1/ The two oil tankers that have sunk in the Kerch Strait were specialised but obsolete river-sea vessels that should not have been operating at all, according to Russian sources. They were supposed to have ceased operating at sea in 2008 under Russian and international regulations. ⬇️ - ThreadSky

chriso-wiki.bsky.social • 105 days ago

1/ The two oil tankers that have sunk in the Kerch Strait were specialised but obsolete river-sea vessels that should not have been operating at all, according to Russian sources. They were supposed to have ceased operating at sea in 2008 under Russian and international regulations. ⬇️

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carlypeterpan.bsky.social•105 days ago

I still think they hit their own underwater sea mines. And a third barge with a crane on also went down. That's not from a wave.

itautra.bsky.social•105 days ago

Russian regulations...I remember when the Russian trawlers started to come to Norway's harbors. Regulations, they barely were held together by rust.

realld007.bsky.social•105 days ago

Russians doing Russians things...

timmay2.bsky.social•105 days ago

Great update. Thanks

jakobdahl.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

jansoderholm.bsky.social•105 days ago

Will Greta Thunberg or any other environmental activist give a shit about this? No, because its not a western democracy that is responsible.

includeproxies.bsky.social•105 days ago

of course we give a shit. stop inventing non existent enemies

jansoderholm.bsky.social•105 days ago

Why don’t I see her and others protesting in the streets about it? The Russians has caused several environmental disasters in Ukraine, like blowing up the Kakhovka Dam in 2023, but also by laying millions of mines and the landscape littered with blown up heavy vehicles leaking all kinds of shit.

privatebrewing.bsky.social•105 days ago

"They were supposed to have ceased operating at sea in 2008"

Tbf: they have ceased operating, now.

derkrustenshultz.bsky.social•105 days ago

Zing

mike20490420.bsky.social•105 days ago

The front fell off

yakhappy.bsky.social•104 days ago

It's outside of the environment!

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•105 days ago

2/ The tankers Volgoneft-219 and Volgoneft-239 sank today in a severe storm near the Kerch Bridge, killing at least one person and spilling 4,500 tons of heavy fuel oil (mazut) into the sea. They were operated by the Samara-based company Volgotanker.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•105 days ago

3/ This is not the first accident to have befallen the Volgoneft tanker fleet. A very similar disaster happened during a storm on 11 November 2007, when Volgoneft-139 broke apart in the Kerch Strait, spilling at least 1,300 tons of fuel oil into the sea.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•105 days ago

4/ The ships were designed to deliver oil and fuel products along the Volga river to Russian ports on the Black Sea. They are single-deck twin-screw tankers with double bottoms, double sides, forecastle and poop, a superstructure and an engine room in the stern.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•105 days ago

5/ They were laid down in Volgograd in 1969 and 1973 respectively and were among the 131 Project 1577 river-sea oil tankers built between 1967 and 1982. By 2017, two of the class had been lost in accidents and nine more had been scrapped.

danielhaknsson.bsky.social•105 days ago

I'm surprised it's that few. Do you have a source? It seems both a pretty good record and few scrappings. I would have thought at least a dozen sunk and at least half of the class scrapped or so..

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•105 days ago

6/ The Project 1577 tankers now have an average age of nearly 50 years and do not meet the requirements of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). In particular, their cargo tanks are excessively long and they lack settling tanks or sufficiently high double bottoms.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•105 days ago

7/ Under the IMO's International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), the tankers were supposed to have stopped operating at sea transporting heavy oil and oil products (i.e. cargo with a density of 0.900 t/cu. m. and greater) since 2008.

bernob.bsky.social•105 days ago

Orcs live up to their reputation; shit follows where ever they go.

davidhelms570.bsky.social•105 days ago

Adding #RussiaIsSinking to #RussiaIsCollapsing. I can't imagine a better metaphor for Russia: a decrepit, rusting, vessel breaking up under minimum force.

wanderlustzero.bsky.social•105 days ago

And spreading corruption everywhere needlessly

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