Russian scientific vessel Severny Polyus is seen caught in the arctic ice some 440km south of the north pole on June 6, 2023. A Russian national onboard the ship was evacuated at the request of their Russian counterparts. The Norwegian authorities launched a Super Puma helicopter from Longyearbyen, the main town of Svalbard, 500 nautical miles (925 km) away, to evacuate the Russian, whose state of health has was deemed too critical to be treated on board ship. “It's at the extreme limit of what the helicopter can do” in terms of range, spokesman for the Norwegian Rescue Center in Bodo, Rune Danielsen, told AFP. (Photo by Sysselmesteren Svalbard/AFP Photo)





Members of Greenpeace sail next to a tanker “Ust Luga” as part of a protest against delivering Russian oil to Norway, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to Greenpeace, near Asgardstrand, Norway on April 25, 2022. (Photo by Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB via Reuters)





In this Friday, February 28, 2020 photo provided by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute the icebreakers Kapitan Dranitysn, front, and Polarstern, rear, are pictured in the Arctic ice. (Photo by Steffen Graupner/Alfred-Wegener-Institute via AP Photo)





People play at the Rhine river that has lost a lot of water due to the heat in Bingen, Germany, Sunday, July 29, 2018. (Photo by Frank Rumpenhorst/DPA via AP Photo)





The decommissioned USS Independence is towed through the ship channel on her final voyage to the Port of Brownsville on Thursday, June 1, 2017, near Port Isabel, Texas. The ship had left Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, on March 11 and was towed around Cape Horn in South America to the Port of Brownsville. (Photo by Jason Hoekema/The Brownsville Herald via AP Photo)





Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Taryn Armington and Sonar Technician (Surface) Seaman Darian Joseph prepare to cast off mooring lines for the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) as the ship departs Naval Station Norfolk to support hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico Friday, September 29, 2017 in Norfolk, Va.. The Department of Defense is supporting the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the lead federal agency, in helping those affected by Hurricane Maria to minimize suffering and is one component of the overall whole-of-government response effort. (Photo by MC3 Brittany Tobin/U.S. Navy via AP Photo)





Brig “Rossiya” (Russia) with scarlet sails floats on the Neva River past Troitsky bridge during a rehearsal for the festivities marking school graduation in Saint Petersburg, Russia on June 13, 2019. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





The French-made cruise ship “Celebrity Edge” of the US company of tourism cruise, Celebrity Cruise, leaves the shipyards of Saint-Nazaire to go to Miami, United States, on November 4, 2018 in Saint-Nazaire, western France. (Photo by Sebastien Salom Gomis/AFP Photo)





The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia lays on its starboard side after it ran aground off the coast of the Isola del Giglio island, Italy on January 13, 2012. Italy is marking the 10th anniversary of the Concordia disaster with a daylong commemoration, honoring the 32 people who died but also the extraordinary response by the residents of Giglio who took in the 4,200 passengers and crew from the ship on that rainy Friday night and then lived with the Concordia carcass for another two years before it was hauled away for scrap. (Photo by Giuseppe Modesti/AP Photo)





The vessel MV Wakashio, belonging to a Japanese company but Panamanian-flagged, that ran aground and caused oil leakage is seen near Blue bay Marine Park in southeast Mauritius on August 11, 2020. (Photo by Sumeet Mudhoo/L'Express Maurice/AFP Photo)





The MS Princess Seaways battles through the waves off Tynemouth pier as gale force winds hit the North east UK on September 25, 2020. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)





This photograph taken on November 5, 2021 shows American operator Royal Caribbean Cruise ship (RCCL) new cruise ship “Wonder of the seas” leaving the “Chantiers de l'Atlantique” shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, western France, heading for Marseille's harbour. (Photo by Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP Photo)





The World Dream cruise ship is seen returning to the port of call at the Marina Bay Cruise Centre on November 8, 2020 in Singapore. Genting's Dream Cruises, The World Dream vessel has been approved by the Singapore authorities to begin a pilot cruise to nowhere, for Singapore residents on November 6 amid the COVID-19 pandemic to give a much needed boost to the local tourism industry. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)





Spectators crowd a pier as they watch a Chinese ship carrying giant cranes approach the entrance to Hampton Roads in Hampton, Va., Monday, January 7, 2019. The four new ship- to-shore cranes are part of the $320 million expansion of Virginia International Gateway. (Photo by Steve Helber/AP Photo)





Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS prince of Wales sails from HMNB Portsmouth on a NATO deployment, May 23 2022. (Photo by Shaun Roster/South West News Service)