1897 Fritdjof and Eva Nansen

Engraving of the USS Jeannette trapped in ice. This was the ship that inspired Nansen to build Fram. Sailing from San Francisco in the 1870s, the expedition was an attempt by the United States to reach the north pole. The ship, however, became trapped in the ice off the coast of Siberia and crushed. Debris from the wreck was later found along the coast of Greenland, a fact that fueled Nansen's theories on a north polar current. Fram was built to test these theories by being strong enough to be trapped in the ice without severe damage and drift through these currents.

Laid-Up Hurtigruten Cruise Ships Hired for Mission Impossible 7

In a bid to avoid delays due to COVID-19, the production company Truenorth has chartered the use of the Hurtigruten cruise ships Fridtjof Nansen and Versteralen in order to house the cast and crew of the new movie Mission Impossible 7. Actor Tom Cruise is believed to be contributing to the cost. 

The new Mission Impossible movie is filming in Norway's rugged Møre og Romsdal district through September, and the hundreds of people involved in the process will be staying on board. The team is eager to resume work after filming was halted due to the pandemic in February, an inside source told UK tabloid The Sun, and the cruise ship housing is intended to facilitate a safe return to work. 

The arrangement has received a green light despite one former Fritdjof Nansen crewmember recently testing positive for COVID-19 after returning to the Philippines. Norwegian health authorities have been informed, and no one on board the vessel has reported symptoms or tested positive, according to Hurtigruten. Another round of tests will be conducted for the other crew on board.

The plan may have an additional problem: two Norwegian service sector unions argue that the two ships are now acting as hotels, which would make their foreign crewmembers not seafarers but staff - and therefore working in Norway illegally. "It is completely unsustainable that it should be possible to only dock a boat with a wage level down to [$3.30] per hour," union leader Johnny Hansen said in a statement carried by Newsweek.

Hurtigruten has been no stranger to controversy in recent months. Shortly after resuming service in July, the line's cruise ship Roald Amundsen was sidelined due to a COVID-19 outbreak on board. Her passengers were not informed of the first known infection, and they were permitted to disembark two days later in the Norwegian city of Tromso. Many had already reached the airport and were on their way home by the time that word got out, and a contact tracing effort was launched across Norway. 70 positive cases were ultimately identified.

The firm's chief operating officer has been suspended, and multiple investigations into the company policies and circumstances leading up to the incident are under way. All of Hurtigruten's non-coastal passenger operations have been halted. 

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It's Fritdjof Nansen's birthday.

Casa passiva esempi

Non solo edifici passivi ma anche navi sono stare realizzate per garantire il comfort in condizioni climatiche estreme. Ecco l’esempio della nave “Fram”, realizzata per la spedizione in Artide di Fritdjof Nansen nel 1893. Fu una casa passiva funzionante a tutti gli effetti per proteggere i passeggeri a bordo per 5 anni. L’isolamento dei lati della nave fu ottenuto con feltro catramato, sughero,…

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Fritdjof Nansen and his wife Eva. The reason for the Google Doodle is October 10th is Nansen’ s birthday. I think with the current political climate the interest Google has is in his later work with refugees, but before that he crossed Greenland’s ice cap, attempted a North Polar drift (in which a ship is deliberately locked in the ice and put at the mercy of the currents) and made an attempt on the North Pole. If anyone has only read of Scott and Amundsen, you’ll know Fram was Nansen’s ship which was loaned to Amundsen under the pretense of Arctic rather than Antarctic exploration. Nansen was left in the dark about Amundsen’s intended assault on the South Pole. In the introduction he wrote for Amundsen’s book Sydpolen, Nansen hides a veiled threat that Amundsen had better complete the promised drift. This would be attempted in Amundsen’s ship Maud, with less than spectacular results.