Did MV Rubymar Cut Cables in the Red Sea? | Abandoned, Adrift, and Sinking after Houthi Attack 

Maritime Executive reports, "According to the port authority, the vessel is laden with 22,000 tonnes of fertilizer, and it is a potentially explosive cargo (IMDG Class 5.1)." The ship is drifting northward in the Red Sea. If there is not enough chain paid out and due to her increased weight from flooding, she may be dragging her anchor along the bottom and snagging cables on the sea floor.

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I am an LSA engineer, operating mostly in Europe. Whenever I see footage like this, I look for the boats, and always get a sense of accomplishment when I see empty davits....even if I have had nothing to do with the vessel. It means someone like me, somewhere on this earth, did his job and made sure that the LSA gear was fit for purpose. This is why we do what we do, and why I love what I do. Thanks for the video, good work. Subscribed.....

13:15 This is also an issue that was discovered on the US Navy LCS ships. Sure automation reduced the crew size which made them cheaper to operate but the smaller crew compromised the battle worthiness if the ship was to come under fire or have some other emergency (it's not unheard of for Navy ships to run into things).

Given the ship originated from Sadia Arabia my best guesses is the cargo is either urea or DAP (diammonium phosphate). Both fertilizers are relatively easy to ship by bulk carrier. Given the destination was Bulgaria. it's most likely cargo is urea.... as the cost of urea is relatively high in Europe at the moment (roughly $350/metric ton) and fertilizer dealers would be stocking up on urea for the spring planting..

Great brief! Thanks for putting the picture together!

Look at the rails by the area where she's bending, they are slightly folded - you nailed it! Also on the starboard rail a break in the deck edge plating....the blast wave may have actually bent the ship a bit right at that bulkhead.

Been listening out of curiosity for years but these last few months have made you a prime source of detail and depth we just don’t get from mainstream sources. Thank you for everything you do

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Thank you for bringing part of the world to us.

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Excellent explanation of what is happening to that ship. Very scary situation based on the possible implications.

During the cold war Ships used to drag anchor in Swedish waters and pull up Sea mines. Fixed mines are connected to a cable for wartime activation and can either be floating or bottom laying

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Judging by the way the oil slick s trailing straight aft, the anchor is on bottom. It may not be holding the ship in place, but it is keeping her bow into whatever wind/current there is.

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Scary and concerning times Sal. I'm glad we have you to help make it make sense, (if sense is possible in this madness!) And - - look at your subscriber count FLY!! You're going to hit 200 K any day now!! And every one of them was earned! Congratulations Sal!

and yet again , excellent and timely report. thank you Sir

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No divers. Use paired UUVs with suction cup or epoxy grab-anchors to manipulator arm hold the drone to the hullside as you jam and hold nozzles of high expansion rate plastic foam into the breached plates. Stop water ingress. Apply Quick-Crete saturated canvas patches over the hull perforations. The edge is a pull strip which exposes an epoxy which gives rapid patch adhesion, the middle is naval sailcloth, impregnated with self-setting concrete 'dust' which hardens the rest of the patch (think bandaid peel and stick with an integral plaster). You've now sealed the hull. Drill through an undamaged plate, opposite side from the breach, and insert/weld a pump and evacuation stent (one above the other) to begin draining the hull, from the bottom. Push air in, accelerate water out. Stability is not an issue, water exits the same way it entered (via gravity) and the ship rises as the air moves up. This is essential because you don't want to 'suck' on the water or you will pop the patches. You want a constant pressure differential of an increasing air bubble providing an enhanced, natural, gravity flow , downwards, not outwards.

Not a single mention about this story on UK MSM. Thanks for telling it. 👍

I hate to see a ship like this , old but still had some life . Sal , good reporting, love your show !!!👏👏👏

8:00 - The angle of the portside stanchions at that point says yes, it's gone.

Incredible that the boat is still afloat. Agree with you, there is no way it stays that way for much longer.

I never knew I needed updates of this sort until I became a subscriber. Now I know better. Thanks for the content

This is not a picture of a fully loaded vessel initially on her marks, just look at how far the bows are in the air?? The reason she is afloat is because she has a large amount of reserve buoyancy which doesn't strike me as carrying a full load of cargo initially as described.

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Good informations, objectives too and this is the best aspect in those times of so many enormous lies from official medias. Hope you go on like this. Thank you.

thank you! for the update on this event.

Superb video, enjoyed the analysis about the damage very interesting

Great commentary, wonderful show.

It is nice to hear from someone who knows what he's talking about and explain it clearly to the uninitiated. I, myself am a retired merchant navy navigator and can attest that the information is authentic. looking at the chart displayed on the video, not likely that the anchor reached the bottom, and even if it reached would not do any good.

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Professor Sal Thank You for the update

This could be quite a salvage deal for somebody. There are some amazing stories of salvage vessels chronicled in two books written by Farley Mowat about Foundation Salvage out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. These are hair raising adventures of salvage operations in the North Atlantic and are a great read for land lubber and seaman alike. The first book “ Grey Seas Under” covers the early days when steam was king and the second “ Foundation Josephine” covers a later period. I would recommend them to anyone who is drawn to the sea and love a good adventure story.

