In Anapa, the cargo ship "Blue Shark" with 2.8 thousand tons of barley washed ashore (4 photos + 3 videos)
A powerful hurricane swept along the entire Black Sea coast. On the night of November 27, the cargo ship Blue Shark ran aground 400 meters from the shore.
The 1997 vessel was flying the flag of Belize. Since November 23, the ship was in Taman, loading barley for Egypt. When the port reported an assault warning, the Blue Shark vessel moved to anchorage.
On November 26, at about 23:00, a hurricane wind tore the cargo ship from its anchors. It drifted off the coast of Anapa for several hours until it ran aground in Vityazevo. According to Rosmorrechflot, there are 21 crew members on board: residents of Syria, Egypt and India. Their lives are not in danger.
The press service of Rosmorrechflot reported that the dry cargo ship will be refloated when the weather permits.
Now sea rescuers, together with the Ministry of Emergency Situations, are preparing a plan for a rescue operation. Meanwhile, local residents come ashore to take pictures with the huge ship.
Not far from Cape Zhelezny Rog several years ago, a cargo ship called Surov ran aground during a strong storm. It still stands on the shores of the Taman Peninsula. They couldn’t refloat Surov because he got stuck in the sand. We hope that Blue Shark will be saved.
A hurricane is raging in the Krasnodar region. In Sochi, a tourist almost carried soap into the sea, who decided to watch the hurricane with his family. A man came to the embankment and was washed away by water. The man's family was able to escape before the wave hit them. When the water receded, he was able to get out.
On the shore of the Sirius federal territory, waves flooded the shore and a residential complex. A powerful wave broke fences and infrastructure in a coastal park, reached the apartments and flooded the first floors.
Forecasters called the storm of the century “the storm of the century.”