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11/03/2022

The schooner Noorderlicht in Svalbard🇳🇴
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Photo: swanexpeditions.com
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10/03/2022

Our happy trainees on the tall ship Amazone. Antarctica, January 2022📍
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Photo: Nail Sayfi, Alexander Tolchev
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09/03/2022

We offer a chance to have a sail training voyage to high latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctica in the most ancient, beautiful and environmentally friendly way – under sail.
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Let's meet the fleet:
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🔹The Dutch tall ship Wylde Swan — the largest topsail schooner in the world. She operates in Greenland and Iceland.
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🔹The Dutch tall ship Noorderlicht is a famous Arctic schooner that sails mostly in Svalbard, Northern and Southern Norway.
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🔹The Finnish Schooner Amazone is an ice-class sailing ship that operates in the high latitudes of Antarctica.
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These ships are fitted with all the modern technology and safety equipment for operating in Polar regions.
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Click the link: maritime-practice.com/voyages_all to see all the upcoming voyages and get the sailing experience of a lifetime🌊⛵️
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Photo: swanexpeditions.com, Kirill Tikhonov
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07/03/2022

FAQ. Sail training voyages on tall ships:
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📌Can I participate if I have no experience at all?
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No previous experience is required. We we’ll teach you everything you need to know to sail safely in the first 2 days of your voyage.
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📌 Who can take part in the voyage?
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We welcome all male and female trainees. You have to be 18 and older to take part independently. Children aged 12 and older can also join us when accompanied by their parents.
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📌Is it safe?
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Safety is our key priority. All of the crew have a broad experience at sea and are in possession of all the required diplomas and competences. On the first day of the trip the crew will give a thorough safety briefing on how to behave in case of fire or flooding. You will be taught how to put on a lifejacket, a safety harness and much more.
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📌Will I have an opportunity to explore ashore during the voyage?
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Yes. Each ship is equipped with inflatable landing boats known as Zodiacs. These easy to navigate boats are used for cruising and landings, and let us visit the most interesting places ashore.
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📌How to book a sail training voyage?
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Leave a request at maritime-practice.com, write us via WhatsApp +357 22 232381 or email us at [email protected]📩
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To book your place, you need to pay a 50% deposit within 3 days of receiving your invoice and the remaining 50% must be paid 2 months before the start of the voyage.
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Let us know, if you have questions in the comments below⬇️
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Photo: George Eliseev
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06/03/2022

🐧8 facts about penguins:
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📌Scientists don't know exactly how many species of penguin live on the planet. At the moment the number is between 14 and 18, depending on how they are classified.
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📌Penguins are not only found in Antarctica. They, of course, inhabit the coastal waters of Antarctica and its islands, but also those of New Zealand, South Australia, South Africa, the entire coast of South America from the Falkland Islands to Peru, and the Galapagos Islands near the equator.
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📌The largest penguin (the emperor penguin) is 130 cm tall and weighs 40 kg. The smallest (little, or blue penguin) is 40 cm tall and weighs 1.5 kg. The most numerous species is the Adelie penguin and the rarest is the yellow-eyed penguin, endemic to New Zealand.
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📌Only 4 species of penguin nest in Antarctica — the emperor and Adelie penguins live in the waters and ice around the mainland, while the chinstrap and gentoo penguins live on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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📌Penguins set records for 'flying' underwater. The emperor penguins can reach speeds of up to 40km/h and descend to depths of 500m, staying there for 21 minutes.
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📌The penguins have an excellent vision — they can see better underwater.
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📌The penguins of Antarctica often gather in large groups, moving from the centre to the edges of them to stay warm during the polar winter. Temperatures inside such a group can reach +35°C when the air temperatures are as low as -21°C.
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📌The black and white colour of the penguins is not for beauty but for utility. When swimming in the water, the penguin cannot be seen by predators, neither from above on a dark background, nor from below on a light one.
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Photographs of the sail training voyage to Antarctica in January 2022 by Nail Sayfi.
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05/03/2022

