Thank you! Not a hard one to crack. However, we have to renegotiate the treaty regarding Åland. It cannot remain demilitarized anymore. The Ruzzian suckers are buying land in the archipelago... They'll send a tanker filled with little green men to Åland and they will have changed the game. Can't let it happen.
@@natrautio you probably don't realize this since you're suckling at putins tit but neither sweden nor finland have any issues about åland if anything it's a knot that ties us together stronger.
Oh you mean fake cable damage reported to take control of ship in international free waters? Mising anker on a photo is evidence of what? Mising anker, nothing more
I actually did that once with a 9 m sailing boat but obviously the anchor didn't grab anything, probably it was "flying" in the water without touching the bottom.
The Baltic Sea is the most polluted sea on the planet. It's bottom is littered with ship wrecks from many many wars, accidents and sabotage. However, regrettably nothing about it is a mystery.
The Black Sea Triangle in which the russian fronts fall off. The Baltic Sea Triangle in which the russian anchors fall off. Can we square that circle? Erh, triangle? 🤔
I never imaged that I would spend half an hour watching a video about a ship's anchor and find it so interesting! This channel just keeps getting better and better.
According to the statements given to the press in Finnish, the sequence of events was so that the vessel was contacted via radio and apparently asked to stop, which it complied with. When Eagle S was accompanied by authorities, it was still dragging its anchor. When it was ordered to rise the anchor, only the chain came up, the anchor having been severed at some point. Vessel Turva then escorted the vessel to the position where it was anchored and remains as of now, and where it was eventually boarded by the police and border guard. Reportedly, the crew complied with the authorities all the time when told to move the vessel to where it ended up anchored. The boarding by two helicopters (one from the military and one from the border guard) occurred only about 12 hours after the Estlink 2 cable was severed, apparently when the ship was already at anchor, accompanied by Turva all the time. Crew are reported to be Indians and Georgians by nationalities.
Hopefully the master rolls over quickly about being paid to do this. I imagine he doesn't want to spend any more time in a Finish prison than he has to, and will be motivated to make a deal.
Greetings from Finland. All these 3 instances being coincidences is so unlikely that I'd prefer if Sweden and Denmark banned all ships from crossing through their waters that are coming or going to Russia.
Don't forget to include Germany. Some of these ships could also go through the Kiel Canal.
Місяць тому
I agree and I ashamed we have not closed the straits for them, Chineese and Russian boats. This is acts of war and well within what we can do then. And even if not, we need to act and stop being pussies.
Only block access to "dark fleet" vessels. There's nothing wrong with demanding ships to be insured, final beneficial owner being known and crew to have proper training. Especially in light of the "mistakes" and "accidents" that happened recently.
It doesn’t matter if it was the soviet style maintenance or an intelligence operation. Underwater cable repairs can be funded by the auction of the ship, or the proceeds derived from scrapping it. The message has to be sent and received.
In that case America must be held accountable for what was done to Nordstream. It seems to me that NS was ultimately what started all these sabotage missions.
Ian Fleming wrote some lines in Goldfinger: The first time is happenstance. The seond time may be co-incidence. But the third time, my dear Mister Bond, is very definitely enemy action."
@@alexandermonro6768 the quote is actually - “Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.”
Let's not be naive. This is typical of the hybrid warfare operations conducted by China and Russia. The location of these recent incidents and the countries targeted are also indicative.
I'm calling Bullshit on that statement. It's more like American Tactics. Don't forget the Nord stream pipeline destroyed by the U.S. after blaming Russia. I would stick to it being an accident as were the last two. Come on Sal stop speculating, you can do better.
Like blowing up Nord Str... .oh that was the UK and USA who blamed it on Russia, even after they sent text messages to each other stating "it's done". How about blaming every electrion every US and EU country loses to patriots as Russian and Chinese interference. Trump won because of China, right? Romania elected a nationalist because of Russia interference, despite payment records showing the party in power paid for Twitter campaigns to keep them out of power... right? Or how ukraine are adament there are North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia despite have zero evidence, no prisoners, no videos, no pictures, months after the claim. You hate Russia and China. You are racist.
We were agents of a vessel who lost an anchor in our anchorage. Never found it. Three weeks later she was there again (she did kind-of regular trade), we had everything prepared to bring a new anchor by barge...and she lost her second anchor. I will never forget it as I was on duty ashore and received Master's call in the early morning hours: "you are not going to believe this...".
Just to point out that there is a "right of hot pursuit" that if a vessel comits a crime in territorial waters you can persue the vessel and arrest it in international waters. Entirely legitimate to board a vessel that has commited criminal damage within territorial waters, UNCLOS and the Paris convention do not apply to vessels within territorial waters. If a vessel does not make "continuous and expeditious passage" to qualify for innocent passage, which includes dropping your anchor then you can be boarded.
Even if the breakage of cables was accidental, Finland is well within its rights to impound the vessel for a full investigation for however long they think is necessary to complete the investigation. At this point, talk of confiscating it is premature (although I think that will be likely eventually). The presence of spy equipment is wild. I’m not going to assume that report is true. But I’m not going to dismiss it, either. I’ll just wait until more is revealed. Don’t get me wrong. I feel confident that the cable breakage was intentional on the part of Russia. I suspect that the Finns can prove it. They might well have these Russian ships under surveillance at this point. They might even have visual proof of when the ship dropped anchor as it traversed the cable crossings.
@@MarcosElMalo2taking out the Estlink2 forces Estonia to buy electricity from Russia. Estonia does not have enough power generation on its own. This is about as clear of a thing as you can have.
@@tapio_m6861 Are you claiming that Estonia can, politically, legally (sanctions), or even physically (disconnected from Russian network) buy electricity from Russia? Less hyperbole and more facts please.
Congratulations on this vlog, it's obvious being done by someone who has a deep understanding of marine laws and has the expert knowledge to be able to translate these laws so we the viewers understand the complexities of the marine environment. So thanks for this very interesting vlog.
