It would seem that what can happen on the world's smallest, warm and calm Sea of ​​​​Azov? Alas, the tragedies of recent years, including the current swimming season, confirm that the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov, despite the external calm and grace, is fraught with a lot of mysteries and dangers.

Last year we talked about the tragedy that happened on the other side of the Azov coast, on the island of the Yeisk Spit. On the morning of July 7, 74 children and teenagers from the pioneer camp arrived on an excursion to the island. During the group's stay, children were allowed to swim near the shore. But because of the strong current, six children could not go ashore and drowned along with the teacher who tried to save them. To date, all the bodies of the dead have been identified - the teacher, three boys, aged 8, 9 and 11, and three girls aged 12, 16 and 9.

In the summer of the year before last, in the village of Yurievka, located fifty kilometers from Mariupol, a tragic incident also occurred. At a depth of only about a meter, twenty meters from the shore, a twelve-year-old boy almost drowned. Two adult, physically strong thirty-year-old guys who came to his aid were able to push the boy out of the water, but they themselves became victims of the deep sea.

It was nine o'clock in the morning, the adults were sober, relaxing on the beach with their families. How such a tragedy could happen is incomprehensible. The surviving boy says that he was playing with his uncle in the sea with a ball and suddenly the sand began to suddenly disappear from under his feet. He began to shout, his uncle rushed to the rescue, who walked away at that time for the ball that had flown off to the side. Uncle arrived in time, pushed the boy aground, but he began to sink. Seeing such a picture, another man rushed to the rescue. They and the rescuers who came to the rescue pulled the boy out of the water, but unknown sea forces pulled two adult men under the water.

What is the cause of these tragedies? Are they rare? Let's try to deal with these issues in order.

One of the most obvious causes of tragedies is sea currents and the whirlpools they cause. Yuryevka is located between two spits Belosaraiskaya and Berdyanskaya. When two currents meet in the Yalta Bay, a swirl of sea water is formed, which often leads to whirlpools. Fishermen say that sometimes the boats turn so that it is difficult to pull out. The locals do not remember the cases when the boats sank due to the whirlpool, in the worst case they were carried to the sea. That is, there is no need to talk about some huge whirlpools in Azov.

According to Andrei Kiyanenko, head of the recreation department of the Meotida Regional Landscape Park, currents and whirlpools are strong not only in the Yuryevka area, but especially at the ends of the Azov spits - on Belosaraiskaya, Berdyanskaya, Dolgaya, Sedov Spit, Yeisk Spit and others, unique in their its formation of the Azov braids. Tragic cases when people were carried away to the sea not only on air mattresses, but also without them happened before. Drowning on the scythes, even athletes who were quite prepared for high water.

So, exactly twenty years ago from the day of the tragedy in Yuryevka, on July 15, 1989, the crews of 9 ships of the city Young Sailors Club went to sea from Mariupol. After a twelve-day voyage, the Orion training ship, 2 motorboats and 4 boats returned, and two ships with seven adult crew members and five cadets had to sail further to make a circle around the Sea of ​​Azov with a call at Yeysk, Kerch and Berdyansk. At noon on July 28, the executive committee of the Mariupol City Council received the first alarming information: the ships were at the Dolgaya Spit, the crews were missing. An emergency commission of the city executive committee was created without delay. Vessels of the Azov Sea and Volga-Don River Shipping Companies, located in the waters of the sea, rescue vessels of the emergency rescue service of the Black Sea Fleet, rescue equipment of fishing collective farms of the Krasnodar Territory, military aircraft and helicopters, aviation of the traffic police of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Donetsk region were involved in the search for the missing.

On the evening of July 31, military pilots reported from Rostov-on-Don: in the area of ​​​​the village of Kamyshevatskaya, not far from Yeysk and the Dolgaya Spit, bodies were found washed ashore by waves. Soon - a new message: 5 more bodies were found. And only in the second half of the next day was the tenth dead crew member discovered. The surviving two passengers of the yacht - a boy of eight and a seventeen-year-old girl - did not clarify the course of events. When asked where the others were, they said they were asleep and saw nothing. At the dawn of perestroika, this mysterious case was discussed in the press for a long time and did not leave the lips of ordinary people. The culprit for the death of an entire team was considered by some to be UFOs, others as poachers, whose illegal fishing was allegedly witnessed by young sailors.

