]

Hi - yes the latitude creeps annoying around the 90 degree mark as you have to get the exact spot of 90 degress, but the longitude whizzes around all over the place. Also what was strange initially was watching the crew on the bridge on the day before getting to the pole whereby we were heading north yet the magnetic compass was pointing behind us (i.e. north was south). Once at the pole, there is no north, east or west and I was in every major time zone (and two days) simultaneously. Great fun!

[pluckyou90]

1:29 that icebear think's "wtf are they doing here??"

[StealthSniper50cal]

What I don't get is everyone freaks out about glaciers melting and ice melting I mean what do the glaciers do for us.

[LetzBeaFranque]

Probably most of the people on the North Pole ice breaker trips are concerned about the demise of North Pole ice. Well, when you travel by ice breaker you expose sea water which is darker in color thus absorbing more light increasing melting. This is contributing to the melting.

[TehBannHammer]

uhmm, i thought breaking the ice in the north is bad for the enviroment?

[AlexRyteuBart]

Very nice!

[zodiacchiller]

How much did this cost you?

[ukpete2006]

It's about US$18000 or so. Latest prices from Quark Expeditions.

[cwkarlos]

nice video! but how can a ship arrives to this latitude?, I didnt know that was possible. How much thick was the ice?

Thanks for the post

[ecrins70]

@cwkarlos It is with it's sistership the most powerfull icebreaker in the world.

[ukpete2006]

It can get to this latitude as it is a nuclear powered icebreak Arctic class which can deal with up to 5m of ice. When it gets stuck (as we did) it has bubbling systems and the ability to shift ballast around the boat so the front of the boat can press down on the ice.

[saadmll]

I feel it its coooold

I can`t live there (:

[avantouimari]

what was the helicopter doing there?

[mrperson296]

@avantouimari I think it just flies you around so you can get a great view, that the ship could not give you. Also, it probably has the ability to do emergency runs, like if somebody was badly injured and needed to be airlifted back to Russia for medical help. You never know what can happen all the way out there. Remember, the only type of ship that could reach Yamal in an emergency is another ice breaker. And that may not be possible in some situations. Its just best to keep a heli on board.

[ukpete2006]

The helicopter was the way on and off the ship - it came with us. It can also be used for reconnaissance if we ran into problems.

[poxflaza]

@ukpete2006 So did you really get to the north pole? i heard the earth was hollow.

[miikantuubi]

Santa lives in Finland, not North Pole! :(

[ukpete2006]

He was on his summer vacation!

[Rhodesian81]

@miikantuubi Santa is a little mushroom ^^

[Adragil]

@miikantuubi i hate to break it to you, but Santa is fake :)

[ukpete2006]

I suspected that when I heard his Russian accent :-)



[bettydaw1970]

i lovethe footage, i love the bangles..but the two dont mix..

why not showcase the sounds of the northpol instead (ie no music at all)

[itspeaks037]

Up NOrth - shold hang out on myspace

[0line]

Love the transition whit the balloon. ;-)

[skullcandylife]

Sweet

[oOEmanOo]

omg did that guy just swim in the frozen water? holy crap

[ukpete2006]

I got a certificate for doing it though

[gusanoimport]

i was there.... is amazing =)

[SkyyCaptainn]

Greenpeace should rent this ship. They could end Japanese whaling in no time

[NICNICNICKIFY]

thats where santa lives ;)

[california342]

wow any idea on the price for the trip ?

[jumbojetcanada]

@california342 about 25k

[federerroddickhero]

wowwwwwwwwwwwww a beautiful trip really.i'ld like to do it.

[ty3165]

that looks a real brilliant holidat i must say

[GameDoctor21]

asking is it cold? on north pole is pointless lol

[WONDOCTORJ]

@Truthexpedition LOL

[mrjimbeam2009]

what did the chow hall serve for meals? was it good?

[ukpete2006]

Food was fine as far as I remember. A decent place to eat inside with good portions of food, and also some food out on deck on occasions

[ecrins70]

@ukpete2006 I am so jalouse that you could do it with your mother. Hope that I can do the same in a few years. How long were you on board?(I know that the boat reached the Pole once in 4 days from Murmansk)) I think you started the sail in the port of Murmansk, did not you? Is about 5000€/person enough to book that kind of voyage? Or do I have to economise much more?

[ukpete2006]

Hi - it's about 10 days on board with a couple of days to get to the ship and back home to the UK either side. This cruise in 2001 went from Svalbard but the start location keeps changing.

