Ship packed with explosive Russian fertiliser adrift off Kent coast
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- Опубликовано: 25 сен 2024
- “Under unfortunate circumstances, for example, if they had a fire on board, this ammonium nitrate could eventually blow up.”
A Russia-linked “phantom ship” floating off the British coast could create a “crack in the ocean” if it blows up, says Jens Wenzel, a defence analyst at Nordic Defence Analysis.
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Why show a picture of a ship with a fire on ,when it's not on fire?
click bait would be my guess. tut tut that Times Radio would do such
An example?
Sensationalism and fear.
Click Bait
The headline says it's adrift, the host says it is anchored. Huge difference.
Alarmism untethered to reality. Times Radio making the tabloids look sedate.
I agree, state the facts not alarmism as clickbait. The public expect better from the Free press.
Tell them to try some Houthi port, or China.
If they start soon they can tow it to St Petersburg before the winter ice blocks it's passage.
Problem placed back in Russia's hands, though I suspect Israel would rather see it routed to Beirut
LOL the Russians scuttled as loose salvage A NUCLEAR SUBMARINE. WITH the reactor onboard.
They don't care about this ship & they don't want it in their ports. She has a Lebanese owner & a Syrian management company. Both those Nations have zero pull in Moscow.
They can't scuttle her, either, though that's what is probably going to happen. Lebanese people know how disappear a problem. They'll sail her to open, international waters with a nice deep bottom, open her seacocks & watch the problem solve itself.
They don't care if anyone's watching, either. Try enforcing an international maritime Court decision in Lebanon. They'll laugh you right out of Beirut. That place has no laws.
That ship is more powerful than a russian nuke
That's a lunatic thing to say.
@@gandydancer9710, He's right though.
The minimum size of a Russian tactical nuclear warhead is 5 kt (kilotons). This tub of bolts is packing ~twice the potential explosive power.
Is not
No it's not. A 10 kilo-tone bomb in sea can not create a tidal wave or a tsunami.
@@grahamhireme9283 will be if it gets close to the wreck of the Richard Montgomery. Quite a coincidence that it turns up off the Thames estuary after parking near various sensitive areas.
Evil Russia at it again?🤣
You say "Evil Russia" as if there was ever a righteous Russia
True
@@davidjones-wt2qq yes , evil russia, it's always been
@@joecool9739 It’s a ship full of fertiliser lol 😂
@@joecool9739 outside of the UK they laugh at us and think this country is a joke. I'm not against their opinion.
Should it not go back to where it came from 🤷🏼♂️
We can stop him now Ukraine is literally begging to do it for us all! What the h… is the problem let them 🤷♂️🙏
Don't let them get it anywhere near the Richard Montgomery.
What about sanctions, non existent it seems.
russian maintenance is a joke. More likely though is it’s deliberate to cause “an accident”.
Send it back
Nuclear mushroom 🍄 🤯☠️🤦♂️
Scare tactics by Russia. Just ignore it.
Ffsake uk will take it in port we take in everything else these days
My question is… is it realy carrying 20000 tons of fertiliser or is this just a bit on top of sand bags, hoping to put the wind up NATO countries?
its a pretty normal load for ammonium nitrate,
If Putin wants ww3, he will attack the UK with fertilizer like that coward Timothy McVeigh who bombed a daycare at the Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
see " Texas City Explosion 1947 "
Can Russia do anything?
They can stop murdering civilians if they want to be treated like a normal country and be allowed to trade their fertilizer without causing a panic.
Not correctly
It can leave Ukraine.
How did it get to the UK?
Ocean
It floated there
It’s magic 😂
Worst case scenario this ship decides to float up the Thames to the Thames barrier , then somebody on-board ' accidentally ' discards a lit cigarette in the wrong place....bye bye barrier
Barrier that hasn’t done anything for about 25 years, who cares
I'm a londoner and always wondered if the barrier was a security device. The big floods..1928? Come from up river.
Maybe bye bye London!
In Moscow in 1992, some guy in the street tried to sell me a ship full of ammonium nitrate. Those were weird days.
thats not weird in a country that rides bears
Funny you mention that. My friend's dad used to work abroad, and was in Russia early 90's too. He was offered a steelworks 😂
Hey! Long time no see. It’s still available if you want it?
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"Ride bears"
Carefully curated internet trash pushed by Russian troll farms so that foreigners think Russia is macho
The Name of the ship???
The Billy O' Tea
The Lady Yeblyaterinburg
HMS Campbeltown
Boatski McBoatskiface.
Hot sausage
Yes send it to calais
U know what. Necular. Too what ports or bio
Why are Russian Creimere bridge buster's, floating around?
Uhh uhh uh uhh uhh uhh uhhhhh
Lord have mercy on me I am having difficulty understanding the specialist
Why would Malta, with no real agriculture, need that much fertilizer?
