{"id":165873,"date":"2025-01-29T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=165873"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:34:43","slug":"sweden-seizes-suspect-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=165873","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Seizes Suspect Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We talked about\u00a0 the underseas cables being cut to various Baltic allies, and mentioned the most recent, which was a partially severed cable between Fotland, Sweden, and Latvia.<\/p>\n

Swedish authorities have seized the Malta-flagged Vezhen, and have it anchored off the post of Karsrona.<\/p>\n

The Swedish Coast Guard confirmed to the newspaper Expressen that they were on site near the vessel which the paper identified as the Malta-flagged Vezhen, at anchor near the port of Karlskrona.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are directly on site with the seized ship and are taking measures as decided by the prosecutor,\u201d said Mattias Lindholm, spokesperson for the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n

According to data from Vesselfinder, the vessel departed from the Russian port of Ust-Luga several days earlier and was navigating between Gotland and Latvia at the time the damage was suspected of having occurred.\u00a0 AP News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you look at the picture above, you can see that the visible port side anchor is damaged.<\/p>\n

However, on Monday, Bulgarian shipping company Navigation Maritime Bulgare, which listed the Vezhen among its fleet, said one of the ship’s anchors dropped to sea floor in high winds and that there was no malicious intent.\u00a0\u00a0 BBC<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other reports say that the winds were actually 8 to 10 meters per second. Gale force winds start at 14 mps, and an online convertor says 10 mps is about 22 miles per hour. In Texas that’s a decent breeze, not a catastrophic storm, but I’ll leave it to our nautical friends to authoritatively comment.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, NATO began a new mission dubbed \u201cBaltic Sentry\u201d<\/span> which included frigates, maritime patrol aircraft and a fleet of naval drones to provide \u201cenhanced surveillance and deterrence\u201d in the Baltic Sea which the transatlantic alliance says is to protect undersea cables and pipelines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Best of luck with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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