A U.S. aircraft carrier collided with a merchant ship Wednesday evening in the Mediterranean Sea.
“The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) was involved in a collision with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M at approximately 11:46 p.m. local time, Feb. 12, while operating in the vicinity of Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea,” the U.S. Navy’s Sixth Fleet said in a statement, according to ABC News.
BREAKING: US aircraft carrier collides with another ship at seahttps://t.co/Wt2h7E2Wzr
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 13, 2025
ABC News reports:
The collision involved a rare collision of two large vessels as the 100,000-ton aircraft carrier collided with the 53,000-ton merchant vessel Besiktas-M, a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship.
There are no reports of injuries, nor is there flooding, aboard the carrier, which carries a crew of 5,000 sailors, and the incident is under investigation.
The Truman is powered by two nuclear reactors and four propulsion systems, and the Sixth Fleet’s statement said the ship’s propulsion plants were unaffected and were said to be in “a safe and stable condition.”
The aircraft carrier and its strike group had been operating in the Red Sea since mid-December as part of the mission to thwart Houthi militant attacks launched from Yemen at commercial vessels transiting the vital waterway.
ADVERTISEMENTThe carrier had arrived at a naval base in Crete earlier in the week, a rare break for the strike group that has been in constant operations, though the pace had ebbed as Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas took effect in mid-January.
BREAKING!!! USS Harry S. Truman Collides with Merchant Ship Off Egypt’s Coast
The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier collided with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M near Port Said, Egypt, at 11:46 p.m. on Wednesday, according to U.S. Navy officials.
Details on the extent of… pic.twitter.com/yoxGIWq4oI
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) February 13, 2025
The USS Harry S. Truman, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, collided with a merchant vessel near Port Said, Egypt, late Wednesday night.
The carrier remains stable, with no injuries or flooding reported, and… pic.twitter.com/rhrmHozMEP
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 13, 2025
Per USA TODAY:
The USS Harry S. Truman did not suffer flooding, damage to its nuclear-powered engines, or injuries to its crew, according to the fleet. Port Said, the nearest port to where the collision occurred, is at the northern end of the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
The other ship involved in the collision, the Panama-flagged merchant vessel Besiktas-M, is a Panama-flagged bulk cargo carrier, according to the online VesselFinder database. Its status, and that of its crew, is unclear. The ship transited the canal in the hours before the collision.
The Navy did not provide further details about the incident, which it said “is under investigation.”
The carrier, which operates out of Norfolk, Va., has a crew and additional units that total roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines.
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Why does this keep happening?
Are all of these just coincidences and bad timing?
Planes, Trains and Shipping Vessels — What Comes Next?
Plains, Trains and Automobiles was a hilarious movie. Maybe Top 20 comedy of all time, especially since Hollywood has been incapable of writing comedies for about 10+ years now and doesn’t appear able to recover anytime in the foreseeable future.
But Plains, Trains and Shipping Vessel derailments? Not so funny.
Two things happened yesterday that caused me to consider this topic and write this article.
First, someone mentioned to me how it seems like there has been a huge increase of tragic events under the Biden Regime (remember all the train derailments? Now planes falling apart every day. Now capped off by a Shipping Vessel taking out an entire key bridge).
But don’t worry, this guy is on the case and going to fix it all real soon:
Of course we covered all of those on a daily basis, but stepping back to view the forrest from the trees, it was stunning to really think about.
Then they asked me the question: what do you think happens next? Between now and the election. Do you think it gets better or worse?
Neither of us really needed to answer that question because we both knew.
The second thing was I ran across the meme posted above.
Sometimes a picture truly is worth 1,000 words.
I don’t recall much, if any, of this crap happening under Donald Trump’s watch.
Oh we had some mean Tweets, but the world was mostly at piece and under control.
Now?
Well, I thought it might be good to turn to the actual data and take a walk down memory lane.
This is by no means a comprehensive list, that would take far too long, but here is just some of what we’ve endured over the pat 4 years of the Biden Regime.
How much of this must happen before it becomes “not a coincidence”?
I don’t know, but see how far you can stick with me as we walk down memory lane….
Of course probably the most notable and tragic derailment was in Palestine, OH.
I’m sure you all remember this:
Oklahoma:
Nebraska:
JUST IN: Another Train Derailment! Hazmat Team Called to Nebraska
Ohio (again):
Minnesota:
BREAKING: Derailed Train in Minnesota Catches Fire, Causes Immediate Evacuation
BREAKING: Train Hauling Hazardous Materials Derails in North Dakota
Washington:
5,000 Gallons of Diesel Spills After Train Derails in Washington
West Virginia:
Train Derails In West Virginia! Multiple Injuries, Fuel Tank Plunges Into River
Kansas:
Pennsylvania:
PENNSYLVANIA: 18-Inch Pipe Bomb Reportedly Found on Train Tracks
Wow, right?
And that was just a SMALL sample, I stopped before it got unreasonably long.
And that was just trains.
