The incident took place on October 5 in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania. The ship remained almost undamaged.
A Turkish cargo ship hit a mine in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania on Thursday, October 5, but remained largely unscathed. This was reported by Reuters citing sources.
The incident occurred during the day at the mouth of the Danube – 11 nautical miles north of the city of Sulina, at the entrance to the Sulina estuary. The information was provided by the British maritime safety company Ambrey.
After the explosion, the ship anchored to investigate the consequences of the damage, and resumed movement three hours later. None of the team members were injured.
It was noted that another source from the Ukrainian government confirmed to the agency that such an incident had occurred, and it could be either an old mine from the Second World War, or one of the new ones from the time of the full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
The head of the Turkish consulting company Bosphorus Observer, citing his data, said that the incident occurred on the Kafkametler vessel, it received minor damage.
MarineTraffic ship tracking data shows that the Kafkametler is anchored in the Danube near the Ukrainian terminal at Vilkovo.
We remind you that in August in Romania, near the resort village of Costinesti, an explosion occurred at sea. A sea mine appears to have hit the pier and exploded, causing some damage but no casualties.
Following Russia’s massive invasion of Ukraine, Romanian, Bulgarian and Turkish military diving teams are clearing drifting mines in their waters.
A mine exploded in the sea in the Odessa region
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