Scotland #8 >>18563495

25 Injured as Research Vessel Tips Over in Dry Dock

Reuters March 22, 2023

Decorated research vessel formerly owned by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen tips over in dry dock, injuring 25. The vessel was purchased by the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in 2022.

LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) – Twenty-five people were injured when a ship came off its holding and tippedon its side in a dry dock in Leith, Scotland on Wednesday,the Scottish Ambulance Service said, with 15 taken to hospital.

Ten people were treated and discharged at the scene, the emergency service added in a statement.

Pictures posted on Twitter showed a large ship propped up against the wall of a dry dock. A local councillor posting on the social media site said strong winds had caused the incident.

Scottish medical authorities at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, which received 11 patients, urged people not to attend its accident and emergency department as it would be busy dealing with the victims of the incident.

Five ambulances, an air ambulance, three trauma teams and other specialist responders had earlier attended the scene after the accident took place at about 0830 GMT.

Edinburgh Police said a boat had become dislodged from its holding at Imperial Dock in Leith, near Edinburgh.

https://gcaptain.com/25-injured-as-research-vessel-tips-over-in-dry-dock/

Pic: View of the research vessel Petrel after it toppled over in a dry dock in Leith, near Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

>>18563618

The competition between Estate Sales will be impressive

>>18563654

Ya don't say

>>18563657

BBC carrying story as well

Ukraine war: UK defends sending depleted uranium shells after Putin warning

By Laura Gozzi BBC News 21 March 2023

President Vladimir Putin has said Russia would be "forced to react" if the UK sent shells made with depleted uranium to Ukraine.

He accused the West of deploying weapons with a "nuclear component".

The UK confirmed it would provide Kyiv the armour-piercing rounds alongside Challenger 2 tanks - but insisted they have a low risk of radiation.

Depleted uranium "is a standard component and has nothing to do with nuclear weapons", the MoD said.

"The British Army has used depleted uranium in its armour piercing shells for decades," the statement added.

"Russia knows this, but is deliberately trying to disinform. Independent research by scientists from groups such as the Royal Society has assessed that any impact to personal health and the environment from the use of depleted uranium munitions is likely to be low."

Former British Army tank commander - and chemical weapons expert - Col Hamish de Breton-Gordon, said Mr Putin's comments were "classic disinformation".

He said depleted uranium rounds used by Challenger 2 tanks contained only trace elements of depleted uranium.

He added it was "laughable" to suggest depleted uranium rounds were in any way linked to nuclear weapons, which uses enriched uranium.

Depleted uranium is what is left over after natural uranium has been enriched, either for weapons-making or for reactor fuel.

It is mildly radioactive in its solid form. But it is a very heavy substance, 1.7 times denser than lead, and it is used to harden rounds so that they can penetrate armour and steel.

When a weapon made with a depleted uranium tip or core strikes a solid object, like the side of a tank, it goes straight through it and then erupts in a burning cloud of vapour.

The vapour settles as dust, which is poisonous and also weakly radioactive.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said sending depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine would mean the UK was "ready to violate international humanitarian law as in 1999 in Yugoslavia".

"There is no doubt this will end badly for London," Mr Lavrov added.

On Tuesday evening, a spokesman for the Pentagon said the US would not be sending any munitions with depleted uranium to Ukraine.

Shells with depleted uranium were used in Iraq and the Balkans, where some claim it was linked to birth defects.

A 2022 UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report said depleted uranium was an environmental concern in Ukraine.

"Depleted uranium and toxic substances in common explosives can cause skin irritation, kidney failure and increase the risks of cancer," it said.

"The chemical toxicity of depleted uranium is considered a more significant issue than the possible impacts of its radioactivity," it added.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65032671

>>18563825

And the petroleum poisoning from the burning oil wells, and who knows what was really in all those "vaccines" they were injected with prior to deploying over there during Desert Shield

(I talk to fellow vets a great deal)

>>18563844

It's methane fueled? Powered by farts?

Cow farts or beer farts?

>>18563898

"anomaly" with second stage, possible premature shut down, will not achieve orbit

>>18563933

Thing comes down near one of these ships I have satellite tracks on, somebody is gonna shit

>>18563977

It's alright Mr. Pig, Bessie is making them some more methane

>>18564119

And now for something completely different

>>18564160

Would have to be coming close enough to the destroyer to cause collision, or overflight by multiple aircraft.

>>18564064

Confirmed, Reuters just sent it out as well. Will take the maritime sites awhile to catch up

China's military says US warship illegally entered waters in South China Sea

Reuters March 23, 2023

BEIJING, March 23 (Reuters) - China's military said on Thursday it monitored and drove away a U.S. destroyer that had illegally entered waters around the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.

In a statement, the military said without the approval of the government, the guided-missile destroyer Milius illegally intruded into China's territorial waters, undermining peace and stability in the busy waterway.

"The theater forces will maintain a high state of alert at all times and take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security and peace and stability in the South China Sea," said Tian Junli, a spokesman for China's Southern Theatre Command.

Tension between the United States and China has been growing in the area.

The United States has been shoring up alliances in the Asia-Pacific seeking to counter China's assertiveness in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing seeks to advance its territorial claims.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-military-says-us-warship-illegally-entered-waters-south-china-sea-2023-03-23/

>>18564218 (me)

USS MILIUS (DDG-69)

19th Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer

Keel Laid - August 1993

Commissioned - November 23, 1996; Location: Pascagoula, MS

https://www.surfpac.navy.mil/Ships/USS-Milius-DDG-69/About/

Looks like present homeport is Yokosuka, Japan