Thanks again, Sal. You have set a standard for shipping and international trade news. Everyone else is now playing catch-up to you.

Thanks again Sal for coverage on what's going on in the Red Sea areas. I learned a lot about Ships 🚢 from your channel

Thank for updating thing is crazy 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏

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Thank you for such a technical breakdown. Always grateful to learn new things.

Wonderful post. Very informative. Thank you Sal.

I'm glad none of the crew were killed. Let's not forget the crew of Galaxy Leader still held in Yemen.

thanks, Sal, you da man!

man, that is some crazy footage.

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Fabulous effort.

Hi sal, great video as always. The cargo is rated imdg 5.1 so it has to be ammonia nitrate fertilizer. Same as what leveled Beirut and Tianjin. Other people are saying Urea/DAP but those are not covered under imdg.

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E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News keeps coming to mind with each listen.

If the fertilizer has AN in it, the reaction with water will be interesting at that scale as its violently Endothermic= draws heat from surroundings. You may end up with a ship made into an iceberg.

*THERE IS GOING TO BE* a massive algae bloom in the next few years in the red sea...

Never thought I would be subscribed to a channel about maritime shipping. Very informative video as always, thanks for posting.

Thanks Sal. Very informative. Measured and casual delivery.

As of March 2, she's sunk.

The US is in poor state full stop. Not just the navy.

Thank you. This was informative and easy to understand.

So informative, thanks very much

If you ask me, this hass been escalated already. Let's go to Yemen and clean house.

Thanks Sal, informative as always. 😊😊😊

Thanks mate, esp info regarding dragged anchor

As as follower of battleship NJ, one of America's superpowers was their damage control abilities. It makes a big difference on how well a crew is able to perform damage control.

Thanks, Dr Sam! I’ve been wondering about that one.

Thanks for your informend takes overall, it's good to know consumer prices likely aren't coming down. Depressing, but good to know.

Thanking the Houthis for bringing me to this channel.

excellent report

I never realized the importance of free waters for everyone until the Bab al-Mandab drinking game. Seriously, I never connected the dots with how serious all of this really is. Thank you for the honest reporting of all this trouble.

Thanks!

Nice explanation. Thank you.

Super video!

It has been known for many years that a near miss with a HE warhead often causes more damage to a ship than a direct hit.

Thanks. Excellent presentation 😊

"may you live in interesting times." Yes.

Great analysis!

Definitely interesting and well done coverage. I am surprised at lack of current location and it would be worth knowing what the length of the Anchor chain would be for that class ship. Amazed its stayed afloat this long. That seems to indicate that its a well built ship.

Niche channels like yours is what makes RU-vid great.

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Thank you, now we know the probability that the ship will go down.

Very informative,thanks Sal!

Fascinating !

Wow. We are not seeing these images in the MSM.

The cable/anchor possibilities are an interesting add on to the stories about cables being cut. I'm as clueless about truth in this region as I am about port and starboard. I often wonder if my ignorance (and the general public's) isn't occasionally used. Thus this channel and the information you put out is so vital. Thanks!

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If the after part breaks off and sinks the first 4 holds could posibly be salvaged. In the mid-70's I saw a situation in which the front 2 thirds of a tanker, the Philippine Leader, was salvaged after the aft section broke off and sank. The ship was in balast and an explosion in the tank just forward of the bridge broke its back. The bow end was taken in tow by a Dutch salvage tug that was in the area (Atlantic/Indian Ocean south of Cape Aghulas)

Thanks, Sal. Gabriel Bouvier in Norway.

The Dutch are the world leaders in salvage, it would be interesting to have their thoughts on the salvageability of this vessel and how it could be acheived. The salvage of the Costa Concordia was amazing.

Generally speaking, the mainstream media ignores maritime incidents and news. I don't know why, but that's been my experience. Thank you Sal for your in depth, timely Shipping News.

Thank you for this video.

Thanks, I did enjoy this video which is of immediate relevance. Going back 40 years now we were getting the same kind of news from the Gulf. I would just like to mention one virtually forgotten incident, that of the BP British Renown, hit by anti ship missile in the Gulf, fortunately without loss of life, but could so easily have been a total loss.

Very good analysis of this situation.

Thank you for this very interesting discussion. I'll guess that "fertilizers" stands for "nitrates" (definitely not phosphates coming from Asia) and those are indeed quite dangerous (may explode as happened in Beirut or, if sunk, will cause algal blooms and oxygen depletion probably). Also very interesting that the US Navy only has three salvage ships, which is an indication of their misplaced priorities IMO (they probably rely on private tow-ships but that's not something you can do in a war zone).

Thanks for the clear description of the situation. Information is essential in understanding the consequences of this global threat.

I enjoy how you explain things so that we stay informed. Because the ship is/was sinking slowly, could someone come in and remove some of the fertilizer, bay 5 first, to keep it afloat?

Much prep may need to be done before attempting to tow. I have seen soft patches used for large holes, and emergency pumps brought in to get the water out of a ship grounded and the aft aux machinery room flooded.