We will not comment on the first assumption ... The other is unlikely. If the poachers so easily destroyed ten young lads, then in those days they would have been found and simply drowned somewhere nearby. It is unlikely that anyone would have raised their hand to carry out such a blatant atrocity. It remains to look for the cause of a terrible riddle in the sea.

As the two survivors later said, they woke up at the same time in the middle of the night with a feeling of inexplicable anxiety. The sailors' clothes were scattered randomly on the deck. The depth in that place was negligible - the yacht was sitting aground, where the bottom is visible from any side. The yachtsmen with whom we spoke believe that the reason for the death of the guys could be strong sea currents running along the tip of the Dolgaya Spit, caused by a surge wave. Most likely, the guys climbed into the water to push the boat aground, fell into the current, the rest rushed to save them and were also carried into the sea one by one.

I would not like to turn to mysticism, but in all these accidents there are still several fatal coincidences and magical numbers. The boat, which, perhaps indirectly, caused the death of the crew in 1989, at that time it was called Arktos, after exactly 13 (!) Years, and, more incredibly, again on July 25, converted by this time into a yacht with a new name "Mariupol" drowned five passengers and sank herself. In the area of ​​​​the village of Melekino, she rolled vacationers. Despite the fact that it was designed for only 10 people, the captain took 38 passengers on board. From a small wave, one and a half kilometers from the shore, the yacht capsized. The ship rolled over on its side and slowly began to sink. Of the 38 passengers, 33 were rescued. Interestingly, after the tragedy, the yacht was lifted from the bottom by a floating crane of the Mariupol port, was stored in the port for about a year, and then taken out in an unknown direction, its further fate is unknown to us. Will it be restored and launched again? It is quite possible, although the yachtsmen with whom we spoke believe that such an unfortunate yacht still needs to be looked for and it would be best to simply destroy it, burn it, and scatter the ashes over the sea. But back to our main question.

Spit Dolgaya, if anyone does not know, is located on the opposite coast of the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov, on the territory of the Russian Federation. In the Soviet years, when there were no borders between our countries, Mariupol yachtsmen often sailed on the other side of the sea. If you look at the map of the Sea of ​​Azov, it is noticeable that the Dolgaya Spit is located almost directly opposite the Belosaraiskaya Spit. Thus, the flow of the water mass in this place passes as through the neck of a bottle and, accordingly, increases. With a surge wave caused by the western and southwestern winds, the sea level in the area of ​​the Taganrog Bay sometimes rises to two meters. When the winds weaken, the water rushes back, and in a rather swift stream.

A friend of the author of these lines has recently personally seen how dangerous the ends of the Azov spits can be - he saved a girl of about twelve years old at the tip of Belosaraika. While her parents were enthusiastically chatting on the shore, she ran aground about fifty meters from the shore, you can’t say otherwise - into the open sea, because at the tip of the spit the sea is almost from all sides. The depth for her growth was slightly above the waist, but at the same time she could not get out of the sea on her own. She managed to hit just at the junction of two currents, this was clearly indicated by the waves rolling on each other from different sides at an angle of about fifty degrees.

“At the beginning, she did not understand that things were wrong and calmly jumped on the waves, but then horror appeared on her face,” said a friend. — She tried to walk to the shore, and the sea dragged her back. Surely, in such an unequal struggle, her strength would have been enough for a short time, especially since physically the girl was clearly not an athlete. When I approached it, despite the relatively calm surface of the water, I felt a mighty river flowing along the bottom. The current was so strong that I could hardly stand on my feet. I was scared out of my mind. I told the girl to hold on to my hand, and so, step by step, we gradually got out into shallow water, and then onto the shore. If it were a little deeper, I would not have overcome the current ... ".

