A Florida man was arrested when he tried to "escape to London" across the Atlantic in a makeshift hamster-wheel craft. The BBC writes about it. The US Coast Guard intercepted Reza Baluchi on August 26 about 70 miles (110 km) from Tybee Island (Georgia).…
The official Twitter account of the press service of the US Sixth Fleet reports that the United States has sent a USCG Cutter Hamilton patrol boat to the Black Sea. Sixth Fleet tweets said the USCG Cutter Hamilton is heading to the Black Sea after being trained with the destroyer USS Roosvelt ...
In the Mediterranean, migrants heading to Europe hijacked the tanker that rescued them after realizing that its crew was going to return them to Libya. Representatives of the armed forces of Malta have freed an oil tanker captured by migrants off the coast of Libya, the BBC writes. Now the tanker is heading to the port of Malta with a crew ...
The German shipyard Nobiskrug has finished building the yacht of billionaire Andrei Melnichenko. No one has ever built such large sailing ships in the world, writes Forbes. The fact that the 5-year project for the construction of a new yacht for Andrey Melnichenko ended today with the handover of the vessel to the customer, the German TV and radio company NDR reported ...
A Russian sailor, who was intoxicated, ran aground off the coast of Scotland, the British bulk carrier Lisblin Seaways. This was the conclusion reached by the Maritime Accident Investigation Department, which was investigating the circumstances of the shipwreck in early 2015. Dry cargo ship "Lisblin Seaways" with a deadweight of 7 thousand tons ran aground at full speed, poured into the sea ...
The reconnaissance ship SSV-208 Kurils of the Russian Pacific Fleet approached the Nobel Discoverer vessel of the American oil and gas company Shell Oil Company in the Arctic, Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis told CNN. The incident occurred on Sunday. Nobel Discoverer was searching for oil in the Chukchi Sea to the north...
US surveillance ships, aircraft and satellites are closely monitoring the movements of the Russian research vessel Yantar, which was cruising near the US naval nuclear submarine base Kings Bay. According to the Pentagon, the ship can study the routes of American submarines, The Washington Free Beacon reports. ABOUT…
In the Sea of Okhotsk, 300 km from Magadan, the autonomous freezer trawler “Far East” sank on Thursday night. According to the latest data, 56 people died as a result of the crash. In total, there were 132 people on board, including 78 Russians, four…