Webcam at the sunken tanker «Delfi», Odessa

Webcam at the sunken tanker «Delfi», Odessa

Live webcam is located near the sunken tanker «Delfi» in Odessa. With the help of this camera it is possible in real time to observe the progress of the operation of lifting and towing the small tanker «Delfi», which sank in the Black Sea near the Odessa beach «Dolphin». The tanker was wrecked on the night of November 21-22, 2019. As a result of the flooding, a leak of oil products occurred from the vessel.

Delfi is a bunkering tanker flying the flag of Moldova, registered in the port of Giurgiulesti and owned by the British shipping company Mister Drake PC.

The vessel was laid down in 1974 at the Ivan Dimitrov shipyard in the Bulgarian city of Ruse. Has been in operation since 1977. At first it was run by the Black Sea Shipping Company under the name «Pyalitsa». After the collapse of the USSR in 1992, the tanker was transferred to the balance of the Ilyichevsk seaport and flew under the Ukrainian flag. As a result of privatization in 1997, the Odessa Tanker Company became the owner of the vessel, and the tanker was named Ecology. In 2003, the tanker changed its home port of Batumi, and the Ukrainian flag to the Georgian one. In the 2010s, the ship returned to Odessa and flew under the Maldives flag. In 2019, the British company from Birmingham, Atenia Holding Ltd., became the owner of the tanker, after which it was renamed Delphi. In turn, the ship received a residence permit in the Moldovan port of Giurgiulesti and began sailing under the Moldovan flag.

On the night of November 21-22, 2019, as a result of a storm, the Delphi tanker was unanchored in the water area of ​​the Yuzhny port and was carried towards Odessa. As a result of engine failure, the vessel drifted to Odessa, from the port of which the private tug «Australia» came to the rescue. During the night, the ship was accompanied by a tug and a rescue boat. Towards morning the tanker anchored near the Dolphin beach, but in the morning the vessel washed ashore, where it ran aground with three Ukrainian crew members on board. The shipowner did not allow the crew to leave the tanker, and the rescue operation was complicated by the storm. However, rescuers forcibly evacuated the crew from the vessel. As a result of the accident in the water area of ​​the place where the ship ran aground, it was found that water pollution by oil products was 53 times higher, however, according to preliminary data, there was no cargo on board the tanker at the time of the accident that could affect environmental pollution. Already in the evening of the same day, the concentration of oil products in the waters at the site of the accident was exceeded 90 times. Later it became known that the tanker's tanks contained fuel oil, which flowed out with fuel into the sea.

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