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Patris still stuck
Two ice breakers were deployed to the "Patris" which was still frozen in ice on Dec 19. The crew of 11 was safe on board. The ship got stuck enroute from Astrakhan to Enzeli.
Grounding in ice flows
The "Patris" ran aground on the Volga–Caspian Sea Canal at km mark 50.5 on Dec 15, 2016, at 09.45 a.m. while passing a one-way fairway leg in floating ice. The vessel, being loaded with 2800 tons of corn, was destined for Enzeli. It was pushed out of the fairway by the ice flows and got into shallows. In the morning of Dec 17, vessel was still aground, awaiting the owner’s salvage contract. The cebreaker "Kapitan Bukaov" was on standby near the grounding site.
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