Last time I looked the prices were about US$18000/person.

[justdoit999999999999]

epic adventure

[Ura293]

interesting that the author of this video mentioned Russian crew but looks like she has not realised that the icebreaker is also Russian!

[ukpete2006]

Hello. The holiday is advertised as a trip to the pole on a Russian nuclear icebreaker so that was one of the first things we knew about the holiday.

[Ecroo09]

Imagine being a polar bear and seeing that big orange ship in the horizon

[bofhd89o]

ok what about the south pole??!

[HavocGunStar]

@bofhd89o The south pole is sited over a continent. This ship is an ice breaker, not a rock breaker.

[bofhd89o]

@HavocGunStar i know but what i mean is i want to visit the north or the south pole depending on the closest one,and i live in the middle east(or what u can call the middle of the heat lol),question is how can i do that????!!

[HavocGunStar]

@bofhd89o To the South Pole, you would have to fly. I don't think there are any safe harbors on the antarctic continent. McMurdo Station is air-travel only. So if you want to ride to a pole aboard an ice breaker, you'll have to fly to wherever this ship departs from. If you want to visit the South Pole, you'd have to fly to McMurdo, or another location, and either fly on to the pole directly, or go overland.

[garyU6969]

wtf r they doing at 2:55 dancing the macarana? wtf chill ur heading to the northpole LOL!

[ELtercermundista82]

FuCK!!!

I wanna go there!!!!

[1989Goodspeed]

4:04 Swedish (“conventional”) icebreaker Oden II

(Just an observation) ;-P

[tupsumato]

@1989Goodspeed, documentary about "Russian nuclear icebreaker, the first ship ever and the only ship able to reach North Pole", arrival to the pole filmed from the Swedish conventional icebreaker Oden. Kinda like that BMW ad about the fastest jet-powered car in the world...

[ukpete2006]

The Oden needed someone to take some crew and equipment back to civilization so we swapped the free passage for a visit for everyone.

[MourneOne]

You can actually see the earth is round this way.

[Altarcraft]

Go there 10 years later and it will be all water, just water and no ice. Maybe even less than 10 years.

[TSM8088]

The US does not have a ship that can make it to the north pole...only Russia and Canada.

[roofy2k]

polar bear is like wtf? damn that looks like fun

[aknyla]

awesome footage! =)

[tealmarlin]

£12,000 ?!

I can spend One Year is Asia for that same amount, but what ever floats your boat, or icebreaker,

[WONDOCTORJ]

wheres the hollow earth enterance?

[Huijsers]

Some day i will go.

Fantastic video.

Greeting from rotterdam

[Danusha7800]

The trip itself is fantastic. But the footage is FAR from amazing. Not even for a home video.

[almeidas1989]

I have to at least do that for once in my life

[rs05uk]

Looks like much fun to be had!

Nice video.

[jessemparker]

Can we tell these hippies that there's not a hole at the north pole now?

[energiefreak]

that looks cool

[dustoin1386]

i'd kill to take a trip on this thing

[ViperRob42]

OMG was that guy swimming on the North Pole? crazy foo lol

[3RPGJOEBNUTIB]

yamal its russian

[ReyColons619]

That's great and all that but I don't think it's right you destroy polar bears and other animals' habitats because you want to be entertained and in the middle of the global warming too.

[ranjitsisa]

This is really amazing! If fate has it for me, I will one day go there too!

Looks like you need loads of money for this kind of a starrer!

[herrseppl]

some man worked on this ship i meet, and he said the cheapest price is 15000€ wich is about 17000$

[dinnersd]

i ran away to the north pole with my son chris martin

[LudoWander]

where (city) can i find a port to go on boat around the pole north like this video? Exist this service?

[brutusyt]

amazing holiday, when they go again?

[soccermanabc]

3:42 wow insane he is wearing short

[gini100]

wooow..great adventure..

[kababbax]

Awesome

[br3ntor]

Stop destroying Simon and Garfunkel!!!

[Valqk]

Cool

[johnballs]

wonder how much trip like this cost....anyone?

[HerrKryo]

i got an offer from my agency. as i recall it was about 10.000 euro

[legija83]

if u gota ask balls, you can't afford it mate!

[aeternytas]

WONDERFULLLLL

[SwatNero]

envy

[mythros1]

isn't this the expedition that was sent to prove the hollow earth theory? i didn't see a hole.... was it under the ice or do you think it was true north instead of magnetic lol. i bet allot of people where pissed.