Such a force lives in the "gentle" Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov. The author of these lines, as an admirer of rest on the Belosarayskaya Spit, himself repeatedly tested the strength of this current. At the very end of the spit it is better not to swim at all, but before reaching its last point you can. The main thing is to stay no more than ten to fifteen meters from the shore at all times, and that the depth should not be above the waist. You can get interesting sensations. You just need to relax, lie on your back, and the current itself will carry you along the shore at about the speed of a person walking at a fast pace, - verified. Although such a strong current is not always the case. Such is the river in the sea - exotic! But this exotic would be good if it had not ruined so many people.

According to Andrei Kiyanenko, there are fewer cases of drowned people on spits than in other places only because the number of vacationers on them is much smaller. And on the Sedov Spit, the guards of the Meotida Landscape Park generally do not allow vacationers to the tip of the spit, they protect the bird nests. Things are worse on the Belosarskaya Spit. Every year more and more vacationers come here, to the tip of the spit, and many of them are not even aware of the danger that this beautiful place is fraught with.

But the tragedy that occurred in Yuryevka last year cannot be unambiguously blamed on sea currents. Firstly, near the shore at shallow depths, they are not strong enough to drag and drown two young physically strong men who can swim. Secondly, Yuryevka is located practically in the Yalta Bay and the currents here are extremely weak. For some reason, no such cases were noted in the neighboring villages of Yalta and Urzuf. Moreover, they were not there, not according to official data, but according to local residents, including Meotida employees. The most dangerous place, according to the Yuryevites, is located on the outskirts of Yuryevka, from the side of Urzuf, in an area with a self-explanatory name - Cape Serpentine.

He does not believe that the cause of the tragedy in Yuryevka was the currents and the head of the Mariupol public environmental organization "Clean Coast", a sailor and yachtsman Yulian Mikhailov.

“There is a muddy bottom there, almost a swamp, what strong currents can there be? - He asks a question. - I have been involved in yachting for many years, I know the sea like a native and, believe me, I have not seen even in the open sea, not to mention the Yalta Bay, funnels that can drag an adult who can swim a man under water. In sea directions (reference books for sailors) there is also no mention of strong currents in this area. I can only guess about the causes of natural anomalies in Yuryevka, but sea currents are not to blame for them.

Olga Shakula, head of the department of nature of the Mariupol Museum of Local Lore, agrees with the opinion of the yachtsman-ecologist. According to her, the reason lies rather in the fact that just in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bCape Zmeinny there is a global geological fault between bedrock slabs at a depth of about one kilometer. It crosses the entire Sea of ​​Azov and creates seismic activity in Crimea. In the course of geological movements, the plates overlap each other, crumble, and shift the upper soil layers. By the way, the output of fragments of these rocks appears on the surface in the ill-fated, widely known radioactive "black" sands, which are based on radioactive thorium. In addition to the release of sands, the geological instability of the area also contributes to massive movements of the upper part of the earth's surface, including leading to mudflows and landslides that occur not only on land, but also under the sea water layer.

According to Olga Shakula, it is possible that the cause of the tragedies in Yuryevka was precisely these features of the change in the state of the soil. Mudflows are a low-density solid mass composed of silt, clay and sand. This mass cannot support the weight of a person. Soil activity, faults and cracks also contribute to the formation of underground rivers. Where these waters wash out the bottom surface, dips form. Locals say that during the construction of one of the buildings of the boarding house in Yuryevka, during the driving of the first pile, it simply fell somewhere deep underground and the idea with piles had to be abandoned.

“Five years ago we rested in Yuryevka with the families and employees of our museum,” says Olga Shakula. “Our colleague almost drowned at a shallow depth, before our eyes she began to fall into the sand, screamed, we understood from her face that she was not joking, my husband would not have had time to swim, and therefore threw her a children's inflatable ring. Everything happened in a matter of seconds, a colleague still believes that the circle thrown by her husband saved her life.

There is also another phenomenon in Yuryevka - the release of gas to the surface. Locals say that in winter, when the sea is covered with a crust of thin transparent ice, accumulations of gas bubbles under the ice are very clearly visible. Children even have entertainment - to drill a small hole in the ice and set fire to the gas that comes out of it.

According to Georgy Ryazantsev, an employee of the Azov Research Station, the cause of death is methane emissions from silt deposits.

