Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise: ""little is yet known about the staff aboard the Yi Peng 3,...Bild on Wednesday reported that the captain has Russian nationality...reported at the time that the Newnew Polar Bear had quite a few Russian links, including both its ownership & the crew that had been aboard when the incident occurred."" / Blueviewer

Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise@boboinparadise.bsky.social·2024-11-22T10:01:33.301Z

"little is yet known about the staff aboard the Yi Peng 3,...Bild on Wednesday reported that the captain has Russian nationality...reported at the time that the Newnew Polar Bear had quite a few Russian links, including both its ownership & the crew that had been aboard when the incident occurred."

auonsson@auonsson.bsky.social·2024-11-22T11:01:02.144Z #

might be russian, might be swedish, might be chinese. We dont know. But there is one unverified doc saying it is a person with chinese sounding name. BILD spread disinfo and lots of media jumped on. SAD.

Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise@boboinparadise.bsky.social·2024-11-22T17:41:01.246Z #

It strikes me as noteworthy that a PRC flagged vessel has a non PRC crew, much less 2 of them, that seems rare? Usually have to furnish a manifest to enter port.