Likely, possibly, unexplained. Yet CNN somehow knows about it lmao.
Root cause analysis determined that the reason for the incident was that it was a ship built in Russia.
The front fell off!
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
That poor ship fell out a window
I hope it was 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.
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.
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.
This is Ursa Major. It sank in 2024.
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
Old news
don’t know why im geting downvotes, this is old news.
Now that’s how you renege on a gift!
“Crew expendable.”
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…
Those ship attacking killer whales are now a nuclear super power.
killer whales with nuclear powered lasers.
Let me just leave this here:
South Korea’s ADD showcases new Supercavitating Torpedo at MADEX 2025
ADD said that the development of this supercavitating torpedo is currently about two-thirds complete, and that after further maturing the torpedo’s stabilization control technology, it will finally secure the design and testing technology of the test body.
…The MRXUUV (Mission Reconfigurable eXtra-large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) currently under development by ADD could serve as testbed.
According to an interview with the ADD chief researcher, the supercavitating torpedo displayed at MADEX 2025 is an actual tested torpedo, designed in size to fit in a UUV, capable of being guided (in the initial phase of the launch, at low speed), and is being developed to sink enemy main surface ships with ultra-high-speed kinetic energy without a warhead.
The publicly released timeline doesn’t line up, but the motivations do.
What would a South Korean torpedo two-thirds of the way through development today have anything to do with a Russian ship sinking off the coast of Spain a year and a half ago?
I’d wager this was Ukraine’s handiwork using conventional or drone weapons.
The reactors were bound for North Korean subs giving a potential motivation for the South Koreans. The Spanish claimed evidence of a supercavating torpedo strike.
Also the Ukrainians are rarely this mysterious when they blow something up. They are openly at war with Russia and thus don’t need to be.