“Under the sand, under the shells, under the clayey rocks, the formation of cavities in which the gas is located is possible, and when these cavities are overfilled, the gas can escape right here,” says the researcher.

Thus, at the moment of gas release, a person finds himself in rarefied gas, the density of which does not allow a person to remain on the surface. He instantly falls into the abyss and dies in a split second.

Experts note that there have been no extensive scientific studies on the impact of the geological fault on the ecology of the Sea of ​​Azov in its northern part. The seashore is fraught with a lot of unsolved mysteries. Unfortunately, some of these mysteries lead to terrible consequences, and therefore, in our opinion, deserve a closer, detailed scientific study. According to experts, in order to accurately determine the causes of the tragedies and develop a set of security measures, it is necessary to carry out drilling operations in the anomalous zone of the Sea of ​​Azov, and this is a very expensive and troublesome undertaking. Nevertheless, the number of tragic cases in Yuryevka has already exceeded the mark when it is time to deal with the issue in an adult way. Indeed, until now, a significant part of the cases with drowned people is attributed to their drunken state and carelessness of behavior in the water. What percentage of them corresponds to the real state of affairs, no one can say today.

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The crews of two ships that were in distress during a storm in the Kerch Strait were hospitalized in a hospital in the city of Taman. According to RIA "Novosti", this was announced on Monday by the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. According to him, 13 people from the Volgoneft-139 tanker that broke in half and 11 people from the sunken bulk carrier Kovel were hospitalized.

Three members of the crew of the sunken cargo ship "Nakhichevan" are in intensive care in a Ukrainian hospital, the representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations added. The search for eight more members of the Nakhichevan crew continues.

Sunday's storm caused an unprecedented emergency in the Azov and Black Seas - five ships sank in one day, including three bulk carriers with sulfur and a fuel oil tanker, and several more ships ran aground.

On the eve it was reported that as a result of the crash of a dry cargo ship with a cargo of metal in Sevastopol, two crew members were killed.

The message about the first shipwreck was received by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Krasnodar Territory on Sunday at about half past five in the morning. The oil tanker Volgoneft-139, which was on the roads in the Kerch Strait, was torn in half as a result of a storm. About 2 thousand tons of fuel oil from five or six tanks spilled into the sea.

At 10.25 in the area of ​​the port "Kavkaz" the dry cargo ship "Volnogorsk" sank, on board of which there were more than 2.6 thousand tons of sulfur. The crew of eight people left the ship on a life raft and managed to land on the same Tuzla spit. There has been no leakage of sulfur so far as the cargo has been sealed.

At 11.50, the most modern of all the wrecked ships sank in the strait - the cargo ship "Nakhichevan" with 2,000 tons of sulfur on board. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, at the beginning of the crash, until the deck buildings went under water, all 11 people were on them. As Tatyana Burmistrova, a representative of the Krasnodar headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, told Kommersant, only three members of the crew of this dry cargo ship were saved - sailors Alexander Gorshkov and Roman Radonsky and cook Anna Rey. “There is no data on the rest of the crew members yet, and they are only being searched from tugboats,” she said.

The fourth ship that suffered distress in the area of ​​the port "Kavkaz" is the dry cargo ship "Kovel" also with sulfur on board and a crew of 11 people. During a storm, he stumbled upon the already sunken "Volnogorsk", received a hole and sank. The rescuers managed to transfer the crew of the cargo ship to a tow.

At the same time, in the area of ​​the port of Novorossiysk, due to hurricane winds and breakage of anchor chains, the Turkish motor ship Ziya Kos and a Georgian ship were thrown aground. The crews of both ships were not injured.

Ecologists say that a series of shipwrecks threaten the region with a serious environmental disaster. “The tankers with sulfur sunk in the Kerch Strait pose, in my opinion, a lesser threat to the environment than spilled fuel oil, for several reasons,” says Alexei Kiselev, head of the toxic company Greenpeace Russia. “Firstly, sulfur is poorly soluble and much more inert material "Secondly, as far as I know, it was transported in airtight containers and has not leaked yet."

