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Fishermen boarded drifting bulk carrier
Fishermen from Varna have boarded the 'Emil', which was drifting off Shabla, and filmed it. The footage showed that the bridge burned out completely and everything was stolen from the ship. No one was on board, its systems did not work and it could not be steered. The fishermen were out in their own boat off Shabla when they saw the 'Emil' and managed to climb aboard. Captain Nikolay Dobrev believed that the strikes on the 'Emil' were very precise. Five or six drones hit the ship for certain. The ship, which was drifting inside the Bulgarian Exclusive Economic Zone, has been taken under tow by a Turkish company. On Oct 13 at 8:30 a.m. the ship was located 65 nautical miles from the Bosphorus. The vessel's movements continued to be monitored by the Coastal Center in Burgas. Reports with photos: https://burgasmedia.com/amp/news/varnenski-ribari-se-kachiha-na-dreyfashtiya-kray-shabla-korab-emil?lang=en https://fakti.bg/en/bulgaria/1089412-the-ship-emil-has-been-removed-from-the-bulgarian-economic-zone
Abandoned bulk carrier drifting in Black Sea
Navy helicopters have located the 'Emil', which has been adrift in the Black Sea since two months, about 40 kilometres east of Cape Shabla. The vessel was struck by a drone in the Odesa area on August 5. Following the fire, which gutted the accomodation block, bridge and engine room, and subsequent failure of its technical systems,it was rendered unmanageable and abandoned by its crew. Since then, the ship has been adrift in Romania's exclusive economic zone and drifted with the ocean currents, moving southwards. The Bulgarian Navy has issued a warning to vessels navigating the region about the presence of a dangerous, unmanned, and uncontrolled vessel in the indicated area. The ship was being monitored, and the relevant authorities were prepared to take the necessary measures, according to an Armed Forces statement. Report with photos: https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-emergencies/4171188-media-reports-russianstruck-ship-near-odesa-drifts-unmanned-40-miles-from-bulgaria.html
Russia attacked tug while towing Emil, killing two and injuring more
On Sep 9, 2026, a Russian drone attack was launched on the tug 'Tedy' (IMO: 9059200) off the coast of Odesa while attempting to tow the 'Emil' weeks after the drone attack on Aug 5, which had crippled the ship, which had been damaged in a drone attack on Aug 5, while it was sailing in the Black Sea, about 21 nautical miles from Odesa. There were ten people on board the tug, among them four Azerbaijani citizens, three Turkish citizens, two German citizens, and one Ukrainian citizen. Following the attack on the tug, it went alongside at port side of the bulk carrier, and the crew boarded the vessel using the pilot ladder, and waited there. They hoisted the white and also a Turkish flag, but the drones hit anyway. The Azerbaijani seafarers Aslan Aliyev and Asim Gasımov lost their lives in the attacks on the tug, while two more crew members, Imran Novruzov and Rauf Aliyev were injured. The injured seafarers were taken ashore received treatment in a hospital in Chornomorsk. The tug was hit again by two drones while heading towards the port city of Constanța on the early morning of Sep 10. Russia's defence ministry earlier had wrongly stated it had hit two dry cargo ships as they sailed to the nearby port of Odesa, delivering cargo for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdGzLAkDWG1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&stkn=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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