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RUSSIA’S gold ship mystery might be solved, as a man was arrested in the case.

The rescue tug Rubin’s crew has detected an object on sonar that is presumed to be a missing general cargo ship that had been transporting more than 700 tonnes of gold-bearing ore in the Russian Far East. The object was found on the seabed at a depth of 25m in the area where the 830gt Amurskaya disappeared in heavy seas on 28 October. The ship had been headed from Port Kiran to Okhotsk when its crew issued a distress call off the Shantar Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk. Rubin was routed to the area after an oil slick was spotted from the air. Divers from the 1,170gt tug were unable to investigate this morning because of 3m waves and 18m-per-second winds. The ship’s crew of nine are now believed to have gone down with the vessel when its cargo shifted, rolling and swamping it. Nikolai Sukhanov, deputy chairman of the Russian Seamen's Union, told a Russian news agency that the ship had a welded bottom hatch, and also low, hinged gunwales and hull sides used for cargo loading, which might have given way. Meanwhile, regional prosecutors in Vladivostok said the CEO of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur Port Co – owner and operator of Amurskaya – has been arrested on suspicion of improper cargo loading, lack of sailing authority and other safety violations

Severe weather rebuffs Russian tug 'Rubin' trying to save trapped belugas

Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations recently sent a ship, the Rubin, to break up the ice in the Sinyavinsky Channel to free some 100 trapped Beluga whales, but severe weather forced the ship to seek safe harbor, as RIA Novosti reports. The ship sailed to the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Kamchatka to refuel and will reportedly attempt to resume rescue activities this month when the weather improves. It's probably a good idea to wait out the stormy weather in the North Pacific for the sake of the sailors. In the past couple of weeks the stormy weather of the North Pacific has been particularly brutal. To the southwest, around the Sea of Okhotsk, two ships ran into serious trouble. More at http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/severe-weather-rebuffs-russian-ship-trying-save-trapped-belugas