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The crew of the emergency refrigerator "Irina" was delivered to Yuzhno-Kurilsk. They are trying to save the ship itself
All 19 members of the crew of the ship-refrigerator "Irina" (port of the postscript-Vladivostok), who received the hole and refusal of the engine during a strong storm in the Kuril Islands, were delivered by the Tatarstan vessel to Yuzhno-Kurilsk. It arrived at the port of the port and is waiting for the weather and permission to approach the berth, RIA Novosti told RIA Novosti on Thursday the press service of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Ekaterina Potrekova.
According to her, the storm at sea weakens. If on Wednesday the wind gusts reached 30 meters per second, and the wave height is 6 meters, then on Thursday these indicators are half as much.
The emergency refrigerator itself, on board which is more than 500 tons of fish, withstood the night storm of the storm and remained afloat near the island of Kunashir, ITAR-TASS reports. The ship is anchored with a differential (roll) for the stern, the wind in this area is 15 meters per second, the height of the waves is up to two meters. He is insured by the Suvorovets rescue vessel, another naval rescuer arrived in the atlas, atlas, the Vladivostok rescue and coordination center said.
The Atlas has the task of ensuring the environmental safety of the refrigerator, the plans of Suvorovtsa - to tow “Irina” to Vladivostok. Rescuers from Suvorovts began to start ends to start a towing, but a strong wind creating a swell on the water complicates the work. Atlas conducts an inspection of the area. After that, taking into account the weather conditions, a decision will be made on further actions against Irina, Interfax told in the Sakhalin basin emergency rescue department.
In addition to the cargo, there are 150 tons of oil products on the emergency refrigerator. The Suvorovets did not find them. They are hermetically closed in containers. The threat to the environment, according to specialists of the marine rescue and coordination reporter (SKC) of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, is unlikely.
His duty captain said that the machine department was completely flooded on Irina. “According to preliminary information, the water into the department went through the oil seals due to the fact that the refrigerator, when maneuver, touched the fodder tip of the soil. At the same time, the steering was out of order,” he explained.
The refrigerator followed from the region of Lova in the Sea of Okhotsk to Vladivostok when he found a storm. When turning, the ship touched the soil with a screw, the engine stalled on it, water began to flow into the engine room. The wind led the ship to the roll from three to ten degrees.
Irina Captain Boris Clipac decided to evacuate the crew consisting of 19 people - all citizens of Russia. The distress signal was supplied on January 4 at 04:20 local time (21:20 Tuesday in Moscow) another transport refrigerator - Tatarstan, located at a distance of about one and a half kilometers from the emergency vessel, came to the rescue. "Tatarstan" accepted the entire crew of this transport on its board. There are no victims.
According to RIA Novosti, refrigerator Irina belongs to Brig Star Shipping from Vladivostok. Its length is 92 meters, displacement is 5.8 thousand tons. Earlier it was reported that the ship was built in Japan in 1982. Until 2010, it was called "Vega", and the owner was called the company Pantex Trading Ltd, registered in Cyprus.