Captain Claims Bulker’s Anchor System Was Sabotaged by Russians

The head of Bulgarian shipping company Navibulgar maintains that the bulker Vezhen accidentally “leaked” anchor chain out past the chain stopper in rough weather, and that any damage that the vessel may have inflicted to a subsea cable between Gotland and Latvia was not an act of sabotage. Another mariner, “long distance” Captain Donyo Dachev, had a different perspective: he told Bulgarian outlet Fakti that there is as of yet no proof that the Vezhen was involved at all, and that if it was, its anchor system could have been sabotaged by Russians during the previous port call. 

“In the Russian port [Ust-Luga], there were all possibilities for malicious actions to be committed. When loading, there is no one from the crew who is constantly standing on the deck, but there is always a person from the Russian side who manages the loading,” Capt. Dachev told Fakti. “The Bulga…