Catastrophic surge phenomena in the Sea of ​​Azov

In the seventies, on Taman between Temryuk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, a few kilometers from the coast, one could see rusty fishing seiners lying on their sides. This was the result of a terrible blow of waves that penetrated far into the depths of the low-lying coast. After the fishing season, Azov fishermen often leave seiners at anchor near the shore, and they themselves are transported to the shore in boats. These SChS - medium-sized Black Sea seiners - were torn off the anchors by a huge wave caused by surge phenomena in the shallow Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov.

The Sea of ​​Azov is a relatively small body of water, which is actually a bay of the Black Sea. Its water area is 37.6 thousand km 2. The length of the sea from the mouth of the Don to Arabat is 340 km, the width from Temryuk to the mouth of the Berda River is more than 150 km. km. The sea is located inside the continent, its depth is up to 14 m, the total volume of the water mass is approximately up to 303 km 3. Even the ancient Greeks disparagingly called it the Meotian swamp (24) . It would seem that Azov should be calm and quiet. Meanwhile, it storms here from 61 to 98 times a year. Storm winds reach speed 40 m/sec. On average, up to 76 storms occur, sometimes they are very strong and cover the entire sea area. It is difficult then for fishermen and sailors.

Very often, the causes of disasters and human casualties in the Sea of ​​Azov are unusual natural phenomena - surge waves.

In the literature it was possible to find very interesting facts about these terrible disasters. In Russian literature, catastrophic wave impacts were first recorded in 1739 (25), when the Turkish outposts of Achuevo, Temryuk and Taman were besieged on October 1 by Russian troops led by General Debrille. The troops crossed the branch of the Kuban - the Protoka, transported artillery, but at night a terrible storm broke out into the sea. The waves flooded the area, broke the ferry, flooded artillery and ammunition. The next day the sea was quiet. Russian troops recovered from the flood. Russian artillery attacks caused fires in the Achuyevo fortress. The Turkish units left towards Temryuk. And then the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov again rolled its waves against the Russian positions around Achuevo. The troops of General Debrille were forced to retreat from Temryuk and Taman, leaving the deserted fortress of Achuevo.

In 1770, the elements of the sea fell on the newly created base of the Russian fleet on the Sea of ​​Azov - Taganrog. We learn about this from the notes of the Russian naval officer Ilya Khanykov:

“On November 10th of the same year, 1770, two-thirds of the harbor was blown along the banks, after that, on December 15th, the wind became even stronger ... and the entire harbor was blown to the ground ... and after that and to this day (i.e. until 1772) pestilence went around Taganrog, barracks, dugouts, people were whipped by fever (fever). The author of the book from which this quote is borrowed is V.N. Ganichev - writes about a crushing tornado, but it seems to me that, by all indications, this is a storm blow, accompanied by a surge of water in the Taganrog region (26).

According to documents, a hundred years later, the flood in the southeastern part of Azov was repeated. Information about whether there were surges of water in the period between these events has not been preserved in the literature. During the flood of 1840, the Sweet and Rubtsovskoe branches of the Kuban were brought in.

There was also a flood in 1877.

In December 1913, a different picture was observed in the north of the Sea of ​​Azov: because of the wind, the sea level dropped. In the Taganrog port, the sea receded by 2.5 m. Vessels in the roadstead sat on the ground and fell on their side.

One of the most terrible floods was accompanied by a storm in February 1914. In this month, strong southerly winds blew for several days, giving way to an equally strong northerly wind on the night of February 28. As a result, in the southeastern corner of Azov, the water rose by 4.3 m. A continuous mass of water flooded the entire seashore from Yeysk to the Kerch Strait. The cities of Temryuk and even Yeysk were partially destroyed by the waves. The casualties were enormous. About 3 thousand people died! Only on the Achuevskaya Spit, the all-destroying shaft washed away almost 1,500 people. Of the 200 railway workers who were carried away to the sea near Primorsko-Akhtarsk, about 50 people survived.

Here is information about some of the strongest surge phenomena of the post-war period (27) .

December 23, 1947 as a result of strong westerly winds (20-28 m/s) water rose in the areas of Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Temryuk. The port in Primorsko-Akhtarsk and two villages in Temryuk were flooded.

