Posted on 08/08/2020 9:35:57 AM PDT by texas booster
...The Rhosus left for its last journey from Batumi, Georgia, in September 2013. Its cargo was destined for Mozambique, but the captain was ordered to make an unscheduled stop in Beirut to take on additional freight. Captain Prokoshev said they needed to make extra cash to pay for their passage through the Suez Canal. Lawyers for the ship’s creditors said the additional cargo was supposed to be transported to Jordan.
...The Rhosus was left abandoned, and Lebanese authorities transferred its cargo to a warehouse in the port. In 2015, the ship was moved 1,000 feet up the pier where it remained for about three years. Satellite images show a ship matching the dimensions of the Rhosus, with open cargo bays, indicating it is empty.
It can also be seen in the background of a picture posted on Twitter in March 2016, clearly recognizable through the yellowish color of the ship’s bridge.
The Rhosus was leaking badly and began sinking in February 2018. Within days, the ship was fully submerged. Stephen Wood, a satellite image expert at space technology company Maxar, analyzed an image from Feb. 18, 2018, for The Times. He used multi-spectral imagery that can penetrate water and better reveal submerged objects and features. The resulting image shows the ship in great detail, despite being underwater.
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Net decision form the article is that the Rhosus sank in Beirut harbor, next to the sea wall, about Feb 16 - 18, 2018.
Thanks. I’ll start using this when I can.
That should buff right out.
The story is going to keep changing until people stop asking questions.
Pretty soon, it’s going to be a semi that was filled with turnips from Iceland.
So what does this have to do with anything? The cargo of AN was moved from the ship in 2013 when it was first seized, to the warehouse that is now a crater.
That was a heck of an explosion. Wondering if it may be the largest man made non-nuclear explosion recorded?
Idk, giyf.
Kinda snarky, DYT?
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We are not positive exactly when the cargo was unloaded, since the crew was onboard (being held hostage) for at least a year.
There are still lots of questions as to what exploded, and what all was in that warehouse that went boom.
Ok thanks, just the title of the article suggests there was some mystery to this ship, when I thought it was pretty well know it ended up there and didn’t leave, that’s why I asked.
Yes certainly questions around what started the fire in the ‘fireworks’ warehouse. There were indeed fireworks there (we could see and hear them going off in the initial fire), however that doesn’t mean there weren’t other munitions or a ‘missile factory’ or whatever operating there.
However given the orange/red cloud of smoke seen after the second explosion, it is quite clear that it was AN, the orange/red smoke is a telltale sign of the nitrogen oxide which is produced in an AN explosion.
Ted Kennedy’s royal title was Sir Rhosus.
Sir Rhosus of Liverr.
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Thanks for that link!
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