By this point, we have to assume the anchor systems on these ships are about as reliable as some of the window locks fitted to some of those tall buildings in Russia.
My father would really have enjoyed your channel. He served in the Royal Australian Navy as a signalman from 1937 and during WW2. After he was medically retired from the Navy in 1947, he retained his interest in shipping of all types. I remember when we were small he would take us out to Point Cartwright Qld so we could watch all the large ships coming in to start their passage into Morton Bay to berth in Brisbane. There was a Pilot's station at Mooloolaba and you could sea the pilots going out from Point Cartwright to join the ships. Dad died shortly before his 90th birthday in 2010, but he passed his fascination in ships and shipping along to me.
I believe there was an interview with a Finnish police chief regarding this incident and he was asked if they had been in contact with the Russian authorities regarding the matter. "No, we haven't." Will you be in contact with them? "No, we won't."
Exactly and that’s part of the problem , the west is as guilty as hell over many crimes and now cry when some of their sh1t fly’s back at them , no sympathy for anything that happens in the West anymore
Annoyingly difficult to translate the exchange. The gist is: Q: "Have you been in contact with the Russian authorities?" A: "No." Q: "When will you be?" A: "We won't." Q: "Why not?" A: "I will not further this discussion."
I'm sure it is just coincidence that at least three cargo ships sailing out of St. Petersburg have dragged anchors and damaged undersea cables. It seems fair to me that either the insurance company pays for the repairs or the ship is confiscated, the crew interred (until the repairs are paid for), the cargo sold, and the ship sold to a friendly country or sold for scrap.
I have adopted you as my news anchor. I get more factual information and level headed insight from this channel then the major news outlets. Thank you for your podcast! It’s very much appreciated and respected.
I live in Finland near one of the Baltic cables and the moored LNG tanker. I am a little intimidated by the fact that my husband's one man company was subjected to a cyber attack. The GPS interference is also starting to annoy me. This summer Finnair had to put the flights to Tarto, Estonia on hold due to GPS disturbance. When I go hunting the tracker shows where my dog is runnig, but it also shows me constantly moving around when I am not.
@@creativian68, however, something good also in GPS jamming happening. Now, before all old navigation equipment (ground stations) were decommissioned, the idiots got a reminder that GNSS (including GPS) is not something that could replace those systems, even it’s cheaper than having some ground-based navigation aids.
Seems like it could be potentially dangerous for shipping with all the jamming. The Baltic may not be very wide but I'm sure it could get pretty backed up with lots of maritime traffic.
I was driving around in South Eastern Estonia, not too far from the border and my GPS started acting wonky. Instead of showing me the direct route to Tartu, it showed me a route to Tartu.... through Russia with a massive detour.
Best and most comprehensive video blog about international issues with shipping. I always walk away from your videos knowing so much more. Great perspective and insight, and as you said, with the receipts to back it up. Yeah, there's a lotta ship going on in the world! Thanks Sal!
Finally learned to watch the entire video before asking questions....as usual Sal addressed every question I had and then some. Healthy and prosperous New Year's wishes.
thats because ghana is part of brics now and us just sank a couple of brics tankers so this is obvious retaliation but the thing is they have a lot more tankers than we have cables they can afford to play this game a lot longer than we can
@@violetquinnlawI don't know for certain, but I bet a tanker & its cargo costs more than repairing an underwater cable. And if a whole bunch of loaded tankers begin failing safety inspections, with no real discernible ownership of the vessel (since ownership is deliberately hidden), I bet it becomes a lot harder to find patsies to bribe.
When authorities stopped the ship, it was still dragging the left anchor (or possibly both anchors). The ship was ordered to raise the anchors and when they raised the left anchor chain, there was no longer anchor at the end of the chain.
@@iam5085, it wasn't long time ago when the ship was photographed with both anchors. Anyway, the authorities will find the missing anchor from sea floor, the search is already in progress and it might be that they have already found it but haven't published information yet. It is relatively easy to follow the track of anchor from the damaged cables.
Found this channel 3 years ago; had no idea it was going to be an authoritative source for info on a couple of wars, the Jones Act and American infrastructure, and the global realignment👍
@@brettany_renee_blatchleythe Russian vessel that was anchored of the Thames Estuary for a while a couple of months ago (it was mainstream news for a week) was required to be escorted by a tug when entering the Baltic so this sort of thing must be possible.
@@brettany_renee_blatchley There is a constant traffic of tankers going to or coming from Primorsk or Ust-Luga (both are near St. Petersburg). There are at least 50 of them in the Gulf of Finland right now, and probably at all times. We simply don't have enough military/border control vessels to keep an eye on all of them.
It is a weird world out there; it seems it was much better when I was part of it! Very retired, no more boats or ships, for me! Been a heliguard on semisubmersible oil platforms and worked as a firefighter on ferries (been a passenger on Tor Scandinavia when a Norwegian arsonist set it on fire and killed a pair celebrating their silver anniversary)! The first ship that came to our assistance was a Soviet tanker, and then came the West German Navy, in the form of a destroyer, that sent a firefighting unit onboard to help the crew, which had fought the fire for 12 hours by then. Within an hour the fire was quenched!
They're pushing particular narratives, generally to low attention span and IQ individuals. Operation Mockingbird and all that. I know how it sounds, but grab a tinfoil hat and look into it!
Estonian TV told, that electricity cabel is broken again, that means prise is going up or there will be no enough power available, but they avoid detiled information about where cabel broke. Finland doesent care much about what happens in Estonia or other Baltic countries, they try to avoid any conflicts with Russia. Must be naive to think that they will close their waters to Russian ships destroying cabels.
Not sure what your primary language is, but that might be an issue. I know here in the US, we are awful about reporting what happens overseas. If it isn't already put into English, we dont bother with it usually (sadly). I don't know if the Finns spend much time putting news out in English, but the French rarely do
One correction: the ship was in international waters during the incident. It only entered Finnish territorial waters after having been instructed to do so by the Finnish authorities. The main shipping channel in the Gulf of Finland is outside the territorial waters of both Finland and Estonia, which greatly complicates controlling incidents such as this. It's not known whether the Finns would have boarded the ship if this haud refused to turn to Finnish waters. I presume they would have done so, because the danger to other cables and the gas pipeline was imminent and obvious.
