The Amur border guard patrol vessel has run aground near the Iturup Island of the Kuriles chain. It was double anchored during a storm at the Kuibyshevskaya bay, but one on the anchor chains broke and the ship was thrown into rocks 50 metres from the shore.
The Amur ship got a hull breach on the starboard side. Nobody of the vessel’s crew was hurt. According to the border guards, the issue how to get the ship afloat is being considered, but the operation will be started only when the storm subsides. According to specialists, the Amur is “very tightly stuck” on the rocks.