I probably don't need to remind you too much about all the airplane incidents recently....planes literally falling apart during takeoff, midflight and during landing.
Here are just a few:
NYC-Bound Plane Forced To Land After Fire Breaks Out “Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!”
SHOCKING Footage Shows Atlas Air Plane On Fire Mid-Air, Makes Emergency Landing
TERRIFYING: Video Shows Boeing 737 Losing Section Of Plane In The Air
Anyone excited about flying the friendly skies these days?
Me either.
Then of course we have the infamous incident from yesterday which was horrific:
MUST SEE: Bridge Crash Video Sped Up To 8x Shows A Very Different Picture
And I saved perhaps the best (worst) for last.
Don't forget about all of these:
STUNNING: Map Shows All Food Processing Plants That Have Burned Down, Blown Up or Been Destroyed Under Biden
Folks, this is truly stunning.
They are trying to destroy our food supply!
As someone who sits in this chair and covers the news each day, I see this firsthand.
Heck, we covered this one just this morning:
I knew there have been a lot of food processing plants and other food supply buildings that have burned down, blown up or otherwise met a catastrophic, untimely end in the last 3 years, but I had no idea just how many until I saw it all together in one place.
I've been here to cover each of these, but it's really jarring when you see it all in one place.
Watch this video:
STUNNING: This map shows all the food processing plants that have either caught fire or been destroyed...
They are trying to destroy our food supply! pic.twitter.com/LTjTv3Kq74
— DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) January 31, 2024
If you're not the video type, then see it in print below...
Here's a complied list of nearly 100 fires from 2021 and 2022 from Rumble:
1— 4/30/21 Monmouth Smithfield Foods pork processing plant 2— 7/25/21 Memphis Kellogg plant 3— 8/13/21 JBS beef plant 4— 8/24/21 Patak Meat Company 5— 7/30/21 Tyson River Valley ingredient plant 6— 10/21/21 Darigold plant 7— 11/15/21 Garrard County food plant 8—11/29/21 Maid-Rite Steak Company 9—12/13/21 San Antonio food processing, West side Foods 10—1/7/22 Hamilton Mountain poultry processing Plant 11—1/13/22 Cargill-Nutrene feed mill. Lacombe, La 12—1/31/22 Winston-Salem fertilizer plant 13—2/3/22 Wisconsin River Meats 14—2/3/22 Percy dairy farm 15—2/5/22 Wisconsin River Meats processing facility destroyed by fire in Mauston, Wisconsin. 16—2/15/22 Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas 17—2/15/22 Shearer's Foods Food processing plant explodes in Hermiston, Oregon. 18—2/16/22 Indiana Louis-Dreyfus soy processing plant 19—2/18/22 Bess View Farms 20—2/19/22 Lincoln premiere poultry 21—2/22/22 Shearer's Foods potato chip plant 22—2/22/22 Fire destroys Deli Star Meat Plant in Fayetteville, Illinois. 23—2/28/22 nutrient AG Solutions fertilizer facility burns 24—2/28/22 Shadow Brook Farm & Dutch girl Creamery burns 25—3/4/22 294,800 chickens destroyed at farm in Stoddard, Missouri 26—3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland 27—3/8/22 243,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in New Castle, Delaware 28—3/10/22 663,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland 29—3/10/22 915,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Taylor, Iowa 30—3/14/22 Wayne Hoover dairy farm, barn full of cows burns 313/14/22 2,750,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Jefferson, Wisconsin 32—3/16/22 Walmart Distribution Center burns for 76 hours in Plainfield Ind. 33—3/16/22 Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas 34—3/17/22 5,347,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Buena Vista, Iowa 35—3/17/22 147,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Kent, Delaware 36—3/18/22 315,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland 37—3/19/22 Walmart Food Distribution center catches fire in Plainfield, Indiana 38—3/22/22 172,000 Turkeys destroyed on farms in South Dakota 39—3/22/22 570,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska 40—3/24/22 Major Fire at McCrum Potato Plant in Belfast, Maine. 41—3/24/22 418,500 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska 42—3/25/22 250,300 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Franklin, Iowa 43—3/26/22 311,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 44—3/27/22 126,300 Turkeys destroyed in South Dakota 45—3/28/22 1,460,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Guthrie, Iowa 46—3/29/22 Maricopa, Az. Food Pantry burns down 50,000 pounds of Food destroyed in Maricopa, Arizona. 47—3/31/22 Rio Fresh Onion factory damaged by fire in San Juan, Texas. 48—3/31/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Osceola, Iowa 49—3/31/22 5,011,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Osceola, Iowa 50—4/6/22 281,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina 51—4/9/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 52—4/9/22 208,900 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 53—4/12/22 89,700 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina 54—4/12/22 1,746,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Dixon, Nebraska 55—4/12/22 259,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Minnesota 56—4/13/22 Fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire. 57—4/13/22 Plane crashes into Gem State Processing, Idaho potato and food processing plant 58—4/13/22 77,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 59—4/14/22 Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California. 60—4/14/22 Salinas food processing plant
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