Why would they go the long way round?
Does not make sense for alleged cargo. Just wait till summer and use arctic route, or use a train.
Pretty much, I mean North Korean troops were going by ship to Vladivostok, so why not just overland rail to Vladivostok then ship to NK?
Seems much easier than sending it around the world through potentially hostile waters
Those ship attacking killer whales are now a nuclear super power.
The going to add lasers
killer whales with nuclear powered lasers.
Whatever the cause of the initial blast was, Russia definitely scuttled the ship rather than have anyone else know what it was carrying.
What an unfortunate thing to happen on free eggs night.
I hope it was Orcas.
they have war bears, giant squids, dolphins, and now orcas.
The orcas have only been going after small sailboats (the kind small enough for a middle-class family to afford, if they own it instead of a house and live aboard full-time). They aren’t the class conscious anti-oligarch crusaders everybody wants them to be.
imagine how impressive the orcas that did this are.
we should give the orcas torpedoes… and a list of targets lol
The phrases “middle class family” and “live aboard full-time” do not sit well with me.
A small boat is (well, was, these are probably ~2008 prices I’m remembering) cheap. It’s probably been ‘patched’ by marinas and such, but at one time you could get a small sailboat for 10-20k, and get electricity+dock space for a tenth of the price of an apartment’s rent. You would be living in ~200 square feet at best (and probably less than that) but it was doable. For a family of three, you could probably swing that lifestyle with a 40k boat, which is still well under a typical house. Again, it would be ridiculously small, but it’s possible. A friend of mine grew up on a sailboat like that.
I know a couple who both cashed in all their retirement to buy a boat and sail from place to place; their kids are ‘home schooled’ on the boat. they are not rich by any stretch, but they’re living their dream. not my idea of fun but, eh? the husband now just does odd marine jobs to keep their house floating. I respect their desire to live their way.
Well gee golly.
A Russian cargo ship carrying nuclear components for North Korea has a ‘surprise accident’.
I can’t think of anyone who might have wanted to arrange that accident, can you? I mean surely everyone wants North Korea to have nuclear stuff… Oh wait…
Unfortunately paywalled. Is this a delayed report on the one which was hit by a supercavating torpedo off the coast of Spain a few months ago or is this another sunk russian ship with reactors bound for North Korea’s submarine program?
CNN did a video recently about the one off Spain in the last couple of days. This is probably that one.
It is about the ship, which was sunk off the coast of Spain. However the supercavating torpedo thing is not really proven to my knowledge. It would be very interesting, as Ukraine does not have that technology.
South k does, they 100% intercepted that. To cock block NK from geting those reactors.
Depends on whether you consider December 23, 2024 “a few months ago”.
That poor ship fell out a window
Very sad, always from same suite too.
Is that old news or did it happen again?
“You are experiencing a car accident”
Likely, possibly, unexplained. Yet CNN somehow knows about it lmao.
Old news
Yeah, isn’t this from last year? Or did it happen again? That photo looks familiar.
Root cause analysis determined that the reason for the incident was that it was a ship built in Russia.
The front fell off!
Since it’s a Russian ship, I’d like to point out that that is very typical.
Is something like that very typical?
Idk for other ships but their aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov became a meme for always being down for maintenance and/or on fire
Oh no - not typical at all.
Oddly, the bottom of the ocean is a pretty good place to store a nuclear reactor. Which is lucky because Russia already had several of them down there and there are two American nuke subs on permanent patrol.
It’s hardly going to be fuelled
Actually the ocean contains billions of tons of uranium
This is Ursa Major. It sank in 2024.
