Interesting Impronptu rendez-vous, The Russian nuclear icebreaker ”50 Years of Victory” meets The French icebreaker vessel ”Commandant Charcot” at the North Pole.
Interesting Impronptu rendez-vous, The Russian nuclear icebreaker ”50 Years of Victory” meets The French icebreaker vessel ”Commandant Charcot” at the North Pole.
paying for a luxury cruise to the literal North Pole and then a nuclear powered monster just casually pulls up next to you. The scale of those icebreakers is terrifying and beautiful at the same time
Lurking_poster on
Man they got real up close for a bit. Kind of surprised. I know these things are massive but would still be worried about an accidental bonk.
BloodJunkie on
was anyone else really hoping the boats would kiss?
TraditionalPush4418 on
mad moment
JoeSchmoeToo on
OK but where is the North Pole? I don’t see it
TheKnightsRider on
and after mating briefly, both boats go their seperate ways. The father has nothing to do with raising the infant yatch once its hatched.
Proctolicious on
hard to imagine flying a drone near a helicopter like that is super safe…
jonnyg1097 on
Is it rare to come across another boat in the north pole that when they do they wave at them like this?
International_Hat799 on
Friendly, friendly, dont shoot
Helpful-Relation7037 on
Did they touch tips before leaving
OGCelaris on
Did the French repurpose a cruise ship?
DomDeV707 on
Commandant Charcot is an ice-breaking cruise ship. They definitely got a bonus on that voyage!
Dramatic-Stop-5257 on
So they are both icebreakers? And one is a cruise?
Stop breaking the ice… You causing the ice to melt sooner haha
jackrabbit323 on
zevonyumaxray on
That’s a lot of barns that didn’t get their red paint.
iDontRememberCorn on
# Impronptu – the word of 2026.
zwifter11 on
I find it interesting how that Russian ship is powered by a nuclear reactor. When 99.9% of civilian ships are fuelled by heavy oil, diesel or kerosine.
matron999 on
Those are really awesome shots! thanks for sharing.
Large-Treacle-8328 on
Of course the French vessel looks like a cruise ship.
Scar3cr0w_ on
One looks like a cruise ship… one looks like one of those floating iso container ships the UK tried to house immigrants on.
prenderm on
You think they traded booze and cigarettes?
VaATC on
I assume it is the French ship that looks most like a cruise ship 😆
VicenteOlisipo on
*50 лет Победы* is a cool name, but it’s also ironic in that by 1995 the USSR already didn’t exist and it also dates your ship pretty hard considering WW2 already ended 80+ years ago.
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Are the Russians lost? Surely there cannot be any undersea cables to cut up there?
just people meeting people – it could be so easy
Breakin’ ice and makin’ nice
“Get the helicopter out of the hangar, quick!”
“But Captain, it can’t fly in these condit-“
“We’re not flying it, we just need to flex on the other guys that we have a helicopter too.”
https://preview.redd.it/j495eho1vrbg1.png?width=570&format=png&auto=webp&s=9b396aee546c79ed18da2bf63700312e648f853d
paying for a luxury cruise to the literal North Pole and then a nuclear powered monster just casually pulls up next to you. The scale of those icebreakers is terrifying and beautiful at the same time
Man they got real up close for a bit. Kind of surprised. I know these things are massive but would still be worried about an accidental bonk.
was anyone else really hoping the boats would kiss?
mad moment
OK but where is the North Pole? I don’t see it
and after mating briefly, both boats go their seperate ways. The father has nothing to do with raising the infant yatch once its hatched.
hard to imagine flying a drone near a helicopter like that is super safe…
Is it rare to come across another boat in the north pole that when they do they wave at them like this?
Friendly, friendly, dont shoot
Did they touch tips before leaving
Did the French repurpose a cruise ship?
Commandant Charcot is an ice-breaking cruise ship. They definitely got a bonus on that voyage!
So they are both icebreakers? And one is a cruise?
…people without politicians….
“Pass to port! **PASS TO PORT!!**”
“Oh merde, désolé/Ох, черт, извините!!”
https://preview.redd.it/2q2fijwe3sbg1.jpeg?width=601&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d260e7616ddc1e399f4008acda2067da22f1fbc
“50 years of victory”, what a name for a ship.
Are the boots going to mate?
Stop breaking the ice… You causing the ice to melt sooner haha
That’s a lot of barns that didn’t get their red paint.
# Impronptu – the word of 2026.
I find it interesting how that Russian ship is powered by a nuclear reactor. When 99.9% of civilian ships are fuelled by heavy oil, diesel or kerosine.
Those are really awesome shots! thanks for sharing.
Of course the French vessel looks like a cruise ship.
One looks like a cruise ship… one looks like one of those floating iso container ships the UK tried to house immigrants on.
You think they traded booze and cigarettes?
I assume it is the French ship that looks most like a cruise ship 😆
*50 лет Победы* is a cool name, but it’s also ironic in that by 1995 the USSR already didn’t exist and it also dates your ship pretty hard considering WW2 already ended 80+ years ago.
Helicopter has Ukraine flag colors. Love it.