"Let's take it to the UK. They are dumb enough to look after us"
The ship MV Ruby is flying a Malta flag, and was on it's way to Norway. Norway refused to let it dock because it was damaged. In this instance it has nothing to do with Russia, except that they own/produced/sold the vessel.
Oh well who cares won’t affect west and East Midlands
What a wonderful attitude. So selfish.
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It's a DIVision bot, 44 subscribers with 0 content.
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@LadySophieofHougunManor7325 if it goes off near the wreck of the Richard Montgomery then it will have an indirect affect on the midlands.
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LORD Michael Edwards?
Does he know you have written this?
@@chrisallen7068
Another quick search also reveals!
The lord of the manors wife doesn't seem to know that the manor is also situated in Cumbria!
When did it move to the midlands from the North of the UK.
Please stop undermining your credibility by using a thumbnail showing a ship on fire. There is enough propaganda, misinformation and clickbait without the TImes Radio adding to the mix.
Please do not sink to the standards of others, raise it and be the gold standard.
20,000 tons of ammonium nitrate = 5 kilotons of TNT equivalent, not 10.
Any fule kno that.
Why are only danish authorities asked about this ship, an no Norwegians? Just wonder, the Norwegian coast is long,
What is your correspondent taking about? 60,000 orc troops have been diverted to the Kursk front from Kherson & Zaporizha.
Yeah, this is the test run for much worse. Imagine if a bunch of these came dashing towards multiple targets. Ports and nearby military bases go boom.
Here’s a different spin on the many possibilities. In the river Medway there is also a an American ww2 ship full to the brim with explosives, it may also have a few pagers on board. It would be catastrophic if it was to explode on or near this old warship via a remote detonator.
If you want to know what happens when a ship full of Ammonium Nitrate goes boom, look up the 1947 Texas City disaster. It can be absolutely horrendous.
It's a bit close to the SS Richard Montgomery. Now, if THAT goes up you can kiss goodbye to a good chunk of Sheerness. So the question has to be... is this Russian ship being used as a detonator to set off the SS Richard Montgomery?
Soooo. Norway, Lithuania, Denmark, Canairee Islds, now parked off le coast ov England. Now yaw saying Malta. So where le fk waz le shipp's cargo destination in le 1st place. Convinient S Connery dropped dead a week after Beruit Blast. Who's make a realistic wish is this shipload ov mushroom cloud potential waiting 4?
UNPROFESSIONAL CLICKBAIT for using a thumbnail showing flames ... the ship is NOT ablaze !
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Unsubbed, and channel permanently de-recommended, and referred to youtube for "fake engagement" violation of guidelines.
😂😂😂😂😂 more bull.
Absolutely disgraceful clickbait
This is the final straw
Slow news day? 😂🤦🏻♂️ dear oh dear
yes why show ship on fire when clearly it's not ?
Your daily fear mongering brought to you by the times
A floating 10 kiloton device is hardly scaremongering.....it is a perfect " false flag " scenario should " Stormshadow " be used on Russian territory
It's anchored 15 miles off the coast, outside of territorial waters. Just don't allow it inside.
Why are you playing into Putins' hand? This issue was reported several hours ago, and nothing has changed . Stop this hyperbole and find something important to talk about.
How does it play into Putin's hand to warn people that Putin isn't done murdering civilians yet?
It's pretty important when you look at the story it's highly suspicious and dangerous bubba
Original destination Palma de Mallorca ? This man should get his facts strait. that totally BS. It would never fit in the port and the island is far to small to use that amount. Who is this man ? He really doesn't know what he is talking about and then Malta.
Lets get facts strait before giving Disinformation !
Talk to the Warship Fertilizer about their stated destination, not the reporter who reported what this bomb ketch is up to.
Straight.
DECLARED destination.
An accident close to our shores could be disastrous. The wisest course of action would be to see that an "accident" occurred while this ship is well offshore. I'm sure we have a few Ukrainian refuges with advanced PADI qualifications, who would be delighted to help out.
Send it to Beirut, they have experience with abandoned russian fertilizers.
Hey, it's the UK, they accept any foreigner no matter how illegal or dangerous, Kier will more than embrace a dangerous boat, or at the very least not talk about it and ignore the issue.
Its fertilizer. Amonium nitrate is the. Most common fertilizer used . Russia is the main exporter of it
Yeah but that stuff goes kaboom bubba
How is fertiliser normally shipped and what’s wrong with this load?
It's not the load or anything wrong with it, it's more the rather bizarre course and actions of the ship and the ambiguity of its final destination. No one has agreed to allow it to dock anywhere to unload. It ran aground off Russia but didn't dock there for repairs but kept going and now it appears unable to find a destination and receiving port for its cargo.