[cyberdaemon]

Its under that pile of rock , they covered it up so ETs cant comme and abduct us :D

[cyberdaemon]

Its right at 4:15

[mythros1]

i think that was a monument to all the polar bears they killed lol.

[cyberdaemon]

Maybe these fell into the center of the earth ? So they closed the holed :D

[mythros1]

yes, it must be! Thank you north pole expedition. if it was not for you billions of polar bears and Eskimos would fall in the hole to the center of the earth every year. You are a inspiration to us all. it all makes perfect sence. otherwize if they spent millions of dollars to go to sub zero tepuratues and stack rocks that would be stupid and make no sence at all.

[cyberdaemon]

Are there even billions of escimos and polar bears ? Or they spawn back like some NPCs in FPS games ? :D

[mythros1]

you see my child... when a Eskimo and a polar bear fall in love they make sex and produce millions of eggs. these eggs either turn into penguins or seals. then they fight with each other and evolve like Pokemon. penguin's turn into Eskimos and seals into polar bears. i believe its called Darwinism. ;)

[cyberdaemon]

I thought that darwinims was... Magical god farting the universe into existence in fully developed form about 6 000 years ago , as witnessed in the "greatest science book" , the holy fucking bible as you know it :D But it might be called "holy sucking bible" and also as "holy shit bible" :D

[mythros1]

i think you are confusing darwinism with spore. Darwinism is a cult where people believe that Lenard Neamoy went back in time from the year 20dickety5 and jacked off in the primordial ooze to create life as we know it. Its really scientific stuff. As for the bible, I think that was a story book about a fellow named jebus and all the wacky adventures he got himself into. Something about fish and wine and a prostitute named marry. idk the rest...

[stcaiden365]

hmm very nice but ill stick to the bahamas thank u very much

[diveit]

thats cool

[mpwelk]

Mom has sexy glasses.

[glenlewis3348]

Watching this got me wondering.

Here we have human beings pulling up and stopping in a NUCLEAR ICE BREAKER

to watch polar bears.

Are we so fcuking conceited as a genus that we have to charter nuclear fcuking ice-breakers to see polar bears? - the very same polar bears that need the ice to be pretty consistent to survive :(

How would you like it if a polar bear arrived mob-handed at your house and stated smashing up your backyard?

Oh yeah, sorry, you'd shoot it I guess

[itwillbeokman]

true, gota agree with u

[Frogger0neXx]

Go bone a bear, dude. Youll feel better. Theres so much shit going on in this world, and youre hear tripping about breaking ices?

[hrvatskasad]

what would you like it to be coal or oil powered ? Nuclear has no CO2 emisssions and is in that sence enviroment friendly - actually try and read something before stating your oppinions - actually before stating your bullshit.

[bobMasterVideo]

@hrvatskasad  ok no c02 but still have radioactive shit after the uranium is all used

[hrvatskasad]

@bobMasterVideo Ever heard of depleted uranium ammunition? USA makes sure there are plenty of places to use ammo like that over the world. Kosovo campaign saw some 100 thousand depleted uranium ammo pieces being used, if we calculate the smallest depleted uranium bullet is over 200 grams - do the math.

Actually, to recycle radioactive waste, you should only dip it into molten magma below crust and problem solved.

[Wolfie123123]

Polar bears can fucking swim. And you wouldn't care about your backyard being broken up if your home was the size of a continent.

[fern4ndo0]

I think that for a polar bear who is bored to death in an ice desert with nothing to do except eating and sleeping, arrival of a huge ship with humans is pretty fun.

[legija83]

Yea, but they are annoying British. ughhh the drama. Beats French though :( Bear knows it ;)

[leppy111]

I can assure you those people were nothing but food to that bear- they're like 9 ft tall on their hind legs and they can run like hell.

[Zorica12]

I think they were a safe distance from the bear.

[ecrins70]

@fern4ndo0 Give him some humans :-) Nice video of that powerfull ship btw! Beautifull bear to, one day, when I will be old and will no longer be active in skiing and mountaineering here, I'll take a ticket on such a boat (if we still have ice in the Artic, if not the Antartic!). For now, the Alps are fine for me, living at a small village named Puy St Pierre in the department of the "Hautes Alpes" and loving our beutifull but melting glaciers over here.

[Koroush51]

How much was the trip? It seems like an awesome thing to go do.

Cruise ship extreme pretty much.

[ukpete2006]

Comes out at about GBP£12,000 - expensive but well worth it!

[ieatchickennoodles]

holy shit