MV Arvin breaks in two while at anchor.

[ShaneAtSea]

Wow ?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1350846629453115392

 

[oldgit]

JFC.

 

[PalmaTarga]

a couple of interesting comments regarding an insurance scam at the bottom of that page also.

 

[ShaneAtSea]

a couple of interesting comments regarding an insurance scam at the bottom of that page also.

Insurance scam by who?

Four crew members are dead and two are missing

 

[Deleted member 478]

Pretty horrifying

 

[Biggles Wader]

This didnt have a good outcome. Several crew died.

 

[William_H]

It is ironic that the bigger the ship the more fragile they become in big seas compared to the tiny GRP boat that is almost indestructible. (not so the crew on the tiny boat of course. ol'will

 

[Lee Shaw]

Sad too that it could have probably been prevented. It is likely that the hull, deck and bulkheads had large cracks that could have been found and repaired before the final fatal voyage.

 

[Tomahawk]

Looks like I was beaten to the draw..
But why the bit about no cardboard?

 

[pyrojames]

45 year old ship. Well past it's life expectancy unless very well maintained.

 

[cpedw]

Never in the history of nautical forums did a video spawn so many threads ,,,

 

[vas]

and apparently designed for river, protected waters only. also if you check where it anchored wasn't protected at all...
wonder what/where such a large ship would move about in the Black Sea tbh

 

[davidej]

We now have three threads about this on three different forums ( or fora for those who speak Latin)

 

[PalmaTarga]

indeed.. RIP, I certainly hope it wasn't the case and those comments were just trolling gossip.