At the port of Bandirma in Turkey, two sailors perished in a confined-space accident on Friday while working onboard a cargo. The Russian freighter Navis 2 arrived in Bandirma on August 21 with a cargo of five thousand tons of animal feed, and on Friday, she moved to a dock in the inner harbor to offload. On that day, word reached the coast guard command center in the area that two men had been poisoned by gas that had built up in one of the cargo holds of the ship. To rescue the two workers’ remains, a specialized chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) reaction team was sent to the location. Dmitrii Mochalov (age 52) and Konstantine Martynov (age 46)—both Russian citizens—were named as the victims. They were brought to the local morgue with their corpses for an.
A recurring risk for seafarers is confined space accidents, which often result in several fatalities in a single incident. What makes confined space tragedies so tragic is that the dangers of poison gas or dangerously low oxygen might be unnoticeable. Too often, a second or third crew member will witness an unconscious shipmate in a hold, enter there to aid them, and end up dying the same way. Over 300 people have died in confined space accidents since 1996, with 31 of the deaths occurring in 2023, according to InterManager. Russian-flagged coastal freighter Navis-2 was constructed in 2019. She made frequent port calls at locations in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, according to AIS data supplied by Pole Star. As is customary in trade.
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