Synopsis: The events leading up to the disaster of the North Wind

[tranter1718]

i disagree with some of your post. If it's discussion you want, let's start with the aspects about how and why he was at the ship.

The manual states, "Meteorologist Alexander Nesterov is the last man to abandon the floating station Pole 21. He has received an urgent message from the mainland and must leave the vast Arctic on a comfortable ship which will pick him up at an appointed place at an appointed time. However, instead of a warm reception, the scientist encounters a real nightmare when he accidentally finds himself on board the atomic icebreaker, the North Wind, which for many years has been drifting in a land of eternal ice."

This implies pretty clearly IMO that he did not intend to be on the North Wind. He "accidentally finds himself on board." Therefore, this is not the ship he was meant to board at the instructed time/place. Also, he finds this ship many years after the accident, so the timeline in regards to the incident vs his adventure is not unreasonable.