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Earlier footage is from the 2013 sinking of the MV Atlantic Confidence. Second doesn’t even look like the Rubymar.
https://memac-rsa.org/en/gallery/m_v...ch_2013
https://memac-rsa.org/en/gallery/m_v...ch_2013
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Thank you both for the updates. The funnel livery was completely different too.
I am sure that the insurers would be interested to know whether it sank or not.
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Rubymar still afloat but down at the stern with a flooded engine room.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68363692
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68363692
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https://news.sky.com/story/us-and-br...yemen-13080557
US and Britain strike more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen
The US and Britain have struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen after a surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
It is the fourth joint action taken by the UK and the US in an attempt to deter attacks by the group on vessels, including a missile strike this week that set fire to a cargo ship.
According to US officials, American and British fighter jets hit about 18 sites across multiple locations, targeting missiles, launchers, rockets, drones and unmanned surface and underwater vehicles.
The US fighter jets launched from the USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier, which is in the Red Sea….
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said the UK strikes were carried out by four Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4s supported by two Voyager tankers.
The MoD saidt: "Intelligence analysis had successfully identified several very long-range drones, used by the Houthis for both reconnaissance and attack missions, at a former surface-to-air missile battery site several miles north-east of Sanaa.
"Our aircraft used Paveway IV precision guided bombs against the drones and their launchers."
The MoD said previous RAF strikes, on 11 January and 3 February, had destroyed a "number of buildings used to support" the Houthis' "done and cruise missile operations"….
US and Britain strike more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen
The US and Britain have struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen after a surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
It is the fourth joint action taken by the UK and the US in an attempt to deter attacks by the group on vessels, including a missile strike this week that set fire to a cargo ship.
According to US officials, American and British fighter jets hit about 18 sites across multiple locations, targeting missiles, launchers, rockets, drones and unmanned surface and underwater vehicles.
The US fighter jets launched from the USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier, which is in the Red Sea….
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said the UK strikes were carried out by four Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4s supported by two Voyager tankers.
The MoD saidt: "Intelligence analysis had successfully identified several very long-range drones, used by the Houthis for both reconnaissance and attack missions, at a former surface-to-air missile battery site several miles north-east of Sanaa.
"Our aircraft used Paveway IV precision guided bombs against the drones and their launchers."
The MoD said previous RAF strikes, on 11 January and 3 February, had destroyed a "number of buildings used to support" the Houthis' "done and cruise missile operations"….
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CENTCOM:
Feb. 24 Red Sea Update
On Feb. 24 at 5 p.m. (Sanaa time), USS Mason (DDG 87) shot down one Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) launched into the Gulf of Aden from Iranian-backed Houthi controlled areas of Yemen.
The missile was likely targeting MV Torm Thor, a U.S.-Flagged, owned, and operated chemical/oil tanker.
Neither USS Mason nor MV Torm Thor were damaged and there were no injuries.
Feb. 24 Red Sea Update
On Feb. 24 at 5 p.m. (Sanaa time), USS Mason (DDG 87) shot down one Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) launched into the Gulf of Aden from Iranian-backed Houthi controlled areas of Yemen.
The missile was likely targeting MV Torm Thor, a U.S.-Flagged, owned, and operated chemical/oil tanker.
Neither USS Mason nor MV Torm Thor were damaged and there were no injuries.
Saudi pounded them for years but then formed a truce with the Houthis getting them to agree not to send drones over their cities and oil installations any more.
What I would like to ask the Houthis is, “Do you really feel comfortable polluting your own seas with poisonous chemicals around Yemen, if it’s for Hamas (anti Israel)?”
What I would like to ask the Houthis is, “Do you really feel comfortable polluting your own seas with poisonous chemicals around Yemen, if it’s for Hamas (anti Israel)?”
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Speaking of pollution - Rubymar has an 18 mile oil slick and growing as it gradually sinks.
The main cargo is nitrogen fertiliser which disturb the balance of microorganism in the sea causing increased large algae bloom, in which fish suffocate, plus loss of their nutrient base and major damage to the fishing industry on which the local fishing industry relies.
The main cargo is nitrogen fertiliser which disturb the balance of microorganism in the sea causing increased large algae bloom, in which fish suffocate, plus loss of their nutrient base and major damage to the fishing industry on which the local fishing industry relies.
And where is Greanpeace, come to save the day with their rhetoric? 
I wonder if the ship has sufficient ability to pump water out of the engine room at some point.
Don't understand that class of vessel well enough to make an educated guess.
I wonder if the ship has sufficient ability to pump water out of the engine room at some point.
Don't understand that class of vessel well enough to make an educated guess.
I think they steer clear of naval zones after the made the mistake of boarding that Russian oil platform a few years back....................
