The tug Ramazan Bey, operated by PGE Shipping, brought the ship down from the Black Sea; 6 rescue vessels of the coastal safety fleet, KURTARMA-9 leading, and the fast boat KEGM-5 walked it through, per 7deniz reporting matched across the Turkish press. The suspension was temporary.
“The diplomatic layer has not moved with the traffic.”
Great Ocean joins a ledger the Turkish yards keep: LDR Yasar towed to Samsun, Gulluk brought to Istanbul with its accommodation block holed, a Reyhan Sari crewman dead in July. Samsun's anchorage was last counted at about 70 ships against a normal 20 to 25.
The diplomatic layer has not moved with the traffic. Friday is day 7 since Zakharova rejected Fidan's Black Sea moratorium proposal, and no Turkish rejoinder has surfaced in the wires; the foreign ministry's press index has not moved past No 161, dated 19 August, and its subject was World Humanitarian Day. The shipowners' route runs through lawyers instead: T and O Denizcilik's ICC application against Ukraine stood, at last public word, at the power-of-attorney stage.