Pretty terrifying video here. r/CatastrophicFailure - Final seconds of the Ukrainian cargo ship before breaks... [image] 37,09…

Arvin (ex-Volgo-Balt 189) belonged to a diverse class of river-sea cargo ships built for the Soviet Union in great numbers. They are not designed for unrestricted navigation and a few have sunk in heavy weather. edit: For example Volgo-Balt 214 in 2019: [image] MV Volgo-Balt 214 MV Vol…

She was USSR/Russian from 1975 to 1997, Maltese from 1997 to 2013, Cambodian from 2013 to 2016, and lastly under Palau from 2016. My guess is that the ship had some structural issues and the last owners shopped flags for the least scrutiny.

You so do not want to see that when you look out of the window. Sympathies to the poor sods onboard.

It is the structure in the double bottom that fails first (big noise), then the sides P&S are fractured from bottom up, while the main deck plate is intact acting like a hinge. Bow flips up/down. One hold is flooded but the ship floats on intact hull parts fwd and aft. I wonder what they did then. A…

Was that supposed to be a joke? Seven people died. [image] River/Sea type ship sinks off Turkey Marine Incidents

I was told that M/V Arvin managed to reach the Turkish coast yesterday with all aboard safe in calm weather. Ship managed to send a video of the incident. Strange case. I wonder why they couldn’t use the lifeboats.

Here’s some footage filmed from other ships: [image] Video footage of M/V Arvin braking in two Video footage of M/V Arvin braking in two On 17.01.2021, at 12:35 pm, the research conducted by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure based on the distress... …

The last 1/2 a second or so of the very first video showed that the Bridge Team had their survival suits on so maybe they were already aware of impending disaster? Or they get changed an awful lot quicker than her indoors does. The recorded conversation prior to the catastrophe doesn’t give any hi…

The ship seemed to go down quite quickly, it doesn’t look like they had time to launch the lifeboats they still look in the stowed position in the video. It didn’t sound like the person making the mayday call on the radio could speak sufficient English to get the appropriate request for assistance …

Ukranian cargo ship breaks in half

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Klaveness January 31, 2021, 7:30am 11

Was that supposed to be a joke? Seven people died.

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Ukranian cargo ship breaks in half

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