Comments by "Laird Cummings" (@lairdcummings9092) on "Ukraine Strikes Again! Volgograd Refinery in Flames!" video.

  1. Sailor here; Not being able to rescue the sailors is not a sure sign of incompetence. The bad facts of being a sailor often mean that you are far from rescue, and sea rescue is an extremely difficult operation that is nothing even remotely like ground evacuation. Hypothermia can kill VERY fast, and even if a rescue flight were launched instantly, by the time the rescuers reached the site, everyone would already be dead, given current Black Sea conditions. As for the crew escaping the vessel itself, well, it was subjected to numerous VERY violent explosions in close sequence; that destroys soft equipment like life rafts, and leaves the crew physically disoriented and disabled; very poor conditions for self-rescue. The ship sank very quickly, and would have trapped some crew, as well as taking life boats and rafts down with it. So - The loss of all hands is almost certainly due to the conditions of war at sea, rather than incompetence.
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