The number one anchor securing for vessels on passage out at sea is the ‘anchor lashing’ which is a heavy wire through a link shackled into the windlass forward of the anchor stopper. The ‘Anchor Lashing’ is taken off when in sheltered waters to be ready for emergency anchoring but the stopper still stays down. Also there would be a minimum of 11 but likely 12 shackles of chain on this vessel. Great work thank you!
I can't add any useful conjecture or science to this report. I am but your humbled student. I'm not worthy! Thanks for your patient mentoring professor. I owe you so much for the knowledge you've given me. I am hooked on learning, from you, about shipping. So much more than I ever thought I even wanted to know. Who'd have thought that I even wanted to learn about shipping before you started educating us. Thanks for everything Professor Sal! Happy New Year. 🖖🙏
Thanks to you and for your channel! I wouldn't know any of this if you (and Chief MAKOi) didn't have your channels available. In the time it took me to type this the views went from 103k to 104k; awesome viewership!
Well if the anchors wont stay up, nato has to figure out something else. This is not the only trick uve been doing to these countries lately, for example gps harrashing is constant. @@ljubomirculibrk4097
That would make Sweden and Denmark participants in the Ukraine war. And would probably have NATO to start the third World War. The Ukrainian war will probably end in march/april next year. Crimea will belong to Russia and maybe some parts of eastern Ukraine. Diplomacy will end this war. USA are more beneficient to have great connections with Russia as China is USAs no 1 enemy. This is just down to economics.
This Channel as of late appears to be "What's Going on with Russian ships" Thank you for Keeping us informed of what going on in the world! Love your Content!
@PlayChaosVoices Taking responsibility? Who blew up the Nordstream pipeline? Who is blowing up Russias civilian ships? As an American citizen I have seen almost continous wars around the globe started by our deepstate and military industrial complex. I'm TIRED of seeing our youth squandered on wars that make bankers rich
In addition of missing anchor, the ship was above the electric cable when the blackout transpired. Uisko is a military ship, with 50-cal and 40mm grenade launcher and it’s fast. Turva is heavy ship that could tow an ocean liner on ice, and it had the military helicopter, that police swat-team used to mount the ship, and were tasked to storm the bridge. They were heavily armed and prepared to face enemy commandos. There were none, but there was no way that this ship is going anywhere after this borderline *act of war*. They were going to be seized, either with these two patrol vessels, or with real warships if need be. We’ve been exemplary in our patience, now was time to act.
Whoah, that got serious in a good way! I like it. :) "We're done putting up with this!" I mean, if nothing else, messing up those cables even by lazy-accident is STILL a ton of money being needed to fix it. Even if it's pure accident (which I doubt even now) then the lazy crews need 'The Fear Of God' put into them so they stop being so lazy. Those stories get around in the shipping world...and apparently in our UA-cam-Shipping World! :)
Nah, Uisko is a coast guard ship, not a military ship. Still armed though. Though, she's definitely not fast, Wikipedia lists her at 12-14 knots. Turva is the faster ship at 18.
@@chryssalidbait8765 I thought that what you are talking about, I was in Uisko in the army in early 2000’s, I know it’s fast, but seems my information was obsolete, the fairly new ship of the coast guard goes with the same name and she’s a modern beauty compared to much smaller vessel that I used to ride. And it’s huge in comparison. Funny because Finnish word ”Uisko” means a small row boat with a sail. And is also a question meaning ”could it swim?” 😄
Just found your site with the two river tankers sinking in the Kerch Strait. Absolutely fascinating!! I spent 20 years in the merchant marine (deck and engine) in Alaska, and I am glued to every one of your videos now. Thanks!
Sal, you inspire confidence. Your rational/logic/technical explanations of these marine events are so thorough that it is difficult to identify "partisan" elements in the data you share with us. You make an excellent analyst and certainly a great "anchor" to deliver the news in a way that are easily understood by people, even educated ones like myself who are ignorant of (merchant) marine intricacies and other normal procedures. Your analysis help us understand in more detail the actual long shots, short shots and CHEAP shots of international politics and "diplomacy." Thank you so very much for your labor.
Yes, exactly! This is an easy life hack to guess whether someone is probably actually a good researcher and teacher. Always good to double-check to make sure, but this rule is pretty reliable.
Thanks for the great, detailed video! According to the latest information, the EAGLE S was full of spy equipment and the crew was scared half to death.
Outstanding work, Shipmaster. You are the best of the rest in my book. I learn so much in a short time from you. God Bless you, Shipmaster Sal. Love, michael.
Sal, your channel is a gem. I'm not all that interested in shipping but you are so good at what you do that I'd listen to you talk about just about anything. Keep up the good work, sir! (When people talked about the promise of the internet when it first came out, I would think that channels like this are exactly what people had in mind.)
Well if you start doing this. How many "Ally's" ships are even worth using for trade. They would not make it to port outside of their EEZ's. Even American ships might run into "Problems" going across the Pacific.
@@nbell5050 How's that related to the sea traffic in the Baltic? Clearly, the ships going in the Baltic need to be properly insured, their final beneficial owner needs to be known and its crew needs to be fully certified. No one is going to see that as excessive after what happened. If that stops the entire black fleet from entering the Baltic sea, then that's an issue for the criminal syndicates operating the black fleet. Now try to make that argument about the Pacific ...
@@lacdirk The OP clearly stated "Axis Powers". They are talking about attempting similar actions against multiple countries. The world is more that the 15 percent that is the west dude.
Do you even realise what doing away with open international waters means to China? They can't wait to get rid of Americans constantly camping right off their shores
@@nbell5050 Only the US has real naval power projection "across the Pacific". China has hordes of coastal vessels, but is much more limited in true blue water capacity.
I am Swedish and I must say that I do like the Finnish approach! Wish you all possible success with this investigation! Hyvä Suomi!
