Arrested ship’s captain is Russian national
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30mj5gq9d5o
Posted by forgottenoldusername
Arrested ship’s captain is Russian national
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30mj5gq9d5o
Posted by forgottenoldusername
34 Comments
Well that explains how something that would almost certainly have to happen deliberately in the modern age could happen.
If he wasn’t Rushian he might not have crashed.
I’ll get my coat
Maybe instead of Russian he should have considered slowing down
And the ship was carrying military destined fuel ?
Hmmmm
Absolutely could be a genuine accident . But really does make you question things .
Russia can go around spraying radioactive dust and chemical weapons on the streets of the UK and UK will f all.
Said it to everyone at work. It was fishy from the start. Hybrid warfare is here (and was, ever since they set fire to the shipping depot or whatever it was a year ago)
This doesn’t mean he is a FSB agent. He could just be an alcoholic with fetal alcohol syndrome and mild brain damage. It is more common amongst Russian captains than you think.
Interesting coincidence given the state of the world
He was just an innocent Russian on holiday in a rush to see the world famous 2.22 km single-span Humber suspension bridge.
Who had ships colliding in the North Sea as the catalyst for WW3 on their 2025 bingo card?
Of all the nationalities he just happens to be Russian. No proof that he did it on purpose at this stage but it would be naïve to not consider it, seeing as these ‘unfortunate coincidences’ in the North/Baltic seas are happening a lot these days and you can sure as shit guess the reaction from Russia if a British captain did this in Russian waters.
>Arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
>A missing crew member from the cargo ship is presumed dead after a search and rescue operation was called off late on Monday.
But what if the missing crew member was disposed of beforehand for actively trying to stop the deliberate allision or simply being in the way.
What a slacker
Surely he could have dragged anchor and broken some international cables while he was at it. What sort of substandard captains are the Russian secret services recruiting these days?
The number of Reddit ‘experts’ here on maritime law and ship handling is something to behold.
This happened on a Monday morning. Nowt to do with what you are thinking and all to do with drunken sailors.
And it’s convenient how one if the sailors is ‘lost at sea’.
Apparently we are the war mongering instigators. No surprise here he is a Russian. It’s ever so coincidental they manage to cause an environmental disaster on our shores on the eve of a ceasefire with Ukraine.
The fact that’s he’s Russian probably makes no difference as to whether it was a deliberate act by “Russia”.
On one hand, it seems too obvious, on the other, is the fact that it’s obvious a double bluff? We live in an international world, and if it’s a state sponsored attack then I doubt nationality is of much significance when a lot of the time a small bag of cash to the right person would achieve the same result.
I have worked on different vessels all over the world for 15+ years (geotechnical and geophysical surveys but on wide range of vessels) and it is very common to have Russian bridge crew. A lot of Ukranians too. Last month I was on a vessel with 2 x russian surveyors and a Ukranian engineer, working for an Italian company in Libyan waters. Very often a complete mix of nationalities whatever project being undertaken.
I am not saying it couldn’t be deliberate, but with US and Russia appearing quite friendly at present, then I think much more likely to be negligence in this case.
I have been on board a vessel when the Russian Captain called bad weather as he wanted to stay in port and go to the pub. Nobody onboard was annoyed with this particular decision…
At this point, surely we should be cutting diplomatic ties with Russia. They are beyond dealing with, so recall the embassy. Fuck em.
Don’t I feel the fool for arguing down the conspiracy theory’s on day one of this adventure🫤
It didn’t alter course for 100s nautical miles. There would be no guarantee it would hit anything. And it was on regular passage.
If it’s a terror act, it’s probably the terror state of Russia behind it. It’s how they operate. That’s why we shouldn’t negotiate with them when their word is worth nothing.
Do ship crews have a detailed knowledge about other ships in their vicinity? Like what kind of ships there are, under what flags they are, their current course and what cargo they carry? I am wondering if such an incident could be aimed at a certain target by the captain without any external intelligence? This may be just a coincidence but from the strategic point of view it’s better to down a ship carrying a jet fuel instead of t-shirts…
this looks sensational…but it’s likely to just be a balls up by someone not being very good at their job. Otherwise we need to imagine Russia have sleeper agents in everyday jobs for the perfect chance encounter to carry out orders.
Hang on, one minute Reddit is saying the US is suddenly a Russian ally, and now it’s saying Russia deliberately rammed a ship carrying fuel for the US military. Which one is it?
We’ve had the Litvinenko poisoning, Salisbury poisoning, hacks directed at our infrastructure such as the NHS attributed to Russia (fucking evil enough to target vulnerable sick people!?) and countless cases of disregard by Russian aircraft flying close to our airspace and now crashing a ship causing likely severe ecological damage on our waters. Outside our borders there’s the shooting down of MH17 and Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, Ukraine war 2014, Chechen war, Georgia war, Syrian war, Ukraine war 2022 and more crimes against humanity! Yet they have the gall to call US warmongers??
At this point, anything short of a total collapse in Russia similar to the Soviet Union before will not be able to satisfy my deepest urge to crush the Ruskis into dust.
Tbf a massive amount of Russians are officers on merchant shipping (i used to work in a maersks pay department) . So there was a high chance the captain was going to be russian. Theres also a high chance he was pissed. The theory he was a fsb agent and rammed on purpose is alot more interesting but i feel this is just a pissed captain who is of nationality that is a high probability he would be.
When I asked this in the thread when news first broke I got ridiculed. Nothing is an accident anymore. It’s Russian asymmetrical warfare.
Damn these unfortunate coincidences sure do pile up around Russians. Imagine if the next American fuel tanker got hit and sunk just to sever an internet cable.
For all those jumping on the conspiracy bandwagon, go here:
[https://www.myshiptracking.com/?mmsi=255805837](https://www.myshiptracking.com/?mmsi=255805837)
and click on the ‘show track’ icon (second icon down to the right of the photo). Look at the course and speed up until the point of impact. There was no significant change in course or speed for the **five hours** leading up to the collision when Solong was still off Newcastle. If it was intentional, that’s a really, *really* good bit of navigation!
I can’t have been the only one to have wondered how accidental that collision was!
We as a nation really need understand we are at war. We may not be directly involved in a hot war like Ukraine currently are but we 100% will be. It is inevitable. Sooner or later Russia on its current path is going to have to be confronted.
I actually hope this is part of Trumps plan. Create an environment where is appears Europe is re-arming. Not to fight but to replace a void left by the US BUT there is no void. Just a massively rearmed NATO and an enemy who believes they are in a position of strength as it appears their enemy is quarrelling and divided. All a ploy.
I was involved in the shipping industry and do a lot of water sports.
It appears that the ship was following a route given to it by the crew and autopilot was in control. The crew were not on watch and were not watching the radar/AIS correctly and the ship was going too fast for the conditions. I also bet you that the dead man’s ship, a switch that needs to be activated every 10 minutes for auto pilot, was turned off.
I’ve heard plenty of stories of this happening on other ships, including passenger ships with British crews. Hitting the ship with A1 fuel like they did this was an accident and down to incompetence. If Russia did want to damage the supply of fuel, they would do something between the docks and airport/ rail line.
The US will likely not face any supply issues as such, as they’ll have reserves and be able to get some here (probably just more expensive).
And if this was on purpose, something would have been done to trigger explosions in other compartments and to sink the ship.
If this is incorrect I will eat my hat I am that confident about this