June 25-26, 1948 strong southwest wind (20 m/s) caused a rise in water, flooding of settlements and destruction of houses in the area of ​​Berdyansk. October 25, 1948 westerly storm (wind 30 m/s) raged in the area of ​​Art. Dolzhanskaya. Roofs were torn off houses, material losses were great.

February 28, 1949 under the influence of a southwestern storm (wind speed 20 m/s) the sea level rose, coastal buildings were destroyed by ice in Mariupol.

March 29-30, 1949 east and northeast storm caused by winds of 20-25 m/s, caused great material damage in Berdyansk and in the Mysovaya area in the south of the Azov Sea, where a fishing vessel was torn from anchors.

November 12-20, 1952 east wind speed 24-28 m/s caused destruction in Berdyansk (ripped off roofs, knocked down communication poles, etc.), caused a severe storm at sea.

February 3-4, 1954 strong east wind (24-28 m/s) was accompanied by snowstorms, which led to a stop of railway traffic in the Temryuk area, a surge of water and storms in the western part of the sea.

November 21-30, 1954 easterly storm (wind 20-24 m/s) caused a rise in water in Genichesk, where a fish factory was flooded, and the railway was washed out.

December 12, 1955 as a result of a storm caused by a westerly wind (20-24 m/s), sea ​​level in the area of ​​st. Dolzhansky climbed 2 m. In Primorsko-Akhtarsk, part of the port was flooded.

The ferocious impact of the water mass on the southeast of the Sea of ​​Azov on August 23, 1960 is memorable. The sea merged with the coastal estuaries into one boundless water surface. The material damage was enormous. People died.

According to A.P. Chernyakova, January 30 - February 4, 1962 strong east wind (28 m/s) led to a rise in water in Genichesk by 236 cm. The water rose to the level of residential buildings, damaged the railway embankment.

The tragedy of the south-east of the Sea of ​​Azov was repeated on a larger scale in 1969. On October 28, the largest five-meter water shaft in the history of the region hit the same south-eastern corner of the sea again. Here is a description of an eyewitness - the caretaker of the Temryuk lighthouse:

“At dusk, from the Temryuk lighthouse, I saw a mountain of water approaching from the sea in the northwest. My boat was badly tied, and in order to secure it, I went down from the elevated shore, where the lighthouse stands, to the sea. But it was already too late. The oncoming shaft tore the chain out of his hands and spun the boat like a propeller. A few days later, the wreckage of the boat was found on the shore. I rushed to the cliff and, clinging to the bushes, managed to climb the cliff before it was covered by a wave of water. The sea boiled until evening, then slowly began to subside. The next day, a calm reigned, which lasted for two months.

Rice. 4. Scheme of the movement of water masses and the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov on October 28-29, 1969 (According to N.D. Mikheenkov: "Man and the Elements", - 1971. P. 51).

N.D. Mikheenkov (1971) connects this natural disaster with the action of a deep cyclone that came from the shores of the Baltic (Fig. 4). Southwest wind speed 16-20 m/s overtook the Black Sea water through the Kerch Strait. After the passage of the cold front, the wind suddenly changed sharply to the west, and its speed increased to 30 m/s, with gusts up to 40 m/sec. The Black Sea water, which entered through the Kerch Strait, was driven into the Temryuk Bay. The level of the mouth of the Kuban rose by 1.5 m above average, and salinity reached 13‰. The next surge was created by westerly winds that arose after the passage of the second cold front. In the northwestern part of the Sea of ​​Azov, for example, near Genichesk, the sea level dropped sharply. At 22:25, according to N.D. Mikheenkov, the sea level skew along the Genichesk-Temryuk line was 5 m The highest sea level rise was recorded near the village of Perekopka - 850 cm; north of Primorsko-Akhtarsk - 650 cm. On the night of October 28-29, the swollen Azov Sea penetrated deep into the land by 8-10, and east of Temryuk even by 17 km at the transgression front 150 km. In the villages of Peresypskaya, Kuchugurakh, in the city of Temryuk, a few months after the flood. Traces of violations were visible everywhere, the sea level was, as it were, fixed on the walls of the white houses of villages and settlements. The material sacrifices were enormous. Coastal ships moored at the berth of the Temryuk port were thrown far from the port water area. The same fate befell the already mentioned fishing seiners. The Temryuk fish factory was destroyed, many buildings were damaged. People were filmed from the roofs by helicopters, boats, by all available means. They did not write about the victims, but they were. And very significant, for a terrible rise in water occurred at night, when people were sleeping.

