H I Sutton just posted about this ship: it was carrying big loading cranes and most likely was going for Libya to setup new facilities. Which makes it even better as this would screw their schedule.
Just a note. It's planned route was not to Tartus, but through the Suez canal. It is a well known ship for carrying Russian arms (formally called Sparta III) and it was carrying cranes, suspected to be for Libya, north Africa, So it possibly was full of arms and munitions
The ship departed from St. Petersburg on 11. December. And to place to huge mobile harbor cranes on the deck is not an issue of a few hours. Thus any relation to later events in Syria is rather unlikely.
Those russians are so environmentally conscious. What brilliant people. But let’s not forget Ukraine, which assisted in the creation of many of these reefs.
Putin wants Russian domination and presence world wide. He is creating a Russian submarine fleet in every sea in the world. His secret weapon is lack of maintainance.
We here in Ireland wish you a lovely Christmas time and may you enjoy a happy and succsessful New Year! Thank you for all the work you put in for the Ukrainians and the many laughs you regularly give us! All the best!!
Both the same God Really. I believe the Romans adapted the Greek Pantheon for there own use. So Poseidon became Neptune, Zeus became Jupiter, Aphrodite became Venus, ares becomes Mars and so on.
"this is what the ship looks like mow". LMAO Good thing I had just set my coffee down or I could have ruined my laptop. Top shelf Sucho. Slava Ukraine. Merry Christmas to you also.
The greatest threats to russian equipment, 1) Russian design of equipment 2) Russian manufacturing of equipment 3) Russian maintenance of equipment 4) Russians using equipment............. Anyone else see a pattern emerging here?
The equipment made them do it. The equipment was an existential threat to great & glorious Russia & her Most Handsome, Most Sagacious, Stronkest Leader ever.
I just watched a video from H I Sutton about this. He thinks the ship was more likely headed to eastern Libya, since it was carrying port-cranes at the time. He also mentioned an explosion in the engine room on the starboard side, the ship listing, and sinking north of Algeria. Just FYI. Edit: and happy holidays to all.
@andrewmcalister3462 It could be both. Even possibly incl. Tartus too? Unload cranes in Libya, pick up equipment in Syria, then continue to Vladivostok with mil. equipment and icebreaker parts?
The Brits did it. You know some old sea mine of WWII just floating around minding it's own business. With all the sabotage happening and even more we aren't learning of, well it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
H I Sutton posted a photo taken by the Portuguese navy as it passed towards the Straits of Gibraltar showing two large dock-type cranes on the deck. He surmised that since Tartus didn't need such items, perhaps they were destined for Tobruk or Beghazi to aid the transfer of military equipment into Libya.
For once I think H I Sutton and others are reading a bit too much into all this. The ship sailed from St. Petersburg on the 11th, just 3 days after Assad fell. That is nowhere long enough to procure and load such big items as the two cranes seen on the deck of MV Ursa Major. For once I would go with what the Russian sources are saying: the destination was Vladivostok and the cargo was for the yards there, building Icebreakers for Russia.
@@gamarus0kragh I agree that the listed destination might have been Vladivostok, and even had the cranes loaded prior to departure, perhaps even ultimately destined for Vladivostok, but this ship had been running weapons to Syria for three years (and was duly sanctioned) and would almost CERTAINLY have diverted from its planned route to help the evacuation, even leaving the cranes in Tartus if necessary. After all, what's a couple of cranes against the value of a bunch of tanks or air defence systems?
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@@bobjohnbowles yeah, in some ways a design flaw. Big open space with no watertight doors, often with unsecured cargos. What would be minor flooding in any other vessel can cause major problems in a ro-ro
@@u2bear377 Well, in this case we are talking about the logistics branch of the russian military. The Ursa Major was operated by a subsidiary of the russian defense company Oboronlogistika that is part of the military construction complex of the russian Ministry of Defense and specializes in providing the ministry with transport, storage and production services for military and special goods.
What a coincidence! So many coincidences these days! It must be very hard to maintain security on massive cargo ships and the SBU is doing an amazing job. They don’t want that stuff going back to Russia.
H. I. Sutton has a video up. It has a still photo of the ship listing badly to starboard. There are a couple of cranes destined for a port up on deck, making it pretty top heavy. He reports the ship experienced an explosion in the engine room on the starboard side.
Ursa Major was carrying two large lattice-boom crawler cranes as deck cargo. They were a type perfectly suited for loading vessels and would have been useful in Tartus.
@@nodularification Tartus has its own cranes. These are specialised cranes, organised well in advanced. Also had 2 reactor shields/covers for nuclear powered icebreakers. Again very specialised cargo. Looks like it really was headed for Vladivostok, although rerouted to sea floor now.
Thank you, Suchomimus, for this excellent analysis and all that you do for Ukraine. Merry Bonkmas to you and Muffin! 🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
🎀Merry Christmas🎄and thanks for all your work in 2024, Sucho. I figure I watched 10 of your videos a week, and at a few minutes apiece that's all the waking hours in around two days! I can't help sort of feeling like I know you now.😄
According Oliver Alexander: The Ursa Major was heading to Vladivostok and not en route to aid in the evacuation of Tartus. Given cargo it carried, this is in fact even worse for Russia than if it had been heading to Tartus. The Ursa was carrying two Liebherr 420 mobile cranes for the harbor in Vladivostok that is heavily backed up due to a lack of cranes and two 45-ton hatches for the construction of the new Project 10510 nuclear powered icebreaker. The loss of these cranes will severely hurt loading/unloading times in Vladivostok.
One thing that I don't understand. If the Russians were sending the cranes from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, why didn't they dismantle the cranes and send them by rail? It would be a lot quicker.
REALLY GOOD DETAILED ACCOUNT of this vessel's history, cargo, destination and demise on the Whats Going on With Shipping channel... it was clearly an accident waiting to happen, reflecting massive neglect and incompetence on the part of the owners and operators!
Merry Christmas Sucho & Muffin (and the rest of the family) thanks for all the hard work and info this year, keep it up. Mansfield’s loss is Taiwan’s gain. 🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
Happy New Year Suchomimus. Thank you for posting such good content this year. I have a good time reading the comments on this channel and I always learn something new.
For a minute there I thought this was ship number 4 to go down in the last couple of weeks. Merry Christmas Suchomimus and every one of your channel members. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🔱💪👏🚜🌻🍉✊🤙
Happy Christmas Sucho, thanks so much for all the updates and fundraisers you have done over the past year. Lets hope in 2025 they will no longer be needed - Slava Ukraini
“And this is what the Ursa Major looks like now.” Brilliant!
to be more specific: have a look at 2:07 for the actual look
Good photo 📸
Sucho's comments are tops. He manages to make this bloody mess amusing! 😄
Had to laugh out loud- Thank you so very much !
It’s like one of those reCAPTCHAs where you have to pick all the squares with Ursa Major in them
It hasn't sunk, it is merely making a delivery of supplies to the Russian fleet.
Lmao
Haha genius 😂
Stopping at the Moskva first, apparently.
@@NorthForkFisherman no, somewhere there once sunk a rashist submarine
huehuehuehue
I think Putin's got a sinking feeling.
You lost that floatin' feelin'
Whoa, that floatin' feelin'
You lost that floatin' feelin'
Now it's sunk, sunk, sunk, whoa, whoa, whoa
🥁 _ba DAP bum pisssh!_ 😂
They will not dare to tell him
badoomp crash!
Putin is also experiencing shortness of breath.
From that last shot, I can see that the Ura Major bears a striking resemblance to the cruiser Moskva.
Lol
@@Bytesplice Yep, only much deeper than the 100 meter depth the Moskva is at now..... likely it's well over a kilometer down.
So you are telling me the Russians have figured out a way to camouflage ships to look like open sea? Like they aren’t even there? Brilliant!
Obviously they are in cahoots with the Romulans.
The Russian fleet has a long-standing tradition of being the best like that, since times immemorial
H I Sutton just posted about this ship: it was carrying big loading cranes and most likely was going for Libya to setup new facilities. Which makes it even better as this would screw their schedule.
Yeah i saw that too. But i'm wondering what else they had on board....perhaps we will never know.
2 big Liebherr cranes and 2 big parts for building a nuclear class icebreaker. Heading to Vladivostok.
@@forestdweller5581lithium got wet
came here to say this
@@l.d.t.6327well, not anymore. It's becoming an artificial reef 😂
British humor, served extra dry. Love it
Just a note. It's planned route was not to Tartus, but through the Suez canal.
It is a well known ship for carrying Russian arms (formally called Sparta III) and it was carrying cranes, suspected to be for Libya, north Africa,
So it possibly was full of arms and munitions
The ship departed from St. Petersburg on 11. December. And to place to huge mobile harbor cranes on the deck is not an issue of a few hours. Thus any relation to later events in Syria is rather unlikely.
@ajc5479 guess it took a detour to tartarus
@@ArminiusGroß I see what you did there :)
Given reports of an explosion on board that caused significant damage, what you say makes a lot of sense...
@@ArminiusGroß Very good! 😂
Russia must be commended for the number of artificial reefs it is creating
Nice and deep there... won't be getting anything from THAT one. Early Xmas present for Ukraine!
Of course the refs would be far more agreeable to marine life if they were not covered in crude oil.
Maybe it will make up for those oil slicks they're creating.. 😅
Those russians are so environmentally conscious. What brilliant people. But let’s not forget Ukraine, which assisted in the creation of many of these reefs.
Putin wants Russian domination and presence world wide. He is creating a Russian submarine fleet in every sea in the world. His secret weapon is lack of maintainance.
It’s nice that Russia donated a new reef for Christmas.
Russia had been misbehaving this year, so it gets 'coal' from Santa.
Looks more like they're making a land connection between Spain and Marocco.
Merry Christmas succo, Slava Ukraine, thanks for all the work you put in. 🇺🇦🇬🇧👍
Ursa Major has become Ursa Minor...
More a callorhinus ursinus
It must be very hard to maintain security on massive cargo ships and the SBU is doing an amazing job. They don’t want that stuff going back to Russia.
I would also have accepted "Ur-sub Marine"
😂
Ursa Blub Blub
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Cheers. Happy Christmas and thanks for watching the videos
@@suchomimus9921 Happy Christmas to you and to Muffin! Please give Muffin a Christmas treat, she works hard!
@@suchomimus9921
Merry Christmas
This was a Christmas gift for all the good little boys and girls of Ukraine -- Slava Santa! 🎅
Me thinks that even Poseidon is against Putin. Excellent!!!
_Neptune_ surely is. ;)
What is Poseidon's traditional weapon? What is the emblem of the Armed Forces of Ukraine? I think I see a connection!
@@alexandermonro6768 Exactly😂😂😂
@@u2bear377 Depends on whether you prefer Roman mythology to Greek. Me, I prefer Greek. 🙂
Both the same God Really. I believe the Romans adapted the Greek Pantheon for there own use. So Poseidon became Neptune, Zeus became Jupiter, Aphrodite became Venus, ares becomes Mars and so on.
"this is what the ship looks like mow". LMAO Good thing I had just set my coffee down or I could have ruined my laptop. Top shelf Sucho. Slava Ukraine. Merry Christmas to you also.
The greatest threats to russian equipment, 1) Russian design of equipment 2) Russian manufacturing of equipment 3) Russian maintenance of equipment 4) Russians using equipment............. Anyone else see a pattern emerging here?
Da. It's the equipment's fault! 🤣
a defect ruzzian DNA pattern, it is genetical rashists
The equipment made them do it. The equipment was an existential threat to great & glorious Russia & her Most Handsome, Most Sagacious, Stronkest Leader ever.
There's no troll quite like a Brit! "This is a current picture of the Ursa Major" and it's open blue seas - LOVE IT!!!
Glory to Ukraine!
I just watched a video from H I Sutton about this. He thinks the ship was more likely headed to eastern Libya, since it was carrying port-cranes at the time. He also mentioned an explosion in the engine room on the starboard side, the ship listing, and sinking north of Algeria. Just FYI.
Edit: and happy holidays to all.
Interesting! I'll have to check that video out.
@@mspicer3262 Sal on the What’s Going On With Shipping channel has a better explanation - looks like the cargo really was heading to Vladivostok.
@andrewmcalister3462 It could be both. Even possibly incl. Tartus too? Unload cranes in Libya, pick up equipment in Syria, then continue to Vladivostok with mil. equipment and icebreaker parts?
Merry christmas everyboby. Sucho's humor allways the best,love it!!
Merry Christmas Sir, and bless all the Ukrainian people.
Slava Ukraini 🌻🇺🇦🌻🇺🇦🌻
Glory
to
Ukrainians weren’t and aren’t blessed. Unless your gods on Putin’s side.
I'm still waiting for the Z-propagandists shouting "the British did it" 😂😂😂😂😂
Oh yes. You can guarantee they will say it was us, then Medvedev will threaten to use Nukes, again🥱.
I thought of Medvedev threatening to nuke the island in 7 minutes.
Maybe we finally found a use for the Semtex seized from the IRA near Gibraltar or maybe the Ukrainians have been repurposing jet skis in the area.
the British did it
The Brits did it. You know some old sea mine of WWII just floating around minding it's own business.
With all the sabotage happening and even more we aren't learning of, well it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
2:05 A giocondian smile of general Budanov was barely noticeable just for a moment on this calm water surface.
Budanov can probably take a day off. russian ships are perfectly capable of sinking themselves without help from the outside.
H I Sutton posted a photo taken by the Portuguese navy as it passed towards the Straits of Gibraltar showing two large dock-type cranes on the deck.
He surmised that since Tartus didn't need such items, perhaps they were destined for Tobruk or Beghazi to aid the transfer of military equipment into Libya.
For once I think H I Sutton and others are reading a bit too much into all this.
The ship sailed from St. Petersburg on the 11th, just 3 days after Assad fell. That is nowhere long enough to procure and load such big items as the two cranes seen on the deck of MV Ursa Major. For once I would go with what the Russian sources are saying: the destination was Vladivostok and the cargo was for the yards there, building Icebreakers for Russia.
@@gamarus0kragh they knew the equipment needed to be rescued days before Assad was defeated.
@@gamarus0kragh I agree that the listed destination might have been Vladivostok, and even had the cranes loaded prior to departure, perhaps even ultimately destined for Vladivostok, but this ship had been running weapons to Syria for three years (and was duly sanctioned) and would almost CERTAINLY have diverted from its planned route to help the evacuation, even leaving the cranes in Tartus if necessary.
After all, what's a couple of cranes against the value of a bunch of tanks or air defence systems?
Love your reports.
🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦
It's Christmas morning where I am, and I'd like to wish all supporters of Ukraine a very merry Christmas.
Slava Ukraini.
Russia down on their luck these days. I guess that's what we'd call Karma.
Double post.... Veterans need your support. A smile, a wave, a box of food, and or a $20 + bill
SENDS A BETTER MESSAGE THEN HANGING A FLAG ONE DAY A YEAR ON VETERANS DAY.OR A HOLIDAY.
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This video is hysterical. Happy Christmas to you and the Ukranian people.
Every thing blessed by Putin gives me that sinking feeling..
I've seen photos in the news of the ship with a heavy list. The associated report indicated the ship had experienced an engine room explosion.
Nah' they were just _blowing_ their ballast tanks to dive.
"We are sinking! We are sinking!"
"Vat are you sinking about?" ok, is a german joke, but the situation reminds me that...
I remember a time when ro-ro ferries came to be known as ro-ro-ro ferries - roll-on, roll-off, roll-over.
@@bobjohnbowles yeah, in some ways a design flaw. Big open space with no watertight doors, often with unsecured cargos. What would be minor flooding in any other vessel can cause major problems in a ro-ro
The picture of the "after" cracked me up 😆
Merry Christmas everyone 💙💛
Merry Christmas to you Suchomimus ❤ and your animals as well of course
Cheers. Muffin has some treats as her present
@@suchomimus9921 nice I got my cat some fancy catnips from the UK called meowajuana lol
merry christmas sucho, been watching all your videos through the year, thank you for supporting ukraine 🇳🇴♥️🇺🇦
Excellent portrait of the lost ship!! ; )
Its an interesting life in the Russian Merchant Navy. :)
'Merchant Navy' is something about running parallel trade while in the Navy service.
@u2bear377 ?
In the UK, 'the merchant navy' is the term for civilian sailors, crewing cargo ships, ferries, etc..
@@u2bear377 Well, in this case we are talking about the logistics branch of the russian military. The Ursa Major was operated by a subsidiary of the russian defense company Oboronlogistika that is part of the military construction complex of the russian Ministry of Defense and specializes in providing the ministry with transport, storage and production services for military and special goods.
What a coincidence! So many coincidences these days! It must be very hard to maintain security on massive cargo ships and the SBU is doing an amazing job. They don’t want that stuff going back to Russia.
H. I. Sutton has a video up. It has a still photo of the ship listing badly to starboard. There are a couple of cranes destined for a port up on deck, making it pretty top heavy. He reports the ship experienced an explosion in the engine room on the starboard side.
It is all ok. They can evacuate from Syria using aquatic electric scooters.
😂😂😂😂
I think I hear the world's smallest balalaika playing a sad song.
Russia Mir, it become microroscosmos
You are right, I can hear it too 😂
Wow, now that you mentioned, I can hear it too! 😂
Good news!! Slava Ukraini!!
Happy Christmas &
Glory to Ukraine! 💙💛
Love the "this is what the Ursa Major looks like now" photo.
Lovely Christmas present. Another successful surface ship to submarine transformation. Russian technology never fails to impress.
I’m not an engineer but perhaps they could use the cranes they were carrying to lift themselves off the seabed.
Pulling themselves up by their boot straps ..
'Münchhausen' is not a Russian surname.
😂😂😂👍
@@balaclavabob001or boat straps?
Ursa Major was carrying two large lattice-boom crawler cranes as deck cargo. They were a type perfectly suited for loading vessels and would have been useful in Tartus.
@@nodularification Tartus has its own cranes.
These are specialised cranes, organised well in advanced. Also had 2 reactor shields/covers for nuclear powered icebreakers. Again very specialised cargo. Looks like it really was headed for Vladivostok, although rerouted to sea floor now.
Thank you, Suchomimus, for this excellent analysis and all that you do for Ukraine. Merry Bonkmas to you and Muffin!
🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
it has also been suggested that it was headed to Libya carrying two dock cranes to set up a new port base.
Let's just blame the elbonian submarine service for now and congratulate them with their newest 'acquisition'.
🎀Merry Christmas🎄and thanks for all your work in 2024, Sucho.
I figure I watched 10 of your videos a week, and at a few minutes apiece that's all the waking hours in around two days! I can't help sort of feeling like I know you now.😄
Another one reaches the bottom of the sea.
Maybe they were just doing a live action reenactment of 'Das Boot' and got carried away in the process.
@@u2bear377 Someone here remembering howe Putin presented the rf navy flag last week ? 😁
And a Happy Christmas to you and your family Such. Thanks for the posts, I particularly like the las photo of the ship!
Wow, they invented a invisibility cloak for their ships. Now you see it, now you don't.
Hopefully this will make them understand that dragging anchors across undersea cables is bad for business.
According Oliver Alexander:
The Ursa Major was heading to Vladivostok and not en route to aid in the evacuation of Tartus.
Given cargo it carried, this is in fact even worse for Russia than if it had been heading to Tartus.
The Ursa was carrying two Liebherr 420 mobile cranes for the harbor in Vladivostok that is heavily backed up due to a lack of cranes and two 45-ton hatches for the construction of the new Project 10510 nuclear powered icebreaker.
The loss of these cranes will severely hurt loading/unloading times in Vladivostok.
One thing that I don't understand. If the Russians were sending the cranes from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, why didn't they dismantle the cranes and send them by rail? It would be a lot quicker.
Then why was it traveling in the opposite direction, towards the Mediterranean Sea?
