This is a much more detailed look at the sinking of the Ursa Major, including how the vessel sunk and what it was doing at the time of the sinking.

An explosion in the engine room apparently, and she sunk stern first, indicating there was a lot of water coming into that area of the ship.

  • ladicius@lemmy.world
    15·
    4 days ago

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Or by incompetence. Or by neglect. Or by corruption. Or by vodka.

    • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
      7·
      4 days ago

      All those things existed before. Perhaps something changed in their ship maintaining routine to cut costs.

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        I’d like to highlight the Admiral Kuznetsov. Here’s my personal favorite from the wiki page

        On 30 October 2018, the ship was damaged when Russia’s biggest floating drydock, PD-50, sank, causing one of its 70-ton cranes to crash onto the ship’s flight deck, leaving behind a 19-square-metre (200 sq ft) hole. One person was reported missing and four were injured as the drydock sank in Kola Bay. The ship was in the process of being removed from the dock when the incident occurred and was towed to a nearby yard after the incident.[11] The cost of repairing the damage was estimated to be RUB 70 million (about US$1 million).[75] The fallen crane was removed by the end of 2018.