The history of Svalbard is full of fascinating twists and turns. Thanks to its geographical location, mild climate, biodiversity and natural resources, many different cultures flourished here for centuries and many countries had their interest in developing this land.
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Let's go through the major milestones of the history of Svalbard:
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📌 It is unknown who were the first people to see the pointed peaks of the archipelago and set their foot on this cold shore. Historians have speculated that by the 12th century Pomors, Vikings and even Portuguese sailors reached Svalbard, but there’s no hard evidence to support that.
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📌 However, we know who occupied the archipelago 380 million years ago. Svalbard was situated much further to the south then, it was covered in tropical forest and inhabited by dinosaurs. The fossils of the ancient world are now being found in the archipelago so often that you can even take them to the mainland. Paleontologists discovered many new species here. You have to watch your step as you get on this land — you are bound to come across a stone with the imprint of a stone flower!
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📌 1596. Willem Barentsz was the first person to discover the archipelago — he saw the mountains and named them Spitse Bergen and then described his discovery in the diaries of the Dutch expedition which got to the region looking for the way to China.
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📌 1604 — whalers, first Dutch, then English, French and others, descend on Spitsbergen. Over the next 250 years, whaling fleets kill walruses, whales and seals and fight for the new waters. They also invented many new ways to hunt whales and extract blubber (whale oil).
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To be continued⚓️
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Photo: swanexpeditions.com
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04/03/2022

Zodiac cruising in Antarctica❄️
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📍Sail training voyage to Antarctica on the schooner Amazone, January 2022.
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Photo: Nail Sayfi
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09/02/2022

Let’s take a closer look at the tall ship Wylde Swan⚓️
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Right now she is getting ready for our sail training voyages in Greenland this summer. Click on the link to read more: en-sea-practice.com/greenland_expedition_eng ⬅️
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Photo: swanexpeditions.com
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05/02/2022

The Polish tall ship Fryderyk Chopin⚓️
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02/02/2022

Our love for the Arctic led us to a new polar destination: Maritime Practice sets sail for Svalbard❄️⛵️
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Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It is said to be the entire Arctic in miniature: you can find polar bears, walruses and birds' colonies there. Let alone glaciers, icebergs, rocky mountains and the blooming tundra.
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Svalbard is also the most accessible Arctic. There are regular flights from Oslo and Tromsø, that make the archipelago very popular with tourists. But we want to go further and explore Svalbard on the famous Arctic schooner Noorderlicht to reach the most beautiful locations by water.
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There will only be 3 sail training voyages this year:
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🔹28 May – 4 June 2022
🔹4 – 14 June 2022
🔹 14 – 24 June 2022
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❗️As from 26 January 2022, the vaccination is not required to enter Norway, but you have to provide 2 PCR tests and fill in the online form. The entry regulations are subject to change, but we are monitoring the situation daily and will inform you of any changes as soon as possible.
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That means there are no obstacles to make your dream come true!
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Learn more:
en-sea-practice.com/svalbard_11 ⬅️
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Photo: swanexpeditions.com
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31/01/2022

Polar sailing⛵️❄️
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📍The tall ship Noorderlicht in Svalbard, Norway.
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27/01/2022

The voyage to Antarctica on the schooner Amazone in January 2022🇦🇶⛵️❄️
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Let us know in the comments below if you want to get the description of the voyages in 2023⬇️
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Photo: Sayfi Nail
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25/01/2022

The name of the most acclaimed nautical tool “sextant” originates from the Latin “one-sixth” as the sextant’s arc measures 1/6 of a circle — 60°.
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The sextant is used to determine the angle between the horizon and a celestial body (the Sun, the Moon or the star) and using these measurements to find latitude and longitude.
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Sextants have been used in navigation from as early as the beginning of the XVIII century. It’s not quite clear who was the first inventor: the principle was found in the works of Isaac Newton, then around 1731-1733 the English mathematician John Hadley and the American optician and inventor Thomas Godfrey claimed an invention of octant — the prototype of sextant with the arc of 45°.
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A sextant consists of a frame, 2 mirrors, a sighting telescope, sun shades, a graduated scale and a drum gauge. The mirror system allows measuring angles up to 120°. To find your position you’ll also need an accurate clock and some tables.
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When you look through the telescope eyepiece at a celestial body, you see two images superimposed on each other; one image of what is straight ahead of you and one of what is reflected by the upper mirror. When the two images coincide, you read the angle from the scale. When sextants are made, they have in-built errors. They are checked and a table of errors issued and fixed into the sextant’s box.
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A sextant can also be used in the desert, or anywhere on land, by using an artificial horizon, a completely horizontal mirror. The resulting angle has to be halved so only an altitude of up to 60°can be measured. You can’t use this method at sea because of the ship’s movement.
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In the past, when the ship was chasing or was being chased by another ship, the sextant was used to measure the angle of the mast top from the horizon to find out if the ship was getting closer or not and how quickly. You can see that in practice in a good old film “Master and Commander — Far side of the World” starring Russel Crow.
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Knowing how to use a sextant can be really useful as it can’t fail like all the modern electronic devices and GPS. And remember: navigators are never lost they are just temporarily unaware of their position!
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Photo: , wikipedia.org
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23/01/2022

