REGISTERED NURSESViktor Leonov Photo: Russian Navy/ Northern Fleet

The UNITED STATE Coast Guard looks out sailors to the feasible visibility of a Russian monitoring ship that has actually been performing hazardous procedures off the southeastern coastline of United States.

According to a Marine Safety Information Bulletin provided by USCG Sector Charleston on Monday, the Coast Guard has actually obtained records suggesting that the Russian Navy’s Viktor Leonov (AGI-175) has actually been off the coastline of South Carolina as well as Georgia “operating in an unsafe manner,” consisting of “not energizing running lights while in reduced visibility conditions, not responding to hails by commercial vessels attempting to coordinate safe passage and other erratic movements,” the notice stated.

Vessels transiting these waters ought to keep a sharp hunt as well as make use of severe care when browsing near the vessel, as well as sailors ought to make records of any type of hazardous circumstances to the United States Coast Guard, the notice included.

The Viktor Leonov belongs to the Russian Northern Fleet’s V ishnya-class of intelligence-gathering ships. The vessel has actually formerly been reported off the coastline of Connecticut in 2017 as well as off the coastline of Virginia as well as Delaware in 2014 as well as 2015.