The Russian Embassy in Denmark: the ship “Akademik Ioffe” was detained at the suit of the Canadian company 
– research vessel “Akademik Ioffe”, was supplied by the Canadian company One Ocean Expeditions Ltd. due to his previous activities. Such details of the incident were disclosed at the Russian embassy in Copenhagen, TASS reports.
Attaché of the Russian diplomatic mission Maria Syrovatko noted that she had no information about the trial.
Earlier, the embassy reported that at 38 crew members and 23 scientific workers are on board the detained vessel, contact has been established with them. The diplomats noted that, if necessary, the crew and researchers will be provided with consular assistance. It became known about the detention of the vessel on November 4.
“Akademik Ioffe” belongs to the Institute of Oceanology. P.P. Shirshov of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The ship is named after the Soviet scientist physicist Abram Fedorovich Ioffe. It was built in 1988. Among other things, it was used for experiments on long-range sound propagation in the ocean.