Tack så mycket!
Финны молодцы, очень молодцы!
@@arvo3534 🤣
Thank you! Not a hard one to crack.
However, we have to renegotiate the treaty regarding Åland. It cannot remain demilitarized anymore. The Ruzzian suckers are buying land in the archipelago... They'll send a tanker filled with little green men to Åland and they will have changed the game. Can't let it happen.
@@natrautio you probably don't realize this since you're suckling at putins tit but neither sweden nor finland have any issues about åland if anything it's a knot that ties us together stronger.
'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.'
Oh you mean fake cable damage reported to take control of ship in international free waters?
Mising anker on a photo is evidence of what?
Mising anker, nothing more
@@rauldelvillar374 their ships were held together by knock off chinese bondo and duct tape
@@rauldelvillar374 No, that's age and pathetic maintenance. Plus using unsuitable equipment because everything else wore out or got blown up.
@@rauldelvillar374… no, that is pure incompetence on behalf of Russian maritime operations officials for using a river-vessel in open water.
@@rauldelvillar374 losing an entire fleet before you meet the enemy is a Russian thing
Stay strong Finland! Greetings from Poland!
Strong together Brother!
Sailing not realizing you're dragging an anchor is like driving not realizing you're towing a trailer.
more like driving with the handbrake on, I think.
No.
It's like driving a trailer and forgetting I've left the trailer brake on.... Sigh...
I actually did that once with a 9 m sailing boat but obviously the anchor didn't grab anything, probably it was "flying" in the water without touching the bottom.
But you noticed it in rhe boats behaviour right ?@@skunkjobb
Has happened many times. I once came across a trailer someone had just lost on the highway.
Sounds like we have a new phenomenon on our hands, Sal! The Baltic Triangle! Where anchors go to disappear!
More like the masonic triangle.
The Baltic Sea is the most polluted sea on the planet. It's bottom is littered with ship wrecks from many many wars, accidents and sabotage. However, regrettably nothing about it is a mystery.
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The Black Sea Triangle in which the russian fronts fall off. The Baltic Sea Triangle in which the russian anchors fall off. Can we square that circle? Erh, triangle? 🤔
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I never imaged that I would spend half an hour watching a video about a ship's anchor and find it so interesting! This channel just keeps getting better and better.
I'd like to se a video on nord stream damage.
Russia is not our enemy.
@@MaximumEfficiencySure, Vlad
@@mixlllllll sure Yankee
@@MaximumEfficiency I'm not American lol
@@mixlllllll same shit
According to the statements given to the press in Finnish, the sequence of events was so that the vessel was contacted via radio and apparently asked to stop, which it complied with. When Eagle S was accompanied by authorities, it was still dragging its anchor. When it was ordered to rise the anchor, only the chain came up, the anchor having been severed at some point. Vessel Turva then escorted the vessel to the position where it was anchored and remains as of now, and where it was eventually boarded by the police and border guard. Reportedly, the crew complied with the authorities all the time when told to move the vessel to where it ended up anchored. The boarding by two helicopters (one from the military and one from the border guard) occurred only about 12 hours after the Estlink 2 cable was severed, apparently when the ship was already at anchor, accompanied by Turva all the time.
Crew are reported to be Indians and Georgians by nationalities.
Thank you
@@wgowshipping Thank you for great reporting and analysis - top content, as always! Cheers!
Did you even watch the video?
There is no boat from the Finnish authority along the Eagle S, it stops and goes north to anchor alone.
Hopefully the master rolls over quickly about being paid to do this. I imagine he doesn't want to spend any more time in a Finish prison than he has to, and will be motivated to make a deal.
@@DR_1_1 If you follow the video Turva does not turn on its AIS until Eagle S anchors. Government ships don't have to run AIS.
Greetings from Finland. All these 3 instances being coincidences is so unlikely that I'd prefer if Sweden and Denmark banned all ships from crossing through their waters that are coming or going to Russia.
Don't forget to include Germany. Some of these ships could also go through the Kiel Canal.
I agree and I ashamed we have not closed the straits for them, Chineese and Russian boats. This is acts of war and well within what we can do then. And even if not, we need to act and stop being pussies.
As a Swede I agree, but this has to be an EU and NATO effort. We need to provide a unified front, as a blockade could be seen as an act of war.
A blocade is an act of war. @notaseriousbeaver
Only block access to "dark fleet" vessels. There's nothing wrong with demanding ships to be insured, final beneficial owner being known and crew to have proper training. Especially in light of the "mistakes" and "accidents" that happened recently.
Just gotta respect Finland!!!
It doesn’t matter if it was the soviet style maintenance or an intelligence operation. Underwater cable repairs can be funded by the auction of the ship, or the proceeds derived from scrapping it. The message has to be sent and received.
so naive. you will be colonized. scandinavian are the worsts
In that case America must be held accountable for what was done to Nordstream. It seems to me that NS was ultimately what started all these sabotage missions.
Sure let us see what do we auction off from the U.S. for destroying the Nordstream pipeline. Oh this channel does not talk about that. F ing clowns
who blew up NordStream pipelines??
Scrappage restrictions (environmental regulations etc.) may mean they have to pay to have a worthless ship taken away.
Ian Fleming wrote some lines in Goldfinger:
The first time is happenstance. The seond time may be co-incidence. But the third time, my dear Mister Bond, is very definitely enemy action."
I heard that the original quote is attributed to Al Capone, 1920s Chicago gangster.
Nice thanks for sharing
If it's happened twice by chance, it'll happen thrice by chance.
@@alexandermonro6768 the quote is actually - “Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.”
Yeah, but he also wrote Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. That isn't relevant. It is just a fun fact.
While my country, Finland, may be the happiest country, the tradeoff was that we got the shittiest neighbour.
Heh - very astute comment!
@@Rgyth Sorry I think Israel or India wins that.
Thats why we are so happy, dont live in russia😂
@@sinocam they are far a way from that title
Like the Finns say: Everything in russia is shit except piss.
