Abandoned Frozen Ships
Those scenes remind the scenes from the “Day After Tomorrow” movie, but it’s not a movie scene. These are abandoned ships left to rust near Kamchatka, Russia.
via android-weeper
see more from English Russia today:
Russians hate American cars so much that they smash them with tanks for scrap metal!
| Tags: abandoned ships, kamchatka, russian ships, ships |
Tip: To get daily entertaiment news like this one, bookmark englishrussia.com or get 
if it's more convinient for you.
if it's more convinient for you.
Our friends publish:Bloggers, send your links! |
|
Back to English Russia Main Page for more articles like this
6:14 pm
Loading ...
Those are some great photos and very desolate looking.
definitely desolate…. these pictures are fantastic!
if you like muse, queen, franz ferdinand, or the cold war kids, check out Carlotta: http://www.CarlottaTheBand.com
awesome, just awesome. way to go, Russia! awesome
Need to build ten more improved versions.
I guess the crews forgot where they parked their ship.
All aboard the failboat!
Kamchatka is also a land of great beauty.
a lovely place for a walk
THE FAILBOAT HAS ARRIVED.
despite the destruction it still looks beautiful.
Failboat is happy
I think these photos are Chutkotka not Kamchatka…
I agree.
It’s Kamchatka. There’s a snowboard film called “Marathon”, one of the scenes was made there.
Failboat? That’s more like a whole fleet of fail.
Why did they founder to begin with? And don’t they clutter up the port, making it difficult for other boats?
And why don’t they sink, when the ice melts?
Yeah, you’re right! This — all of this — is impossible!
I call fakesies!
It IS possible! know why? Because it’s Russia! They are in low water.
this is amazing. are they actually on land, or sticking out through water, or what exactly?
I agree.
The water is not shallow enough for the ships to sink completely. The water is frozen over, obviously. In warmer months you wouldn’t be able to approach the ships due to the water and contamination. I have read that that area, and many of the ships are contaminated with extremely hazardous materials, some radioactive.
Sorry, I meant the water is not deep enough, or too shallow for the ships to sink.
Looks like a very surreal place
very jealous!
Great pictures, but disgusting disregard for our planet.
They should get those things cleaned up and scuttle them to make artifical reefs. It would be the cheapest way to put them to good use assuming you could get them to where you wanted them.
Great pictures but sad to see them.
Anyone have latitude / longitude to see these in Google Earth?
I think it’s here: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=52.992193&lon=158.653049&z=17&l=0&m=s
If you like of course you can make a furnace that recycles the thing by eating it up; it’s too dangerous to have people do that, or of course people would (and perhaps in summer (3 mos.) some do.)
They make lousy artificial reefs of because of the vanadium and copper content, but if you can treat the surface before scuttling it, it might work (make the point moot, encourage reef scavengers, etc.)
Giant Radioactive 60-foot Kamchatka Crabs though…priceless.
Second use for that furnace, too.
Just need a truck of hot butter, and another one of giant tiny crab forks.
Looks like a pretty kewl place to hang out. How’s that for something nice to say? I don’t hate Russia, I’d love to bring some capitalism over there myself. We could remove any toxic stuff if there actually is any and convert the wrecks into summer condos, complete with a Starbuck’s. Maybe it would be a good training camp for a professional football team.
My anti-spam word was vodka. Somehow, that seems rather Russian to me.
Why do some of the ships have Chinese markings?
It seems that the ship was
owened by Chinese people.
That chinese letter “明 (MING)”
means “blightness” in Japanese.
I wonder how many of these were nuclear powered……..
Surely none I hope, but that’s ok, where are the pictures of the frozen nuclear waste dumps;)
awesome buddy
There is a measure of stark beauty in the cold arctic tundra
it is a scrap yard for ships. and the aged out ships are just left here by their owners to rust because it would cost money for them to take it to ship breaking yards
I think I found the place on Google Maps. If it is Kamchatka, then try looking at 52.956650, 158.682318. The resolution isn’t great and the photos are from 2006 but it looks like a plausible site. Depends on how many rusting hulks are lying around, I guess.
Yes. Your marker landed on the very spot I was looking also. To the north across the bay, the cranes and the three smoke stacks can be seen, and to the east, the round storage tank. It is indeed the spot!
To clean this up is a big job. The people who live there cannot be blamed, they do not have the resources to deal with such a thing. Boat junkyards like this are all over, including here in the USA. People all over the world all want the same thing, it is only the governments who want to make differences.
