Ship Operations in Extreme Low Temperature Environments

Alexander Arnfinn Olsen is currently employed as a senior consultant for RINA Consulting Defence Ltd, a subsidiary of RINA SpA—the Italian national ship registry. Prior to this, he worked as a training and instructional designer for the Royal Navy. He has also been a marine assurance surveyor for the oil and gas industry in Scotland and an inshore fisheries observer for the Scottish Government.He has published several titles in seafaring, ship operations, and maritime engineering.

• The Arctic environment.- Introduction.- The Arctic environment.- Arctic oceanography.- Preparing the vessel for Arctic operations.- Operating in Arctic conditions.- Arctic vessel requirements.- Arctic vessel hull structure materials, welding and coatings.- Arctic vessel hull construction and equipment.- Arctic vessel systems and machinery.- Arctic vessel safety systems.- Requirements for specific vessel types.- Polar class notations.- Structural requirements for polar class vessels.- Machinery requirements for polar class vessels.- Requirements for enhanced polar class notation.- Requirements for vessels intended for navigation in first-year ice.- Baltic ice class notation.- Crew health, safety and welfare.- Extreme low temperature safety.- Extreme low temperature training.