Let's not be naive. This is typical of the hybrid warfare operations conducted by China and Russia. The location of these recent incidents and the countries targeted are also indicative.
I'm calling Bullshit on that statement. It's more like American Tactics. Don't forget the Nord stream pipeline destroyed by the U.S. after blaming Russia. I would stick to it being an accident as were the last two. Come on Sal stop speculating, you can do better.
Like blowing up Nord Str... .oh that was the UK and USA who blamed it on Russia, even after they sent text messages to each other stating "it's done".
How about blaming every electrion every US and EU country loses to patriots as Russian and Chinese interference. Trump won because of China, right? Romania elected a nationalist because of Russia interference, despite payment records showing the party in power paid for Twitter campaigns to keep them out of power... right?
Or how ukraine are adament there are North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia despite have zero evidence, no prisoners, no videos, no pictures, months after the claim.
You hate Russia and China. You are racist.
That being said, I still enjoy your Channel Sal
Or, see my top post.
Hybrid warware is a weird way to spell "war crime".
Never lost an anchor having served over forty years in the Merchant Navy.
I too have never lost an anchor. I've only been on a boat like 4 times, but still that's 100% success rate. 😂
I lost an anchor off a 12ft inflatable kayak on some rocks in 6 feet of water. I was too damn old to bother to retrieve it.
We were agents of a vessel who lost an anchor in our anchorage. Never found it.
Three weeks later she was there again (she did kind-of regular trade), we had everything prepared to bring a new anchor by barge...and she lost her second anchor. I will never forget it as I was on duty ashore and received Master's call in the early morning hours: "you are not going to believe this...".
@@marychrishannon7048 - I grew up on a rocky river. We used a coffee can full of concrete for an anchor.
i know i was merchant navy as well ..its probably wrapped round a cable so easy to find
Thanks for such a great explanation of what happened in the Finnish waters. Greetings from Finland, where I live.
Just to point out that there is a "right of hot pursuit" that if a vessel comits a crime in territorial waters you can persue the vessel and arrest it in international waters. Entirely legitimate to board a vessel that has commited criminal damage within territorial waters, UNCLOS and the Paris convention do not apply to vessels within territorial waters. If a vessel does not make "continuous and expeditious passage" to qualify for innocent passage, which includes dropping your anchor then you can be boarded.
Even if the breakage of cables was accidental, Finland is well within its rights to impound the vessel for a full investigation for however long they think is necessary to complete the investigation. At this point, talk of confiscating it is premature (although I think that will be likely eventually).
The presence of spy equipment is wild. I’m not going to assume that report is true. But I’m not going to dismiss it, either. I’ll just wait until more is revealed.
Don’t get me wrong. I feel confident that the cable breakage was intentional on the part of Russia. I suspect that the Finns can prove it. They might well have these Russian ships under surveillance at this point. They might even have visual proof of when the ship dropped anchor as it traversed the cable crossings.
Grotius would be proud.
@@MarcosElMalo2theres no proof, making up scenarios and arresting ships for no reason is terrorizing tactics
@@MarcosElMalo2taking out the Estlink2 forces Estonia to buy electricity from Russia. Estonia does not have enough power generation on its own. This is about as clear of a thing as you can have.
@@tapio_m6861 Are you claiming that Estonia can, politically, legally (sanctions), or even physically (disconnected from Russian network) buy electricity from Russia? Less hyperbole and more facts please.
Here we go! I've been waiting 24 hours for this update, thank you Sal!
Congratulations on this vlog, it's obvious being done by someone who has a deep understanding of marine laws and has the expert knowledge to be able to translate these laws so we the viewers understand the complexities of the marine environment. So thanks for this very interesting vlog.
As usual you are one of the first and most accurate sources of news. Thank you.
I appreciate that
Special Anchor Defenestration Operation.
Accurate? He made assumptions not accurate statements
@@stringlarson1247 The anchors of Donbas want freedom!
@@olliefoxx7165...and stated clearly what assumptions he was using
Sal is a riot. He's knowledgeable, current, articulate and is a professor at "my" university 🙂
Browny points? :)
@@stringlarson1247 Maybe, maybe not. I would be damned please to have a lecturer of such a caliber of this guy at mine.
It's pronounced _MY_ university
Jk, lovely presenter
Welease Woderwick.
Fantastic work. Greetings from Finland.
By this point, we have to assume the anchor systems on these ships are about as reliable as some of the window locks fitted to some of those tall buildings in Russia.
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was that a Zelensy joke?
And that's before getting started on stairs in russia. Apparently so poorly maintained that people trip and fly down them head first all the time.
Sooo long ago, already,
forgot, those jump-suit men...
@juansantana8448 bro what are you on about?
What anchor? "I have no idea what you are talking about". Thanks Sal. spot on as usual.
This guy needs to learn how to talk.
@@soflodoug you are projecting.
@@soflodougBecause you could do better?
It’s a good thing we can trust our government to be responsible about starting wars.
That rust is at least a week old, it was the Brits again....pornhub was lagging. Prove me wrong :P
My father would really have enjoyed your channel. He served in the Royal Australian Navy as a signalman from 1937 and during WW2. After he was medically retired from the Navy in 1947, he retained his interest in shipping of all types. I remember when we were small he would take us out to Point Cartwright Qld so we could watch all the large ships coming in to start their passage into Morton Bay to berth in Brisbane. There was a Pilot's station at Mooloolaba and you could sea the pilots going out from Point Cartwright to join the ships. Dad died shortly before his 90th birthday in 2010, but he passed his fascination in ships and shipping along to me.
I believe there was an interview with a Finnish police chief regarding this incident and he was asked if they had been in contact with the Russian authorities regarding the matter. "No, we haven't." Will you be in contact with them? "No, we won't."
Exactly and that’s part of the problem , the west is as guilty as hell over many crimes and now cry when some of their sh1t fly’s back at them , no sympathy for anything that happens in the West anymore
Yes there is, it is hilarious. The journalist continued asking 'Why?' and the chief replied 'I am not going to discuss this topic any further'.
