The latest video evidence of the total chaos reigning at sea in Boka was published today on TikTok.
Two men driving scooters overtake the cruise ship "MSC Armonia" in the Verige Strait.
At the same time, both of them are approaching at full speed, only a few meters away from the stern and the left side of the cruiser.
One of the scooterists, even with his small and fast vessel, literally "crawls" under the left part of the stern of the cruiser and enters the whirlpool of the ship's propeller.
Then the man, who obviously does not understand the danger he is exposing himself to, "gets out" on a scooter from under the stern of the big cruiser and continues driving right next to the side of the big ship. If, by some chance, the scooterist lost control at that moment and fell from his vessel, he would hardly have survived, because the inertia of the large ship's movement and the operation of the propellers of the "MSC Armonie" would have surely "sucked" him up and pulled him under the ship, where he would have almost he must have drowned, if he hadn't been literally crushed by the cruiser's propellers before that.
The page where the video was posted was removed from TikTok after writing "News".
This recording is one more in a series of confirmations that the state of navigation safety in Boka is at a critical level and that only by sheer luck and coincidence has there not yet been an accident with tragic consequences.
Today, as "Vijesti" unofficially learns, an urgent meeting was held in Kotor between the Minister of Maritime Affairs Filip Radulović, the recently appointed new director of the Directorate for Maritime Affairs in that ministry, Nikola Marku, with the harbor captains in Kotor and Bar, Mirko Fuštić and Predrag Ratković, representatives of the Maritime Safety Administration. and port management of Montenegro, the Navigation Safety Inspection and the Port State Control Inspection.
The focus of the meeting was precisely the extremely bad situation with the safety of navigation on the coast, especially in Boke Bay.
And while Radulović and Marku insisted that the situation urgently needs to be improved and more regular and stricter controls at sea must be established, from the lower echelons of the maritime administration, the minister and his associate are openly and without hesitation, faced with the bad situation that, until recently, the Ministry of Capital Investments, i.e. The Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs made their own mistakes in this area: from the completely "disempowered" Port Captains, only one navigation safety inspector who should cover the entire country, the reluctance and avoidance of PSC inspectors to deal with violations of navigation safety by vessels flying the Montenegrin flag, even though the possibility the law allows the PSC inspection, until there are no technical possibilities for inspectors and UPSUL to document violations of regulations in the sense of non-observance of the maximum permitted speed and other aspects of navigation, which would easily prove the guilt of violators before the court and create a legal basis for their drastic fines.
Bonus video:
