Russian ‘floating bomb’ filled with explosive cargo is stuck off the coast of Kent | LBC 

Yes it was!

and? Russia is one of the world's largest exporters of it. The EU and many other countries import it in huge quantities. It would stay in Russia if people didn't show a huge demand... we *desperately* need it - ask any farmer!

That is because Russia is the world's top fertilizer exporter or at least it was before the war.

@@gurglejug627 Russia is a major producer of Ammonium Nitrate, but they are not the largest producers of it. The top three producers of Ammonium Nitrate are: 1. EuroChem based in Switzerland 2. Orica based in Australia 3. CF Industries based in the USA

@@rooster1012 Russia is NOT the top exporter of Ammonium Nitrate -- their top exporter is #4 with EuroChem, Orica and CF Industries surpassing their top exporter UralChem. However, when Ammonium Nitrate is involved in disaster the Russians are indeed top of the list!

I like how you think. The SAS should board and take over control immediately and put a Navy captain at the helm we know the crew are playing games due to the course they have taken so far.

They could leave it for Russia moored to one of the support pillars for the Kerch Bridge 🤔

@@phuealThat gets my vote 😂

Arrest the captain ha don't make me laugh he would get released so they could put someone who comments on Facebook in his place

100 pounds at a time. XD

It is only in the UK because of Denmark, so that seems unlikely.

@@DoveringFifths They were in Northern Norway first - pretty close to Russia. This is all a Russian game.

The details of its movement since departure, and where it has tried to dock since, are rather peculiar and have a suspicious air, especially given the nature of relations with Russia. The ship has tried to dock near sensitive NATO installations in Northern Europe.

Last time I heard it was near dungeness nuclear power station it's definitely on purpose

It’s not just here because of Denmark, though. Russia would have known exactly which countries Woodbridge, this ship and could have quite easily estimated and impacted it final destination. As a way of perhaps disrupting I don’t know the busiest shipping highway in Europe and being able to claim no real responsibility.

My 3rd home is nearby 😦

Cancel the double glazing

I heard that crew member Sergei was down to his last pack of smokes.

It’s come from Russia that’s all you need to know about rules. They don’t exist to pootin

It passed Russian regulations.

That's the problem with flags of convenience on dangerous shipping and countries/owners who flout all the safety rules. They don't care about the environment, or the crews and poor devils likely to have to go to their aid!

The fronts not going to fall off calm down

Don't worry, it sounds like they may be trying to tow it out of the environment.

​@@markhodgkinson8431is this one of the ones where that doesn't happen? No cardboard or cardboard derivatives?

Yeah, the front's not meant to fall off.

Minimum crew requirements as well

Being only human is the problem.

This world has two human factions. High and low intelligence ! Both are at war . Happy to say intelligence always wins.

Yeah, white race!

@@Anthony-dj1ud You must forgive us for inventing the modern world.

Sure. Are you having a laugh?! 1/ most indoor herds don’t produce manure (straw based), they produce slurry. 2/ most indoor cattle are a distance from arable crops 3/ How many tanker trips are you planning, to fertilise each field?

which we would have to buy from russia or ukraine

we cannot produice our own feritlisert we dont havethe farming industry to produce our own, also much of our veg comes from ukraine

@@benwaddington2186 ammonium nitrate is mainly used in explosive and chimical transformations. Calling it a fertilizer is only a way to avoid certain certifications and profit from subventions and taxes cuts programs for agricultural suplier chaines.

Pathogens

😂😂😂

Why?

you're right - the moment it has unloaded its completely normal everyday carried and traded cargo of fertiliser which our farmers are desperate for.

It is not in UK waters.

Do some research it's not near the coast probably still in international waters so many people have been triggered by this reporting of non facts

I'd rather not have it towed through my country (Denmark).

Clearly didn't watch the actual report did you, just read the headline 🤣

You offering?

Just thought that and then saw your comment.

@@jwenneberg It came though on its way out!

😂

The bigger worry is that it's trojan horse of sorts, from Putin.

@@dreadtrain2846 A Trojan horse for what???, somehow I don’t think Putin is going to use it as an excuse to invade us ffs.

I hear that some people like David Cameron wants to rebuild Margate, maybe this is his way of demolishing it cheaply

That’s an over estimate £5 max

Always an opening for dark British humour 😂

I won't be going to Margate for an ice cream this weekend.🍦

@@splodge5714 😂

That's probably because your mail has to go on a plane.

Russia doesn't follow any rules.

it's not explosive on its own - the reportage is a load of bowlocks.

​​​@@gurglejug627 exactly the press always exaggerate everything to get attention. It's fertilizer as it stands.

​@@gurglejug627- of course. It's LBC.

We have opens borders.

@@m101ist I thought Brexit solved that?

@@phueal I agree it haven't.

😮😮 oh I hope it dont blow up the towers and the fort 😢

An explosion 7 times bigger than Beirut in the busiest and one of the narrowest shipping lanes in the world and ‘it’s safe enough for now’? Russia is using very low tech measures to disrupt trade and test reactions to threats.

You can't stop a ship, navigating outside national borders. The concept of "freedom of the seas" can be found in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea under Article 87(1) which states: "the high seas are open to all states, whether coastal or land-locked". The ships position is at 51.50 N, 1.75 E, 30 Km North East of Margate.

