Cofferdams will be installed over the wrecks of tankers sunk in the Black Sea

Cofferdams (special metal domes) will be installed to pump out the remaining fuel oil from tankers sunk in the Black Sea. This was announced on August 15 by the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Andrey Nikitin.

"Our ship hulls today have the geometry that will allow us to install so-called cofferdams and isolate vessels for the subsequent pumping of residual fuel oil around them. The cofferdams are almost ready. The weight of these products is more than 1.5 thousand tons. These are absolutely unique engineering structures that have never been manufactured in the world," he said.

According to him, a complex underwater operation was carried out to form the desired geometry, as a result of which more than 200 m of interfering metal were cut off. In the near future, they will be taken to the tanker wreck site and lowered to the bottom.

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On May 19, the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar Territory reported that small emissions of fuel oil were detected on the Anapa coast after the tanker crash in the Kerch Strait.

Tankers Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, 2024 due to bad weather. The incident caused a spill of petroleum products. 27 people were evacuated from both ships, one person died. On behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a working group was set up to coordinate work to eliminate the consequences of the emergency.

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