Korsars in Arctic regions

We are five solid and dear "Korsars", everyone in a rank not below "Admiral" have gone to Arctic regions to become forwarding and crew boats on ice breaker "Captain Dranitsyn " which this time, carried out a role of a tourist vessel. We were proud because that to us have entrusted to carry tourists and divers on walks on Arctic Ocean. The ice breaker, having hooted a withdrawal, has gone from Murmansk to Spitsbergen - Gruman in Old Russian way where, having taken aboard tourists from all world, has moved, moving apart ices to the most northern archipelago - Franz Josef land. July, 2003 has stood out hot in Arctic regions: air a minus -10C, water a minus – 1C, an ice wind. Weather that is “wonderfull” also we were got from the bags, filled with air lowered from a deck in dark waters of the Arctic ocean. It is invigorates. We have put 40-strong motors as engines on transoms 40 strong motors. Rich tourists from all of the world, in life jackets, took seats on our boards. Imagining, that each person has paid $500 for one night of the Arctic cruise, we were proud of ourselves! Here rich Japanese family, in their country it is not favorable to save money and they spend them, driving around of the world and enjoying of life. Here is a gentlemen from the USA and Canada, some representatives from television studies from Europe and America, eminent photographers and simple fans of adventures. 38 years “Ms. Switzerland” dexterously sit near to mister from Germany. The motors bagan to work and we were incurred along ice fields to islands, which here are near by 190. Videocameras and cameras have earned, writing down local beauty.

We shall descend on ices, we shall find traces.
 Here hopes lay at the frozen water.
 And absolutely gray-haired, Nansen went here,
And rescueing others, Amundsen was lost here.

Jury Vizbor sang about these places so. It is a little having taken for a drive public, we have moored to ice floes, where there were walruses .
– Well, goggle-eyed pigs, have filled the stomaches bottomless and roll, idlers? - has grumbled the most deserved, orange ADMIRAL.
- And only you could eat a lot, around of a continuous ice! There are no grain, nor winter, acorns of ripe on thousand kilometers of district, - the grumbler was not appeased.
- Yes, they are inflatable, as well as we are, - someone from us has guessed, all were delighted. In the meantime, divers having fastened cylinders, have got into water with video and the photo equipment. They have borrowed in underwater shooting of icebergs, walruses and us. – I feel, that they photo me naked in a bath, and I pose them, - Admiral has joked with Japanese.
Walruses are as 4 meter bags with moustaches are more rigid than a shoe brush, weight under ton and in flippers! From their muzzles, canines on a floor of meter in length hang down. From apart they are similar to greater worm, and in the vicinity on police officers. It seems, that now it will get a striped stick, whistle in a whistle and will tell: "Captain Walrus, show the documents, please!". "The captain of whom?" - it would be possible to bite.
Suddenly, in several centimeters from my board this monster comes up, is weak-sighted blinks and lows.
What it do you want, cow? - I ask. And it with all make a fool, as jump to me aboard with all its weight and allow to stick with the canines into cylinders.
 -What do you do an aggressor? Are you crazy from a cold?
And it annoying, cannot calm down, dives, tries to rip up of a board and the bottom with the canines. And the main thing tourists of my photograph it smile. I am afraid and they are dared, have fun. They think that it is an attraction, that the walrus is trained and under an ice floe its trainer sits. There is such extreme in ocean. I was so insolent, so puffed up, just cylinders were more rigid. The weight turns out of us with it identical as on my board the person ten, and at it canines, but my board reliable. So we butted with it, while its muzzle has not got under a jet of warm water from the engine working on single turns. Here it at once he has languished. A jacuzzi at Arctic Ocean! A smile up to a nape, eyes has blinked and rumbled as my motor absolutely manual became.
- Do not sleep, you will sink, - I have begun to worry about new familiar. And its dark nape has disappeared in depth.
- Well, well, we shall meet in a following life. But the squabbler did not gather sink, it has come up near to other boat and, scaring away divers, the beginnings with it to make advances, probably, wishing to become related. The slow walrus on a land, in water has appeared extraordinary dexterous. Who knows the and - wedding or not - It is not known, only the motors again began to work and we have rushed from walrus-ice floes to stony islands. Tourists removed all successively: beautiful ocean, the high sky, gloomy rocks, huge multi-coloured icebergs and certainly itself on a background of these paints. Zodiac Mark IV sanded aside us for several days, it were one, and us were five. After all we have become friends. Nice small – it is all black,  as cut down with axe from an integral piece of rubber, fine-moulded forms, but without stripes, as at us. It is very similar to the enemy saboteur. "Zodiac is too expensive ", - tourists spoke. "The zodiac, as though haughty ", - we translated, not observing it for them. Certainly, it is necessary to learn language. But for us Admirals it is not the problem and with this problem we shall consult.

Boats Korsar "Admiral"
Arctic regions Summer of 2003. On "KORSAR"