Breaking: UAE Oil Tanker attacked in Gulf of Oman

[Solomon2]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1139147936586186753

 

[925boy]

Why the earth Iran would do such a move which may bring her in a war?

To make enemies of Iran lose money also. THis is capitalist world order we are in. If Iran cant make $ from sanctions, why allow enemies do the same easily? It wont bring war, because Iran has correctly gauged that even the US doesnt want a war. US is hoping a show of power can push Iran back..and it will...for a short time..then what?

I suspect that someones wanna create a reason to attack Iran. Like pearl harbor, 9/11 incidents.

Maybe.

again?

Yes, so what are US and GCC going to do about it? they cant hit Iran financially anymore and RUssia and China wont support UN sanctions. Yes, its time for war, but we are seeing the best armed are the lowest motivated. back to business!

 

[Mr.NiceGuy]

Meanwhile Jews and emperyalists

 

[The SC]

Oil prices jumped 3% after this incident..

One tanker is Norwegian again..

 

[Solomon2]

Gulf of Oman tanker attacks: everything you need to know
by Tom Rogan
| June 13, 2019 09:48 AM

The apparent attack on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday represents a dramatic escalation in regional and international tensions. Coming just one month and one day after an attack on four other oil tankers in the same area, oil prices have spiked upward in fear of what might happen next.

What's going on here? Blame Iran.

The United Arab Emirates and Saudis might want a United States showdown with Iran but they would not risk jeopardizing the U.S. relationship by conducting a false flag attack. Moreover, the damage to the two tankers in this latest incident is suggestive of a torpedo attack: video shows at least one of the tankers on fire with waterline damage amidships. Iran has an array of means for such an attack, including attack submarines of various sizes, disguised fishing and passenger boats, and military fast boats.

Regardless, this attack fits comfortably with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps penchant for thinly deniable action. Suffering deep financial losses due to escalating U.S. sanctions, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps wants to pressure the international community into restraining the Trump administration's maximum pressure strategy. Iran will hope that this attack is sufficiently calibrated to avoid clear evidence of its culpability and thus avoid U.S. retaliation. In that, it is designed as a halfway measure between doing nothing and inviting U.S. retaliation by overtly attempting to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

But Iran's escalation should not be seen solely through the prism of this attack. Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has made veiled but apparent threats of Iranian resistance to the Trump administration's pressure. And an Iranian-enabled missile attack on Saudi Arabia this week illustrates that the Revolutionary Guards is escalating. This sits squarely within Iran's theocratic penchant for resistance against great odds (look up the Battle of Karbala).

The question is how the U.S. and its allies should respond.

The measure of this aggression will require some kind of significant response. Iran is now actively disrupting international oil markets and free passage of an arterial trade route. That cannot stand. But rightly neither is there much appetite in the U.S. or the region for a war.

I suspect what we will now see is a significantly increased naval presence by the U.S. and its allies to protect transit routes. Iranian forces and fishing vessels (due to the threat of disguised attacks) will likely be warned to keep distance from other vessels or face being sunk. We should expect them to test that warning, and for allied vessels to fire on them in response. Hopefully they will get the message and go back to port.

In terms of naval air-power, the U.S. currently has only an amphibious ready group in the area, so expect one of the carriers now in the Atlantic to be redeployed back to the Gulf.

 

[Kastor]

Iranians want a slap in arabian gulf

You're a first class fool, call the sky black and be done with it eh? No asking questions, probing, maybe using some logical reasoning that perhaps there maybe something more than meets the eye? Maybe some other actor is trying to coax the U.S. into action? Just maybe? Or the Iranians just torpedoed a Japanese vessel while the friendly PM of Japan was visiting our country? Sheesh...

Where is the Arabian gulf? I cant find it in my atlas!

 

[The SC]

"everything you need to know"
After a few hours!?

 

[Falcon29]

This is all because of Assassins Creed .... ;

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[The SC]

The US Navy said on Thursday that two oil tankers were damaged by an attack in the Sea of Oman.

The US Navy's Fifth Fleet said it was assisting two battered carriers in the Gulf of Oman, and Joshua Fry, a spokesman for the Fifth Fleet, said US naval forces in the area received two separate distress messages early on Thursday.

The news agency «Reuters» the bombing of an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, noting that the shipping companies have evacuated the crew of two oil tankers that had an incident in the Gulf.

An oil tanker caught fire after it was loaded with oil from Abu Dhabi before it sailed, an official at Fujairah port in the United Arab Emirates was quoted as saying by Bloomberg news agency.

One of the two damaged shipss on Thursday near the Strait of Hormuz had sailed from Saudi Arabia while the other sailed from the UAE, Bloomberg said.

"The carrier was damaged as a result of a suspected attack near the Strait of Hormuz," the agency quoted operator Cocoa Carides, which was sailing from Saudi Arabia to Singapore and carrying a shipment of methanol, as saying.

Bernhard Schulte said in a statement that the ship's structure had been breached from the water line on the right side and indicated that the crew of the 21-member crew, all Filipinos, was safe and only one was lightly injured.

The second carrier, Front Alter, sent a distress signal to the port of Fujairah in the UAE. It carried a shipment of oil in Abu Dhabi, according to data «Bloomberg». It is owned by Front Line in Norway and registered in the Marshall Islands.

A senior official at the state-run Taiwanese state-run CNPC said a tanker hired by the company to bring fuel from the Middle East had been attacked earlier on Thursday.

"The front-end carrier carried 75,000 tons of oil when it appeared to have been torpedoed," said Wu I-fang, head of the company's petrochemical division, told Reuters. All crew members were rescued.