Annoyingly difficult to translate the exchange. The gist is:
Q: "Have you been in contact with the Russian authorities?"
A: "No."
Q: "When will you be?"
A: "We won't."
Q: "Why not?"
A: "I will not further this discussion."
Really? Which journalist ask stupid questions like this.
@@tomw0815 It's not a stupid question.
When the ship hits the fan it's good to have a shipping guy to help navigate through the slick.
Clever
good one :-)
I'm sure it is just coincidence that at least three cargo ships sailing out of St. Petersburg have dragged anchors and damaged undersea cables.
It seems fair to me that either the insurance company pays for the repairs or the ship is confiscated, the crew interred (until the repairs are paid for), the cargo sold, and the ship sold to a friendly country or sold for scrap.
scrapping might actually cost money you know
the ship is trash and does not have any value
Insurance 🤣🤣🤣
Kiitos!
The world is complicated, thanks for helping to make sense of this stuff.
I love dropping in on this channel since the Baltimore Bridge incident. Thanks for keeping up to date with all the ship going on. :)
Thanks for watching!
Seriously. He's great!
I have adopted you as my news anchor. I get more factual information and level headed insight from this channel then the major news outlets. Thank you for your podcast! It’s very much appreciated and respected.
That's a low bar comparison, lol. Outstanding video!
@ fair point! I feel ashamed now comparing actual intelligence to trained monkeys haha
Nice pun!
I am as much a "land lubber" as I could be. But I love your channel and learn so much from it. Thanks for spending the time on it.
A lot of this stuff has to do with international trade which concerns everyone.
I live in Finland near one of the Baltic cables and the moored LNG tanker. I am a little intimidated by the fact that my husband's one man company was subjected to a cyber attack. The GPS interference is also starting to annoy me. This summer Finnair had to put the flights to Tarto, Estonia on hold due to GPS disturbance. When I go hunting the tracker shows where my dog is runnig, but it also shows me constantly moving around when I am not.
Gives us a chance to prepare and practice. Look at it like driving test on ice.
@@creativian68, however, something good also in GPS jamming happening. Now, before all old navigation equipment (ground stations) were decommissioned, the idiots got a reminder that GNSS (including GPS) is not something that could replace those systems, even it’s cheaper than having some ground-based navigation aids.
Seems like it could be potentially dangerous for shipping with all the jamming. The Baltic may not be very wide but I'm sure it could get pretty backed up with lots of maritime traffic.
I was driving around in South Eastern Estonia, not too far from the border and my GPS started acting wonky. Instead of showing me the direct route to Tartu, it showed me a route to Tartu.... through Russia with a massive detour.
Sometimes I am shown in my own home. Sometimes in the garden
Sometimes in the house down the road. I just accept that it is not telling me everything
Best and most comprehensive video blog about international issues with shipping. I always walk away from your videos knowing so much more. Great perspective and insight, and as you said, with the receipts to back it up. Yeah, there's a lotta ship going on in the world! Thanks Sal!
Thank you, Sal. A trusted sources of news and information are becoming more valuable every day. WGOWS is one of those sources for me. Thank you.
Greetings from Finland, this was interesting. I wish you had had all the updates already available related to the crew of the vessel etc.
Finally learned to watch the entire video before asking questions....as usual Sal addressed every question I had and then some.
Healthy and prosperous New Year's wishes.
25:28 The implied incredulity based solely on your voice as you add “inspected by GHANA..” is priceless.
thats because ghana is part of brics now and us just sank a couple of brics tankers so this is obvious retaliation but the thing is they have a lot more tankers than we have cables they can afford to play this game a lot longer than we can
@@violetquinnlawI don't know for certain, but I bet a tanker & its cargo costs more than repairing an underwater cable.
And if a whole bunch of loaded tankers begin failing safety inspections, with no real discernible ownership of the vessel (since ownership is deliberately hidden), I bet it becomes a lot harder to find patsies to bribe.
When authorities stopped the ship, it was still dragging the left anchor (or possibly both anchors). The ship was ordered to raise the anchors and when they raised the left anchor chain, there was no longer anchor at the end of the chain.
Bots will argue it never had two anchors, but who wants to drag chain without an anchor.
@@iam5085, it wasn't long time ago when the ship was photographed with both anchors. Anyway, the authorities will find the missing anchor from sea floor, the search is already in progress and it might be that they have already found it but haven't published information yet. It is relatively easy to follow the track of anchor from the damaged cables.
@@iam5085 Those chains usually weigh as much as the anchor alone.
@@newera478 True, but why would you do it? They were caught, nothing more to it.
@@iam5085 Why would I do what? What are you talking about?
The expertise, the solid wall-to-wall facts, subtle explanation so i am quick to understand the complexity, CHEFS KISS, Professor Mercagliano
Thank you!
That was a great presentation. Way more informed than I was 30 min ago. Thanks Sal.
Jake Broe recommended this channel, and it is brilliant ! So much information, things i never knew about shipping.
same
Heard about this from Jake Broe too.
Found this channel 3 years ago; had no idea it was going to be an authoritative source for info on a couple of wars, the Jones Act and American infrastructure, and the global realignment👍
Thanks Amanda!
Found it 3 hours ago.
Same here. Found it after the Evergiven incident and have never looked back.
@@PaulCashman Evergreen? Not an "actually", trying to make sure I haven't missed somethng…
@@jaelwyn sorry, the ship is named "Ever Given." I ran it together. (I KNEW it didn't look right.)
Greetings from Finland 👋🇫🇮
This was so interesting and informative! Thanks for posting!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Extremely important and interesting topic - and, exceptionally well researched and presented.
Way to go Finland. Glad you have the audacity to catch the villains.
Thank you for such comprehensive coverage of this, and many other things. I really appreciate your channel.
Sounds like those nations need to require ships to pay for "anchor watch pilots" to be stationed on board during the entire time of their passage.
@@brettany_renee_blatchleythe Russian vessel that was anchored of the Thames Estuary for a while a couple of months ago (it was mainstream news for a week) was required to be escorted by a tug when entering the Baltic so this sort of thing must be possible.
