“The lawsuit was filed by the Canadian company One Ocean Expeditions Ltd in connection with the previous commercial activity of the vessel“ Akademik Ioffe ”, - RIA Novosti reported.

Earlier it became known that the ship "Akademik Ioffe" of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences was detained in Denmark at the suit of a third party. 

On board the Russian research vessel "Akademik Ioffe", which was detained in Denmark, there are 38 crew members and 23 researchers.