Author(s): F. G. Bercha
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Abstract: Safe and reliable methods for the evacuation of installations or ships in polar marine ice conditions have not been developed. Following a review of the difficulties with polar evacuation, this paper describes general conceptual engineering solutions for reliable safety craft for polar evacuation and survival. A reliability analysis for the new systems for various ice conditions compares their performance to that of conventional methods under polar conditions. The reliability analysis confirms the need for new developments to assure safe emergency evacuation and survival for installations and ships in polar conditions. Detailed conclusions and recommendations for further work are given.
Year: 2002