The Bourne Ultimatum Monocular

From the research vessel to the classroom?

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To Germany longest-serving research vessel - the "Professor Albrecht Penck" from Stralsund - arguing for weeks the Ministry of Education of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Stralsund Oceanographic Museum. The Maritime Museum would like the last autumn decommissioned "Penck" preserved as a museum ship. The Ministry of Education they would rather make money. On Thursday, buyers could go in the Stralsund shipyard to visit people on board.

long tradition of marine biological
One of the first aboard the "Penck", Holger Brydda, chairman of the Friends of the Maritime Museum. He refuses to give up his dream of a future of "Penck" in Stralsund. "The genius is that the ship is just here in Stralsund, and that it has a long tradition of marine biology," says Brydda. It is a research vessel that would offer an ideal floating classroom - especially for biology classes.

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Oldest German research vessel is retiring after nearly 60

years of service, the research vessel "Professor Albrecht Penck" out of service. Future, it should dienen.mehr students as a floating laboratory

support for the Maritime Museum
However, the museum was given no money for the "Penck" - and it estimated the financial difficulties of the owner of "Penck" - the land. The Ministry of Education decided: the "Penck", built in 1951 in Stralsund as a great fishing boat, later used for decades by researchers Rostock, Baltic Sea, is auctioned in Stralsund - to the highest bidder. When this was known in the city, some of Stralsund were immediately ready to support her at a maritime museum to purchase the "Penck.
Even more money is missing
estimated at 50,000 €, the former captain of the Penck "their resale value. A few thousand euros, the Maritime Museum claims to have already promised to get donations. "Hope dies last. Although we are only a small club, but we can compete against tough competition really do not know," says the chairman Brydda development association. Nevertheless, we will make an offer. By 17 February is the deadline for submission. Then give the Ministry of Education awarded the contract. The decisive factor, according to a spokeswoman, will definitely be the price - and not the concept.
Yet another solution?
The competition for the Maritime Museum is great - this was during the visit on Thursday quickly apparent. Six interested parties looked at the ship, as said Holger Wandsleb as representatives of the Ministry of Education. In addition to the Friends of the Maritime Museum were five applicants from Greifswald, Wismar and Hamburg on the ground. But maybe there are signs of a solution to the conflict: a prospective client from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern have a use model proposed, after which the vessel could be used in addition to their own use as a floating classroom, said Wandsleb.
would then close the circle: Since 1951, the "Penck" in the service of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR on the seven seas. Between 1992 and 2010 the research vessel was used by the Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW). It traveled more than 640,000 nautical miles.