I was surprised they let them go - a trial for Piracy and 10 years hard in the Kola would have sent a clearer message
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenp...se_ship_caseOn 19 September 2013, the day after the Prirazlomnaya protest, the Russian authorities forcibly took control of the Arctic Sunrise, which was boarded from a helicopter by fifteen Federal Security Service officers in balaclavas, armed with guns and knives.[13] At the time of the boarding, the Arctic Sunrise was in Russia's Exclusive Economic Zone but not within the safety zone around the oil rig, and permission was not sought to board it from the Arctic Sunrise's flag state, the Netherlands.[12] The captain was separated from the crew and brutally beaten, while other crew members and activists were held in the mess room.[14] It has been alleged that crew members and activists were brutally beaten, punched, and kicked during the forced boarding.[13]
The Arctic Sunrise was towed to the port of Murmansk. All of the 30 people on board were taken to a detention facility where they were brutally beaten and interrogated. In early October, the Leninsky District Court in Murmansk issued a warrant to arrest all 30 people.[15] 22 were put in custody for two months pending an investigation and the other eight were detained for three days pending a new hearing. They were under investigation for piracy, which in Russia carries a maximum jail sentence of 15 years.[6][16][17] On 23 October the charge of piracy was dropped and replaced by a charge for aggravated hooliganism with a maximum sentence of seven years.[18][19] After they were transferred to Saint Petersburg on 12 November,[15] the Kalininsky and Primorsky district courts released most of the people on bail,[[i]citation needed] and the Murmansk Regional Court rejected an appeal against the arrests on 21 November.[20]
"According to Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace in the United States at the time, the reaction of the Russian coast guard and courts had been the "stiffest response that Greenpeace has encountered from a government since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985.""
The Arctic Sunrise was towed to the port of Murmansk. All of the 30 people on board were taken to a detention facility where they were brutally beaten and interrogated. In early October, the Leninsky District Court in Murmansk issued a warrant to arrest all 30 people.[15] 22 were put in custody for two months pending an investigation and the other eight were detained for three days pending a new hearing. They were under investigation for piracy, which in Russia carries a maximum jail sentence of 15 years.[6][16][17] On 23 October the charge of piracy was dropped and replaced by a charge for aggravated hooliganism with a maximum sentence of seven years.[18][19] After they were transferred to Saint Petersburg on 12 November,[15] the Kalininsky and Primorsky district courts released most of the people on bail,[[i]citation needed] and the Murmansk Regional Court rejected an appeal against the arrests on 21 November.[20]
"According to Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace in the United States at the time, the reaction of the Russian coast guard and courts had been the "stiffest response that Greenpeace has encountered from a government since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985.""
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At least one subsea fiber cable damaged in the Red Sea, some reports blame Houthi rebels - DCD
Israeli press say AAE-1, Seacom/TGN, and Europe India Gateway (EIG) damaged by rebels; Seacom confirms issues but not cause
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/e...houthi-rebels/
Israeli press say AAE-1, Seacom/TGN, and Europe India Gateway (EIG) damaged by rebels; Seacom confirms issues but not cause
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/e...houthi-rebels/
ORAC, I posted an article by Tom Sharpe on that in the unpleasantries thread in JB...he suspects that Russia may have a hand in that.
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Quite a scoop here by Thomas Wiegold at @AugenGeradeaus:
German frigate Hessen intercepted Houthi drones with RAM & 76 mm main gun.
Before that incident however Hessen tried to intercept, by mistake, a US MQ-9 UAV using two SM-2, both of which failed for "technical reasons".
As per report the MQ-9 had its IFF turned off & operational command (presumably EUNAVFOR Aspides) was unaware of its presence. According to a spokesperson "the incident has been analysed and the deficit was corrected".
Unclear whether referring to IFF issue or SM-2 issue or both….
https://augengeradeaus.net/2024/02/r...huthi-drohnen/
Quite a scoop here by Thomas Wiegold at @AugenGeradeaus:
German frigate Hessen intercepted Houthi drones with RAM & 76 mm main gun.
Before that incident however Hessen tried to intercept, by mistake, a US MQ-9 UAV using two SM-2, both of which failed for "technical reasons".
As per report the MQ-9 had its IFF turned off & operational command (presumably EUNAVFOR Aspides) was unaware of its presence. According to a spokesperson "the incident has been analysed and the deficit was corrected".
Unclear whether referring to IFF issue or SM-2 issue or both….
https://augengeradeaus.net/2024/02/r...huthi-drohnen/
What we have here is failure to communicate. (As regards the MQ-9 engagement). C2 failure.
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Bulker #Rubymar is drifting northward in deep water and it is possible she is dragging her starboard anchor across the cables on the floor of the #RedSea.
If not enough chain is not paid out and with the additional weight from flooding, the ship is not holding.
If not enough chain is not paid out and with the additional weight from flooding, the ship is not holding.