This is really cool! Thanks for the google earth location! Where I live we have an old fleet but it never freezes so we can’t walk up to it.
Russia is beatiful countru
It’s certainly not a sea, that’s for sure!!!
Once again…abandoned. “Oh well, we are somehow not responsible for this therefore we shall simply ignore these marks upon our landscape”
Wow! I borrowed a photo to use on my blog and linked back to your story. Here’s the post. Please let me know if you want me to take it down.
i wonder how much a person could get for all that scrap metal?nice pictures though
Stuff like this would never happen in US or Canada. There will be some smart guy who will recover them and sell… or make something new from this bunch of metal…
Certainly because in US and Canada change old ships on new and process old.
But this photos shows ships, that was thrown with Soviet Empire in the past. Not becaus it’s very old. It’s destroyed because all North was died. We have there only desert-ghost towns, port, plants…
It’s all died with Russia…
Call the gypsis, they will sell this ships to the junk-metal buyer.
[...] Tanker und Kreuzer auf einem eisigen Schiffsfriedhof in Kamtschatka, Russland. Link [...]
oh crap. it’s borealis
[...] Throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union one can find a vast number of abandoned air, sea and land vehicles that have simply been left to rust rather than repurposed or recycled. In other [...]
[...] en English Russia, donde podréis ver muchas más [...]
You know what that scrap metal would be worth in the USA? I small fortune. Get a team of illegal aliens on that and it’d be gone in 2 days. hahaha
What an amazing site
The comment by cigars is accurate and true
I am amazed that with China’s voracious appetite for raw metals - scouring the globe for raw metal for its factories and automotive plants that this treasure trove of steel still exists
Only the metal has got to retreived during the brief summertime thaw period
[...] go on in that monster of a nation. Just the pictures of abandoned Soviet submarine instalations, boats, war planes, strange vehicles, scary labs , KGB underground offices, and odd buildings make it [...]
[...] den russiske halvø Kamchatka ligger der døde skibe indkapslet i isen…creepy [...]
[...] of course there are the links from the Digg-nation: Tetris ice cubes. Creative bookshelves. Abandoned frozen ships. Strange theme parks. And for the ones that grew up in the early 90’s: Rick Astley would [...]
This is in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, I think.
You think these pics are neat, wait until the Democrats & Obama’s stimulus package kicks in.
Haha, Phil. There might be a lot of scraps around the USA like that if Obama keeps it up!
I wanna see Al Gore and his wacks stand on one of those ships and scream…GLOBAL WARMING!!!…I mean…CLIMATE CHANGE!!!
Each picture should and must carry html codes……..
Pictures are so beautiful that cant be shared in any site or blog.
Thanks
The logo of android-weeper is in the pictures, that should suffice.
Posting against sharing on a sharing site… At least they are fair here and leave a link to the author.
Global warming!! hahaha..
DO A BARREL ROLL!
FELL IN LOVE WITH ALL OF THE PHOTOS OF EVERYTHING THAT IS ABANDONED IN RUSSIA, ESPECIALLY THE BEAUTIFUL HOUSES. I COULD JUST LOOK AT THIS ALL DAY. MORE PLEASE!
the ship,shown on this photo,is a fishing factory trawler,
Atlantic-333 project,was built in Stralsund ( East Germany)
in 70s-80s.
was built in 1977
name ” Ehn Welk”
the port of sign Rostock
renamed in 1992 to MING CHANG
info> 1977 EHM WELK 203 ROS 333 Rostock
that’s all ,i could find
and there are stiil some of such type of vessels fishing oceanwide
http://forums.airbase.ru/2009/04/t58463,4–suda-tipa-SUPERATLANTIK.7640.html
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/fitter36/view/147957?page=0
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehm_Welk
Kind of like the SARGASSO SEA with all those old ships stuck in all that seaweed
I can’t believe how much stuff gets abandoned in Russia. It sure seems like someone could find a way to make a few bucks by retreiving all of that scrap iron. With the price of steel these days, it has got to be worth it.
I’m going to claim them as salvage, and wait for global warming to re-float them an go after a white whale
PROBLEM SOLVED ! ! !
[...] only one photographer has ever shot it though, as all the photos out there can be traced back to one [...]
[...] looks like the scene from a “World has ended” movie but this is reality. These ships are abandoned and are lying near Kamchatka, Russia, where they rust and form a treat for the [...]