Turkey’s Directorate General of Coastal Safety reported that site visitors on the strategic Dardanelles Strait was briefly suspended throughout the response to an engine room fireplace on a bulker. The AK Discovery (7,500 dwt) was inbound to the Black Sea and the Bulgarian port of Varna when she reported a hearth aboard.

The vessel in-built 2001 is registered in Barbados and was coming from Egypt. She is owned and managed from Greece.

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The fireplace was believed to have begun within the engine room. Smoke might be seen coming from the 352-foot (107.5-meter) vessel which was stopped within the essential waterway.

Bulker drifting within the Dardanelles brought about the authorities to droop site visitors in each instructions (KEGM)

The Turkish authorities reported that two rescue boats, a quick response vessel, and a pilot boat had been all dispatched to the disabled bulker. Images present the rescue boats spraying water on the funnel and stern space of the vessel. The fireplace was later reported extinguished whereas the rescue boats continued to chill the realm of the ship. 

Once it was decided protected, Rescue-13 was assigned to tow the bulker right into a protected anchorage. Traffic was then resumed on the Dardanelles.

The Turkish Coast Guard is investigating the origins of the hearth and to make sure the security of the waterway. The AK Discovery had been cited throughout a Port State Inspection in Egypt at first of April for points with its auxiliary engine which was deemed to be “not as required.” The vessel, nevertheless, was not detained throughout the inspection.