{"id":1542963,"date":"2025-06-21T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1542963"},"modified":"2025-06-21T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T00:55:00","slug":"container-ship-sinks-in-arabian-sea-near-oman-as-regional-conflict-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/container-ship-sinks-in-arabian-sea-near-oman-as-regional-conflict-worsens\/1542963\/","title":{"rendered":"Container Ship Sinks In Arabian Sea Near Oman As Regional Conflict Worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Container Ship Sinks In Arabian Sea Near Oman As Regional Conflict Worsens <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Oman&#8217;s Maritime Security Centre (MSC)\u2014a 24\/7 national operations hub overseen by the Royal Navy of Oman and coordinated by the Ministry of Defense\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OMAN_MSC\/status\/1936316142362218507\">reported<\/a> early Saturday on X that a container ship had sunk in the Arabian Sea off the country&#8217;s coast.<\/p>\n<p>The MV \u2018Phoenix 15\u2019, registered under the Comoros flag, sank approximately 20 NM southeast of Salalah. All 20 crew members were rescued by the nearby commercial MV \u2018Gulf Barakah.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u062d\u0631\u064a| MARITIME SECURITY CENTRE (@OMAN_MSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OMAN_MSC\/status\/1936316142362218507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MSC reported that MV&#8217; Phoenix 15&#8242;, a 118-meter container ship registered under the Comoros flag, &#8220;sank approximately 20 NM southeast of Salalah,&#8221; adding, &#8220;All 20 crew members were rescued by the nearby commercial MV&#8217; Gulf Barakah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ship tracking website <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinetraffic.com\/en\/ais\/details\/ships\/shipid:4356129\/mmsi:620999916\/imo:8357667\/vessel:PHOENIX_15\">Marine Traffic<\/a><\/em> showed the last position of\u00a0Phoenix 15 was off the coast of\u00a0Salalah, near Yemen, in the highly contested waters of the Arabian Sea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2025-06-21_10-35-32.png?itok=DvrY4aGh\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While MSC or any other officials in the region have not yet disclosed the cause of the Phoenix 15&#8217;s sinking\u2014whether due to mechanical failure, human error, or a possible attack\u2014the incident raises suspicion given its timing, occurring as the Israel\u2013Iran conflict enters its ninth day and heightening concerns over potential threats to regional shipping lanes, such as the critical maritime chokepoints across the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 06\/21\/2025 &#8211; 16:55<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/container-ship-sinks-arabian-sea-near-oman-regional-conflict-worsens\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/container-ship-sinks-arabian-sea-near-oman-regional-conflict-worsens<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Container Ship Sinks In Arabian Sea Near Oman As Regional Conflict Worsens Oman&#8217;s Maritime Security Centre (MSC)\u2014a 24\/7 national operations hub overseen by the Royal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1542964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6tov","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/2025-06-21_10-35-32-FV64IW.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}