In 1970, strong winds blowing in a northwestern direction drove water, on the contrary, into the extreme northwestern corner of the Sea of ​​Azov - into the Utlyuk estuary. Water flooded part of the city of Genichesk and the railway bridge (28). Cases of a catastrophic rise in water are also known in the north of the sea. So, July 6, 1985 big, at 196 cm, surge of water was observed in the area of ​​Taganrog, as well as near the Krivaya Spit. The scythe disappeared into the waves of the sea. Instead, three islands formed. The height of the water rise on the Krivaya Spit reached 2-3 m. Numerous vacationers were quickly evacuated from the newly emerged islands. This time there were no casualties, although material losses were significant. A fact is known from the practice of the authors in the Sea of ​​Azov, when in the 80s the research drilling vessel of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "Geochemist" spent ten days aground in the Utlyuk estuary near Biryuchy Island during the winter water runoff and safely left the estuary under its own power after after the sea level returned to normal and the wind stopped.

Unfortunately, the Sea of ​​Azov does not promise us a quiet life. Catastrophes and troubles due to the vagaries of nature are possible in the future. The role of the hydrometeorological service is very important, which should warn people about the possible onset of the elements.

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Today, due to a severe storm in the Sea of ​​Azov, an oil tanker and two dry cargo ships carrying several tons of sulfur sank. Ecologists say that sulfur getting into the sea is an even bigger environmental disaster than an oil spill.

At night, the Russian tanker Volgoneft-139 broke in two in the Kerch Strait. According to official data, as a result of the accident, 1.3 thousand tons of oil products spilled into the water.

Some time later, in the area of ​​the Kavkaz port, the dry cargo ship Volnogorsk sank with 2.5 thousand tons of sulfur on board. True, again, according to official data, as a result of the shipwreck, sulfur did not get into the sea, the crew members of the dry cargo ship left the ship in a timely manner and were rescued.

Misfortune never comes alone

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, there were reports that another ship with a cargo of sulfur, the dry cargo ship Nakhichevan, sank in the Kerch Strait. At the moment, a search is underway for the sailors who disappeared during the crash of the dry-cargo ship, but they have not yet yielded results, an employee of the press service of the main department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the Krasnodar Territory told RIA Novosti.

According to him, three members of the crew of this cargo ship have been rescued - sailors Alexander Gorshkov and Roman Radonsky and cook Anna Rey.

Also recently received information that the tanker "Volgoneft-123" was damaged.

Despite the fact that about 50 ships have been withdrawn from the Kerch Strait to safe areas, another ship is in critical condition. According to some reports, the SOS signal was given by the ship, whose anchor chain was broken. In addition, there is an unguided barge with 3,000 tons of fuel oil in the strait, which is being carried towards Cape Tuzla.

And in the Black Sea too

Today, not only the Sea of ​​​​Azov is stormy. A difficult situation is also developing in the Black Sea. So, in the area of ​​Sevastopol, a Russian ship sank with a cargo of metal, which was sailing along the route Mariupol - Istanbul. Of the 16 crew members, 13 people escaped, two died, one is considered missing.

The disaster area gathers all kinds of leaders. So, Anatoly Yanchuk, head of the State Emergency and Rescue Coordination Service (Gosmorspasluzhba), Evgeny Trunin, deputy head of the Federal Sea and River Transport Service (Rosmorrechflot), and Vladimir Popov, deputy head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Transport (Rostransnadzor), have already arrived there.

Sulfur is more dangerous than oil

A cargo of sulfur on dry cargo ships sunk due to a storm in the Kerch Strait is more harmful to the environment than an oil spill, RIA Novosti quotes the President of the Russian Green Cross, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Sergey Baranovsky.