@@m.walther6434 Do you know how it got here>

@@TheTilly65 Norway turned it away.

When did it get there ???

The ship is NOT in Kent, it is in the ocean miles from the UK in international waters. The only legal means the Brits have to stop them is if the ship meanders too close to offshore oil rigs and therefore endanger them. It maybe the goal of Russia to destroy part of the oil industry, but the more likely effort is to scare the British people into acquiescing to Russian demands to stop help Ukraine. If that is their goal it highlights just how out of touch Putin is with history as there is nothing in the British character that suggests they will submit to Putin! To be sure, there are now as there has always been those willing to accept the demands of a belligerent, you know, like Neville Chamberlin, but the British people are not so easily boxed into a corner! This scare tactic by Russia WILL backfire and WILL result in the Brits upping their support to Ukraine. Russia's actions continue to demonstrate their complete ignorance of reality and history! The Brits will NOT be cowed!

Inane

If you saw the fertiliser explosion in Beirut, try to imagine how far the shock wave 7 times that amount would travel unhindered by any obstructions and carrying with it fragments of ship at super sonic speed. In short the only difference is nuclear explosions emit radiation non nuclear ones don’t.

Yah that’s about it. Propaganda

NO, that wasn't what happened.

​@@RTC1655What did happen?

Purposely

🤣

He's too late.

Try and study a map.

​@@axelaminoff9258 Glavset 🇷🇺🐀🐁🐀🐀

@@axelaminoff9258 you dont need to go through denmark to get to Russia, You're forgetting about Archangelsk and Murmansk which are on Russia's arctic coast, accessible by sailing around the top of the Nordkapp

🤣

'Danish Straits' is what he said? According to the transcript at least, which is correct.

@@pixelfrenzy The waters between Denmark and Sweden are called belts (bælt) and sounds (sund). Not straits.

True😂😂

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That's alright, mama!

It's not in UK waters

Sitting in my home on a clifftop just outside Margate, whether this ship is just in- or outside territorial waters seems pretty academic. 😀

I doubt it would be anything more than a ripple, check out nuclear tests on shipping

Yes, a tsunami triggered by explosion, long been threatened by the nut jobs in the Kremlin. Hasn't anyone in UK read any real news? Not the Mail, Sun, Express or Telegraph. They keep you in the dark. Could be Putin's ace card to blackmail the UK into not allowing the use of British long range rockets by Ukraine.

nope. Not one that's measurable without radar.

😂😂😂😂😊😂😂😂

The Halifax explosion caused a 60ft wave that also devasted Halifax and Dartmouth, aside from the explosion.

How's that supposed to work?

@@Vindolin look up explosive properties. If you double the amount, you 9x the boom.

How do you know?

I doubt it. It's fertilizer. The ocean is truly massive. There'd be an algal bloom, but over the long run, it would disperse and everything would even out. It's biodegradable. Get it out into the deep ocean, out of the channel, away from the coast.

PS. how do you think that stuff comes to Britain, never by sea!. Or do you think it's not used in Britain.

@@hurri7720 It is highly likely that any that we imported did not arrive in such a large single quantity on a rust bucket that is alleged to be falling apart.

they are making efforts to leave, but the danes and the brits wont let it, refuse to allow repairs due to sanction no doubt and now complain about a self made issue?

Problem is... the nearest port is one of the most highly populated areas in the world. If the chemicals explode, casualties could be in the high hundreds of thousands... or even in the millions.

​@Senbei01 it won't just spontaneously combust it takes a series of events for it to ignite and explode.

Common sense has left the building.

@pauldelaney5990 Common sense is not common these days. It is far and few between, if anywhere at all.

really? a mass of lawful fertiliser, traded the world overm daily (which may or may not have explosive inhibitor added anyway - we don't know) which cannot detonate without a very serious ignition charge as well as a mass of propellant added to it.

because someone hid an initiator, primer and 20kg of booster in the centre of the centre hold...

An environmental disaster. If it's a choice between Kent, and the fish stocks. I'd chose the fish every time. I mean, who would miss Margate, or Kent in general?

@@pleasantville4529 It's just fertilizer. Would you rather see what it does when it explodes when DRY. The fish will recover human loss means lose of intelligence and future scientists doctors etc.

not that special if you know what you're doing...

😂😂 Ukraine is your special circumstance..

No kidding this is a big nothing: ships have to make emergency stops all the time, all countries have ships carrying dangerous stuff. Hate russia for valid reasons not because of hype men taking advantage of people’s ignorance of how modern international shipping works.

And you notice how that made sure to say how much of a disaster it'd be for the environment, also ... gotta hit all the points.

Carbide mine you mean

Better still send starmer

Nope! Nigel 😂

I believe it's not a small boat, so I doubt little Nige would be interested

Nigel wants the best for you, he should be spared

Spot the tosspot labour voters......

And a nuclear power station

Zero chance,. The ship deliberately headed for that known location. Putin using GREY WAR tactics.

tosh - it's very unlikely to be able to create a shock wave enough to be able to set anything off over a mile away absolute max, and there is no evidence whatsoever that any of the cargo of the Montgomery is still viable - it may be, but equally it may not be. Most likely a small percentage of it is. Even if it blew up at brand new maximum potential it would do no harm to anything other than passing shipping, out there in the mud. Either way, there are far more efficient and effective ways to cause mischief.