According to the Norwegian Maritime Authority in a statement that the fire burning in the tank «Front Altair», while the relief teams arrived.

According to shipping data on «Revitalive Akon», Front Altair was seen for the last time in the Gulf of Oman off the coast of Iran after loading its cargo from Ruwais in the United Arab Emirates.

There is growing concern about the safety of ships and crews sailing across the Strait of Hormuz, the Intertanko Oil Tankers Association said.

"After two attacks on two ships this morning, I am very concerned about the safety of our crews across the Strait of Hormuz," Inter Milan chairman Paolo D'Amico said in a statement.

"We need to remember that about 30 percent of the world's (world-wide) crude oil is going through the straits. If maritime areas become unsafe, supplies to the entire Western world could be threatened," he said.

Interacto is the largest fleet of independent tankers in the world.

In turn, the Japanese government announced that two oil tankers linked to Japan were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz.

Trade Minister Hiroshij Seko told reporters that all crew members were safe and said they had all been evacuated, adding that Tokyo was still gathering information on the incident.

Britain expressed deep concern over reports of an attack on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

"We are very concerned about reports of explosions and fires on ships in the Strait of Hormuz," a British government spokeswoman said. "We are in contact with local authorities and partners in the region."

EU Foreign Minister Federica Mugherini called for avoiding "provocations" in the region after the attack on the two carriers.

"The region does not need new destabilizing and destabilizing reasons, and therefore the EU High Representative reiterates her call for maximum restraint and avoid any provocation," the spokeswoman said.

The Strait of Hormuz, at the entrance to the Gulf, is a vital waterway for the oil trade, with about 40% of the world's sea-transported oil passing through it.


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[Hack-Hook]

How you can detect that not like torpedo strike from that picture?!!!!

Torpedo strike damage ships under water , this ships are damaged at starboard .
you knew a torpedo for having maximum effect will not hit the ship , it will pass under the ship and then at the exact moment that it is under the ship it'll detonate and as a result produce a vacuum under the ship , the damage mainly is caused by that vacuum and shock-wave (the must dangerous form of damage)

The damage that may be caused by a torpedo depends on the "shock factor value", a combination of the initial strength of the explosion and of the distance between the target and the detonation. When taken in reference to ship hull plating, the term "hull shock factor" (HSF) is used, while keel damage is termed "keel shock factor" (KSF). If the explosion is directly underneath the keel, then HSF is equal to KSF, but explosions that are not directly underneath the ship will have a lower value of KSF.[48]

Direct damage
Usually only created by contact detonation, direct damage is a hole blown in the ship. Among the crew, fragmentation wounds are the most common form of damage. Flooding typically occurs in one or two main watertight compartments, which can sink smaller ships or disable larger ones.

Bubble jet effect
The bubble jet effect occurs when a mine or torpedo detonates in the water a short distance away from the targeted ship. The explosion creates a bubble in the water, and due to the difference in pressure, the bubble will collapse from the bottom. The bubble is buoyant, and so it rises towards the surface. If the bubble reaches the surface as it collapses, it can create a pillar of water that can go over a hundred meters into the air (a "columnar plume"). If conditions are right and the bubble collapses onto the ship's hull, the damage to the ship can be extremely serious; the collapsing bubble forms a high-energy jet that can break a metre-wide hole straight through the ship, flooding one or more compartments, and is capable of breaking smaller ships apart. The crew in the areas hit by the pillar are usually killed instantly. Other damage is usually limited.[48]

The Baengnyeong incident, in which ROKS Cheonan broke in half and sank off the coast South Korea in 2010, was caused by the bubble jet effect, according to an international investigation.[49][50]

Shock effect
If the torpedo detonates at a distance from the ship, and especially under the keel, the change in water pressure causes the ship to resonate. This is frequently the most deadly type of explosion, if it is strong enough. The whole ship is dangerously shaken and everything on board is tossed around. Engines rip from their beds, cables from their holders, etc. A badly shaken ship usually sinks quickly, with hundreds, or even thousands of small leaks all over the ship and no way to power the pumps. The crew fare no better, as the violent shaking tosses them around.[48] This shaking is powerful enough to cause disabling injury to knees and other joints in the body, particularly if the affected person stands on surfaces connected directly to the hull (such as steel decks).

 

[Falcon29]

Vs.

@undertakerwwefan

Need your help here.

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I think Iranians are trying to become like this again:

Have to admit these masks are pretty cool.

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[TheImmortal]

Which one? Definitely not you right?

Coz of the same mistake from the cold war and 2 massively corrupt regimes.

Lol your country is a begger country that accepted how many IMF bailouts? Also accepts Saudi Money. You should be grateful to that “evil” regime because they bankrolled your nuclear program and give you billions of dollars under the table.

Pakistan users here are even ungrateful to even their “allies” or “masters”. What a joke.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Lol your country is a begger country that accepted how many IMF bailouts? Also accepts Saudi Money. You should be grateful to that “evil” regime because they bankrolled your nuclear program and give you billions of dollars under the table.

Pakistan users here are even ungrateful to even their “allies” or “masters”. What a joke.

Let me see if I can give a fk about an iranian donkey living in USA.... far away from the land of milk, honey, manly women!

 

[B.K.N]

You should be grateful to that “evil” regime because they bankrolled your nuclear program and give you billions of dollars under the table.

Common Pakistanis are thankful to Saudi Arab for all this but there are some ungrateful pro Iran members at pdf

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

Nuke iran

The id*ot is at it again. He can't keep his mouth shut. I just wonder why the mods allow this wanker to post his nonsense.