The tall ship Atyla at the Baltic Regatta 2021♠️⚓️
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Photo: .stella
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21/01/2022

In 2021 “Maritime Practice” became a member of AECO (the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators).
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So, what is AECO and what does it mean to be a member?
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AECO is an international organisation for expedition cruise operators working in the Arctic. It was founded in 2003 with its main purpose being to protect the Arctic region from environmental and other damage the tourism can cause.
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AECO aims at managing environmentally friendly, responsible and safe tourism in both vulnerable and dangerous Arctic region.
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The area of the Association’s responsibility covers the regions north of 60 degrees north latitude. The core areas are Iceland, Svalbard, Greenland, Arctic Canada and the Russian Arctic National Park.
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The Association developed a number of the easy-to-use Guidelines for its members.
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These Guidelines include the rules of conduct for all the tourists visiting the region, the information about how to protect Arctic wildlife and plants, how to combat plastic pollution of the oceans and the advice to visitors on how to behave when visiting small communities in remote areas.
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We are very proud to become a part of Association as we truly support its effort to protect the Arctic environment, historical and cultural heritage.
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During our voyages we provide our trainees both with the information about the environmental issues and how we all can help to eliminate them by behaving responsibly and participating in the “citizen science” initiatives.
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Having joined the AECO, we’re now also a part of a great community of the polar cruise operators who always support each other and aim to keep the tourism in the Arctic safe for both the tourists and the region.
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13/01/2022

Our first expedition to Antarctica on the schooner Amazone is over⛵️🇦🇶
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19 days, 1650 nautical miles, storms and calms, whales and penguins, icebergs and ice fields. The Drake Passage, Cape Horn and Ushuaia.
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Antarctica under sail is incredible! Can’t wait to share the first photographs with you🔥
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Photo: Alexander Tolchev
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08/01/2022

The Spanish ship “Nuestra Senora de la Santisima Trinidad” (the name translates to “Our Lady of the Holy Trinity”) was one of the most heavily armed ships of her time — if not the heaviest.
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The “Santisima Trinidad” was designed by Irish naval architect Matthew Mullan. Built in Havana (Cuba) in 1768-1769, the ship had 3 decks and 112 guns which made her larger and more heavily armed than the British “Victory” (the flagship of the Royal Navy at the time).
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Later, the number of guns was increased to 140 and the 4th deck was added making the ship quite a dangerous opponent. All that came at a cost: the “Santisima Trinidad” was very heavy and quite hard to manoeuvre as her sails didn’t respond to light winds. The sailors called her “El Ponderoso” which in Spanish means “the ponderous” as a pun on “El Poderoso” – “the mighty”. The vessel was 61 m long with the displacement of 4,950 tons and carried over 1,000 people and she was more a psychological tool for the Spanish fleet than anything else — her grandeur was supposed to frighten the enemies and keep them away.
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In 1779 Spain declared war on Great Britain, with France as its ally. The “Santisima Trinidad” served as the Spanish flagship from the beginning of that war. Some of her service was successful — she could be seen haul over 50 British ships in the English Channel but the Great Siege of Gibraltar in 1782 was failed by the Spanish fleet.
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In February of 1797 the ship was considerably damaged in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in Portugal and nearly escaped capture by the British. She had to retreat to the safe Spanish waters for repairs and was almost captured by the British frigate “HMS Terpsichore” on the way but again managed to avoid that.
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The last battle for the “Santisima Trinidad” was the famous Battle of Trafalgar on October 21st 1805. Due to her bulkiness and position near the French flagship “Bucentaure”, the “Santisima Trinidad” was attacked by several British ships at once, lost her mast and had to surrender.
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She was scuttled by her British captors not far from Cadiz. The wreck of the ship hasn’t been found yet as all the attempts to positively identify various wreckage near Cadiz failed so far.
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Photo: wikipedia.org
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