"An oil spill is a big problem, but an even bigger problem is a sunken cargo of sulfur. Now the scale of possible environmental damage depends on the prompt actions of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and rescue services, but in any case, this is a serious environmental disaster," Baranovsky said.

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In recent days, the Sea of ​​Azov has been in the center of attention of the world media due to another aggravation of Russian-Ukrainian relations. However, tragedies in these waters have occurred over the centuries. From this material you will learn about the most terrible events that happened in the waters of Azov.

1779: explosion on the frigate "Third"

In 1779, in the harbor of the city of Kerch, repairs were carried out on the Trety sailing frigate, one of the best ships of the Russian fleet, which had been built six years earlier. Workers upholstered the kruyt-chamber with canvas - a room for storing combustible substances. An accidental fire provoked the explosion of 149 barrels of gunpowder. The ship was literally smashed to pieces, 20 sailors died.

1781-82: incidents with Taganrog

In the winter of 1781, the newly invented ship "Taganrog" was pushed out of the Taganrog harbor by ice. Having received a hole, the ship sank. At the same time, 39 crew members died, dozens of those who survived received frostbite. A year later, the ship was raised from the bottom and began to be used again. However, in November 1782, when trying to enter the same bay, Taganrog again stumbled upon ice and was partially flooded - this shipwreck claimed the lives of 32 sailors.

1914: catastrophic storm

In the year of the beginning of the First World War, the level of the Sea of ​​Azov in the southeastern part rose during a storm by 4.3 meters. The reason for this, according to the researcher Yevgeny Shnyukov, was an unusual phenomenon - surge waves. Many people were swept into the sea, 3,000 people died. Yeisk and Temryuk were destroyed. About half of the victims were in the area of ​​the Achuevskaya Spit. Near Primorsko-Akhtarsk, 150 railway workers drowned during a storm.

1927: a terrible tornado in Yenikal

The tornado that rose on the shores of the Kerch Strait on September 20, 1927 was so strong that it lifted two fishing vessels into the air and moved them to a distance of 150 meters. One of the fishermen died, three were crippled.

1944: landing on Cape Tarkhan

During the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army carried out a landing on Cape Tarkhan in the Kerch Strait with huge losses. The operation took place from 9 to 11 January 1944. 51 ships of the Azov flotilla went to sea in the evening, but during the transition to the cape the storm intensified, the wind rose to 7 points, due to which 5 landing motorboats sank.

At 8 o'clock in the morning on January 10, infantrymen began to land in icy water, losing weapons and ammunition. At the same time, German aircraft fired at the flotilla from the air. The Soviet aviation, which was supposed to cover the operation, did not appear on the spot.

The number of victims during the landing was 177 paratroopers - they drowned or were killed. In addition, crew members of several sunken boats, tenders and motorboats were killed.

1969: tsunami on the Kuban coast

One of the most devastating disasters in the history of Azov was the rampage of the elements in October 1969. Due to a sharp change in wind, a wave 4 meters high hit the coast of the Temryuk region of the Krasnodar Territory. The tsunami destroyed the fishing villages of Chaikino, Achuyevo, Perekopka and Verbenaya, in Temryuk the buildings in the port, the ship repair and canning factories, and resort buildings were damaged. A strip of land 10-12 kilometers wide was flooded. The exact number of deaths was not called, however, according to experts, the bill goes to hundreds of people. Thousands of people lost their homes, the fishing industry of the region was completely destroyed.

1988: plane crash over the Yeysk estuary

On August 8, 1988, the An-12 laboratory aircraft, which was flown by pilots of the 535th separate mixed aviation regiment, crashed into the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov. There were 50 passengers on board the aircraft. During the landing approach over the Yeysk Liman, the aircraft's engines suddenly turned off, and it crashed into shallow water. The hull hit the bottom and broke. Of the 25 dead, some were fatally injured on impact, while others drowned. Half of the passengers managed to escape, not without the help of local residents who sailed to the scene on small boats. The cause of the disaster was the use of aviation fuel mixed with water.