I think that this makes more sense than any other story which I've heard. 👍
@@nigelgarrett7970those hatches and cranes simply don’t fit on a train / can’t be transported over land.
@l.d.t.6327 The Liebherr 420 can be dismantled and transported by road. Passau, Bavaria, 2019.
Ursa Major, previously known as Sparta III has sunk.
They have fleet of such ships.
I am Sparta
I am Sparta
I am Sparta
...
REALLY GOOD DETAILED ACCOUNT of this vessel's history, cargo, destination and demise on the Whats Going on With Shipping channel... it was clearly an accident waiting to happen, reflecting massive neglect and incompetence on the part of the owners and operators!
Merry Christmas Sucho & Muffin (and the rest of the family) thanks for all the hard work and info this year, keep it up. Mansfield’s loss is Taiwan’s gain. 🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
There are videos out already. Thank you Suchomimus! Merry Christmas!
I love your sense oh humour. Merry Christmas From Ireland!🧑🎄
Aparently it had two large cranes on board as deck cargo!
yeassssssss! heeheheeeee!
You report it best.
Merry Xmas Suchomimus.
at this point in time it should be reclassified as Special Marine Rehabilitation Operations
The Russian ship Ogalog, It was called that because of the last known sound it made before disappearing.
Happy New Year Suchomimus. Thank you for posting such good content this year. I have a good time reading the comments on this channel and I always learn something new.
The "Big Dipper" goes for a dive.
I wouldn't want to be one of the guys getting picked up by that second ru vessel . Their odds of getting home just went from 50% to about 12% .
@@balaclavabob001 They were picked up by the Spanish coast guard.
They might have a fair claim for asylum. 😂
For a minute there I thought this was ship number 4 to go down in the last couple of weeks. Merry Christmas Suchomimus and every one of your channel members. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🔱💪👏🚜🌻🍉✊🤙
It IS ship number 4. Since Dec 1st, 3 tankers, a floating crane, and now the Ro-Ro. So 5 technically
From constellation to consternation in one easy step.
That's good news! A very Merry Christmas and a blessed new year to you.
a glourious operation by the portuguese navy
You have the most wicked humor. LOVE it. 😆 I bought your book: Atrociraptor, as Christmas present for my grandkids. thanks
Merry Christmas from under the sea!
Happy Christmas ❤ 🇬🇧
Interesting. Thank you for that Mr Sucho
Merry Christmas, Suchomimus. Slava Ukraine!!
And in the finest tradition of the Russian Navy😢😢
those damn torpedo boats again...
Happy Christmas, and thanks for all your work.
Seven words or more for the algorithm. Happy Christmas to all and Slava Ukraine ! 🇺🇦
Empty ocean picture. 😂😂😂
An ocean absent of Russia reminds us of how serene the world could be absent of Russia.
"This is what the Ursa Major looks like now". I appreciate your "dry" sense of humor.
They just wanted to see the rest of the Russian Navy...
Nice gift of Russian equipment to the Syrians.
Interesting report. Merry Christmas! 😊😊😊
The russian economy is really struggling to keep afloat.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS! Your greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Such thank for a year of updates !!!!!! DYAKUYU !!!!!
That is amazing camouflage paint on the Ursa Major, it looks just like the ocean!
Love your coverage always! Merry Christmas to you and everyone with love from the UK 🎄🎄🎄
Slava UkrainiMerry Christmas🎄
Hell, Russia should just blame Poseidon at this point…
The iconic weapon of Poseidon is the trident, so.... 🔱🔱🔱🔱
😂😂😂
Good news and good report !! 💪💪🇺🇦🇺🇦🫡🫡🇨🇦🇨🇦
Merry Christmas and have a happy new year Sucho. Thanks for all that you do. Cheers
if look closely, 2:00, before sinking Ursa Major path did show Ursa Major constellation
Happy Christmas Sucho, thanks so much for all the updates and fundraisers you have done over the past year. Lets hope in 2025 they will no longer be needed - Slava Ukraini
It's a Christmas Miracle
Very touching message from the ukrainian soldier