- IMO
- 8912792
- Call Sign
- 3EUV9
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- TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinorJul 23, 2010LAKE ONTARIO, ON, ONTARIO (ON)
On 23 July 2010, while proceeding upbound toward Hamilton, Ontario on Lake Ontario, the general cargo vessel "ARCTIC SEA" suffered repeated generator breakdowns. Vessel to be inspected by TCMS and SLSA prior to leaving Hamilton.
Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.
Composite Risk
Risk Score
Strong, corroborated adverse evidence — a detention, sanctions exposure or a dark-fleet signal.
A coverage-weighted blend of the 2 components we could read for this hull — the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.
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Capacity & Classification
Other · summer draught 5.58 m · 13.2 t per cm immersion
Estimate only — modelled from deadweight (deadweight only) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.
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About This Vessel
MV Arctic Sea is a cargo ship formerly registered in Malta that was reported missing between late July and mid-August 2009 en route from Finland to Algeria, crewed by Russian sailors and declared to be carrying a cargo of timber. Hijackers allegedly boarded the ship off the coast of Sweden on 24 July 2009. The incident was not immediately reported, and contact with the ship was lost on or after 30 July. The Arctic Sea did not arrive at its scheduled port in Algeria and was reportedly located near Cape Verde instead on 14 August. On 17 August, it was seized by the Russian Navy. An investigation into the incident was started amidst speculation regarding the ship's actual cargo, and there were allegations of a cover-up by Russian authorities. The Arctic Sea was towed into harbor in the Maltese capital of Valletta on 29 October 2009. The ship's alleged hijacking and subsequent events have remained difficult to understand, as no credible explanation has been presented of its disappearance and Russian authorities' conduct during and after the ship's capture. If confirmed to be an act of piracy, the hijacking of Arctic Sea would be the first known of its kind in Northern European waters for centuries. The Russian court found all of the alleged hijackers to be guilty of piracy, but this has not led commentators to be any "closer to knowing what actually happened".
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