Destroyers or a person on board a ship, which one is cheaper and more accurate ??
@@brettany_renee_blatchley There is a constant traffic of tankers going to or coming from Primorsk or Ust-Luga (both are near St. Petersburg). There are at least 50 of them in the Gulf of Finland right now, and probably at all times.
We simply don't have enough military/border control vessels to keep an eye on all of them.
It is a weird world out there; it seems it was much better when I was part of it! Very retired, no more boats or ships, for me! Been a heliguard on semisubmersible oil platforms and worked as a firefighter on ferries (been a passenger on Tor Scandinavia when a Norwegian arsonist set it on fire and killed a pair celebrating their silver anniversary)! The first ship that came to our assistance was a Soviet tanker, and then came the West German Navy, in the form of a destroyer, that sent a firefighting unit onboard to help the crew, which had fought the fire for 12 hours by then. Within an hour the fire was quenched!
Thank you for your constant coherence. You are a very good communicator. Thanks. Kieron
Inspector / Professor Sal….you are Amazing! Great in depth explanation.
I appreciate that.
Thank you, again! I'm still wondering why television network news can't be as informative as yours. Happy New Year!
They're pushing particular narratives, generally to low attention span and IQ individuals.
Operation Mockingbird and all that. I know how it sounds, but grab a tinfoil hat and look into it!
Estonian TV told, that electricity cabel is broken again, that means prise is going up or there will be no enough power available, but they avoid detiled information about where cabel broke. Finland doesent care much about what happens in Estonia or other Baltic countries, they try to avoid any conflicts with Russia. Must be naive to think that they will close their waters to Russian ships destroying cabels.
local finnish news (like yle news) have loads.
Not sure what your primary language is, but that might be an issue. I know here in the US, we are awful about reporting what happens overseas. If it isn't already put into English, we dont bother with it usually (sadly). I don't know if the Finns spend much time putting news out in English, but the French rarely do
I don't have a TV microwave and still trying to break free of tech and go down under 😂
Great work! This from Finland. 🙂
I'm a seaman myself. Thank You very much for youy detailed elaboration
One correction: the ship was in international waters during the incident. It only entered Finnish territorial waters after having been instructed to do so by the Finnish authorities.
The main shipping channel in the Gulf of Finland is outside the territorial waters of both Finland and Estonia, which greatly complicates controlling incidents such as this. It's not known whether the Finns would have boarded the ship if this haud refused to turn to Finnish waters. I presume they would have done so, because the danger to other cables and the gas pipeline was imminent and obvious.
The number one anchor securing for vessels on passage out at sea is the ‘anchor lashing’ which is a heavy wire through a link shackled into the windlass forward of the anchor stopper. The ‘Anchor Lashing’ is taken off when in sheltered waters to be ready for emergency anchoring but the stopper still stays down. Also there would be a minimum of 11 but likely 12 shackles of chain on this vessel. Great work thank you!
Sal, you are the only person I can take ship talking from 😂. Happy new year from overcast Denmark 🇩🇰
I heard about this. Now I can get some facts. Thank you, Sal.
More very good coverage and interesting and worrying times.
From Australia. Thank you Sal. Greatly enjoy your maritime analysis.
I can't add any useful conjecture or science to this report. I am but your humbled student. I'm not worthy!
Thanks for your patient mentoring professor. I owe you so much for the knowledge you've given me.
I am hooked on learning, from you, about shipping. So much more than I ever thought I even wanted to know. Who'd have thought that I even wanted to learn about shipping before you started educating us.
Thanks for everything Professor Sal!
Happy New Year.
🖖🙏
Yuppers me too like learning
This was fascinating and extremely important information. Easy for any any one to understand. Thank you and happy new year!
Thanks to you and for your channel! I wouldn't know any of this if you (and Chief MAKOi) didn't have your channels available. In the time it took me to type this the views went from 103k to 104k; awesome viewership!
Good stuff as always. I always learned something when I watch you.
As always, full of interesting information and insights. Happy New Year Sal from Sydney!
Hybrid attacks don’t meet the criteria of ‘Innocent Passage’, access to the Danish Straits should be limited for any Russia affiliated vessel.
Exactly.
Blocade, act of war
Well if the anchors wont stay up, nato has to figure out something else. This is not the only trick uve been doing to these countries lately, for example gps harrashing is constant. @@ljubomirculibrk4097
That would make Sweden and Denmark participants in the Ukraine war.
And would probably have NATO to start the third World War.
The Ukrainian war will probably end in march/april next year.
Crimea will belong to Russia and maybe some parts of eastern Ukraine.
Diplomacy will end this war.
USA are more beneficient to have great connections with Russia as China is USAs no 1 enemy.
This is just down to economics.
@@ljubomirculibrk4097 escort it
This Channel as of late appears to be "What's Going on with Russian ships"
Thank you for Keeping us informed of what going on in the world! Love your Content!
Basically, "Blame Russia and ignore the rest".
@@olliefoxx7165 blame? like taking responsibility.
"No news is good news".... and there's a lot of news about Russian shipping. 😂
@@olliefoxx7165 Well, it would be great if Russia would finally stop giving everyone good reason to blame them.
@PlayChaosVoices Taking responsibility? Who blew up the Nordstream pipeline? Who is blowing up Russias civilian ships? As an American citizen I have seen almost continous wars around the globe started by our deepstate and military industrial complex. I'm TIRED of seeing our youth squandered on wars that make bankers rich
In addition of missing anchor, the ship was above the electric cable when the blackout transpired. Uisko is a military ship, with 50-cal and 40mm grenade launcher and it’s fast. Turva is heavy ship that could tow an ocean liner on ice, and it had the military helicopter, that police swat-team used to mount the ship, and were tasked to storm the bridge. They were heavily armed and prepared to face enemy commandos. There were none, but there was no way that this ship is going anywhere after this borderline *act of war*. They were going to be seized, either with these two patrol vessels, or with real warships if need be. We’ve been exemplary in our patience, now was time to act.
