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An icebreaker is a brief facilitation exercise intended to help members of a group begin the process of working together or forming a team.They are commonly presented as games to "warm up" a group by helping members get to know each other and often focus on sharing personal information such as names or hobbies.
This is a list of icebreakers and other special icebreaking vessels (except cargo ships and tankers) capable of operating independently in ice-covered waters. Ships known to be in service are presented in bold .
Tarmo is a Finnish steam-powered icebreaker preserved in the Maritime Museum of Finland in Kotka.Built in 1907 by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, she was the third state-owned icebreaker of Finland and the last Finnish steam-powered icebreaker to remain in service.
Yamal can break ice while making way either forwards or backwards. Yamal is one of the Russian Arktika family of icebreakers, the most powerful icebreakers in the world. These ships must cruise in cold water to cool their reactors [failed verification], so they cannot pass through the tropics to undertake voyages in the Southern hemisphere. [3]
Diversity Icebreaker is used to work on a wide range of subjects from focus on communication and interaction in general to more specific topics like team development, intercultural relations, learning styles and conflict resolution.
The 6-metre (20 ft) wide ice belt, where the hull plating was over 50 millimetres (2.0 in) thick in the bow, was designed to withstand ice pressures of up to 1,000 tonnes per square meter (about 1,400 psi), more than 30 to 60 times as much as normal merchant ships at the time.
[26] [27] With a total propulsion power of 60 megawatts (80,000 hp), Chukotka is designed to be capable of breaking 2.8 metres (9 ft) thick level ice at a continuous speed of 1.5–2 knots (2.8–3.7 km/h; 1.7–2.3 mph) at full power when operating in deep water at design draught.
Breaks ice on the River Oder: Stettin: 1933: Steamship, now a museum ship Eisbrecher I: 1871: One of the first European icebreakers Eisbrecher II: 1877: Eisbrecher III: 1892: Eisvogel: 1960: a 500-ton naval icebreaker, since 2010 Italian tugboat Eisbär: 1961: a 500-ton naval icebreaker, scrapped in late 1990s Kienitz: ENI 05027290: 1958 ...