"How a growing naval mine threat upsets the Royal Navy" Topic

"It happened just before midnight on 3 October. The Aframax transport tanker Syra is sailing quietly along the Yemeni shores near the Bir Ali crude offshore single point mooring station, some 30km west of the industrial port town of Balhaf when the unthinkable happens. The 100,000 tonne and 228.6m long crude oil tanker hits a sea mine that blows a giant hole into the ship's hull. What happens next isn't clear, but when E&T reviewed Planet Inc. satellite images for a day later, a large oil spill is visible. By then the ship had continued at least 100km throughout the Gulf of Aden (see map).

Intelligence sources told E&T that the incident was likely to be a symptom of tensions involving the separatist Southern Transitional Council, a secessionist body in Yemen. The tension didn't subside and October 25, a subsequent attack on an oil pipeline was carried out, spilling oil on land near where Syra was damaged. More commercial tankers could have suffered similar fates this year. North of the important shipping route Bab el Mandeb Strait, three naval mines were destroyed only one kilometre offshore, near the major Yemeni port city of Al Hudaydah…"

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