Whoah, that got serious in a good way! I like it. :) "We're done putting up with this!" I mean, if nothing else, messing up those cables even by lazy-accident is STILL a ton of money being needed to fix it. Even if it's pure accident (which I doubt even now) then the lazy crews need 'The Fear Of God' put into them so they stop being so lazy. Those stories get around in the shipping world...and apparently in our UA-cam-Shipping World! :)
Nah, Uisko is a coast guard ship, not a military ship. Still armed though.
Though, she's definitely not fast, Wikipedia lists her at 12-14 knots.
Turva is the faster ship at 18.
@@chryssalidbait8765 I thought that what you are talking about, I was in Uisko in the army in early 2000’s, I know it’s fast, but seems my information was obsolete, the fairly new ship of the coast guard goes with the same name and she’s a modern beauty compared to much smaller vessel that I used to ride. And it’s huge in comparison. Funny because Finnish word ”Uisko” means a small row boat with a sail. And is also a question meaning ”could it swim?” 😄
Thanks for the very detailed update Sal.
just a great description of the factors, legal boundaries, and potential consequences. Great Work and thanks for sharing.
Just found your site with the two river tankers sinking in the Kerch Strait. Absolutely fascinating!! I spent 20 years in the merchant marine (deck and engine) in Alaska, and I am glued to every one of your videos now. Thanks!
Anchor drag is unusual? Not so much. Three of them at intersections of critical infrastructure? Extremely extraordinary. Yes.
I am amazed at the importance of merchant shipping to the wellbeing of economy. Thanks for your totally incited expertise analysis.
Oops, we didn't notice that the anchor was missing....sorry...
"lemme go by again, I know we left that darned anchor around here somewhere!"
It's not a mistake to deploy the for'ard crew on anchor release. It's a deliberate act.
From anchor machinery to geo-politics analysis.. amazingly useful coverage. Thank you, Sal.
Sal, you inspire confidence.
Your rational/logic/technical explanations of these marine events are so thorough that it is difficult to identify "partisan" elements in the data you share with us. You make an excellent analyst and certainly a great "anchor" to deliver the news in a way that are easily understood by people, even educated ones like myself who are ignorant of (merchant) marine intricacies and other normal procedures.
Your analysis help us understand in more detail the actual long shots, short shots and CHEAP shots of international politics and "diplomacy."
Thank you so very much for your labor.
Certainly glad I started following you after noticing your Key Bridge series.
This was a great explanation thanks! All the best for the upcoming year :)
Very clear overview of what is an extremely complex subject-something most of us have never heard of. But seems 6o be critical now. thanks
Thanks for keeping us informed on these incidents, Sal.
The layman's explanation is highly appreciated 👍
I am new to this shipping news platform but your suggestions are certainly convincing and interesting. Thank you.
Thanks so much Sal, your videos always help me better understand what is going on with shipping.
Thanks for a great post, you made everything clear and concise
Great information. Thank you for citing your sources. This kind of unbiased information is very refreshing in today's media climate. 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Never a dull moment in shipping!
A lot of ship happening.
Superb content sir, sourced and informative, you tell us when you are stating and guessing. Cheers.
Yes, exactly! This is an easy life hack to guess whether someone is probably actually a good researcher and teacher. Always good to double-check to make sure, but this rule is pretty reliable.
Real eye opener, keep up the GOOD WORK, much appreciated Ta
Wow! I sure learned a lot listening to you. Thank you for your reporting.
Yes it's not just what's going on but "how things work" like great teachers
Thanks for the great, detailed video! According to the latest information, the EAGLE S was full of spy equipment and the crew was scared half to death.
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Outstanding work, Shipmaster. You are the best of the rest in my book. I learn so much in a short time from you. God Bless you, Shipmaster Sal. Love, michael.
The Finns are badass 💪💪💪
Glad to have them on our side 🇺🇸🇫🇮
Not gonna be allies for long with your soon-to-be president's view of NATO. The EU is bolstering their defense for a reason
Yeah, we are your allies.. only because we have to. Otherwise, we see you as just as imperialist.
Soon-to-be President Trump isn't the biggest fan of NATO either, which is why the EU is bolstering internally.
@@Sara-yz7nchello ruski bot 🤌
Thanks. Just ignore other comment from some not presenting majority of us or might not be Finn at all..
Excellent information video. Well done.
Thanks! Very riveting! Clearly, more news on this issue will be coming!
You are so good at this Sal
You can see in the photo of the empty hawsepipe is polished as if the anchor was let go recently.
Nope! It's polished toward the front, if polished by dragging action it would be polished toward the rear.
Looked like bare metal to me. The rust is scrapped off.
Sal, your channel is a gem. I'm not all that interested in shipping but you are so good at what you do that I'd listen to you talk about just about anything. Keep up the good work, sir! (When people talked about the promise of the internet when it first came out, I would think that channels like this are exactly what people had in mind.)
The new Axis Powers need to start Finding Out much more frequently and firmly. This is fantastic.
Well if you start doing this. How many "Ally's" ships are even worth using for trade. They would not make it to port outside of their EEZ's. Even American ships might run into "Problems" going across the Pacific.
@@nbell5050 How's that related to the sea traffic in the Baltic? Clearly, the ships going in the Baltic need to be properly insured, their final beneficial owner needs to be known and its crew needs to be fully certified. No one is going to see that as excessive after what happened. If that stops the entire black fleet from entering the Baltic sea, then that's an issue for the criminal syndicates operating the black fleet.
Now try to make that argument about the Pacific ...
@@lacdirk The OP clearly stated "Axis Powers". They are talking about attempting similar actions against multiple countries. The world is more that the 15 percent that is the west dude.
Do you even realise what doing away with open international waters means to China? They can't wait to get rid of Americans constantly camping right off their shores
@@nbell5050 Only the US has real naval power projection "across the Pacific". China has hordes of coastal vessels, but is much more limited in true blue water capacity.
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Thank you from Finland and greetings to Latvia. Blessings!❤