Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)

I saw a youtube video of a single mother who job it was to cut out the ice from underneath the ships to create space to do the repairs. Apparently its a very dangerous job because you can easily end up frozen to the river if you're not careful. Must be the same one mentioned in the article.

youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9P3VaMCho

There is a good YT channel I subscribe to from a person in Yakutsk who makes interesting videos on life there:

https://www.youtube.com/@KiunB

Interesting choice of tourism destination, but quite cool (no pun intended...) regardless.

One of the most annoying things about working with anything metal at those temperatures, is that your tools will pretty much instantly become stuck to whatever it is you're trying to manipulate, making a propane burner an indispensable addition to your toolbox.

Skip the dry dock, just chainsaw the river until it freezes deep enough, peak yakutsk engineering

I don't see the wheels on the boat with wheels - is it the "paddle wheel in the next shot?

Unrelated: is there a delay on HN between submission and publication? I posted that article a few days ago and the header is now "3 hours ago".

How bad is it for a ship's hull to get frozen in ice? Are these ships all reinforced? Are there clever mitigations this "drydock" undertakes?

So all these ships are immobilized till summer when the ice melts? But winter is the time for repairs etc?

Huh, that actually seems pretty convenient. It's like a subtractive scaffold

This looks like real life MineCraft.

The -50 makes it actually easier, because it's you know on top of the river instead on in the river at this point.

Thanks for the story!

The pictures of this technique triggers my submechanophobia - especially the photo of the two people working underneath the ship.

Coming back from warm and cozy Oman Al Hajar mountains and Wahiba crossing, this makes my cry. So beautiful and interesting planet we live on !!

It's not okay to casually appreciate the vacation pictures of a corrupt Russian oligarch, even if they overlap with an area of technical interest.

Kapersky is part of a corrupt regime that has killed tens of thousands of innocent Ukrainian civilians and murdered leaders of rival political parties. You can get numb to it, but it is a horrible, historic war crime. He is complicit and his boat pictures can go to hell.