Oil tanker incident
Safesea Vishnu
12 March 2026
Off the coast of Iraq
What happened
The Marshall Islands-flagged, US-owned tanker Safesea Vishnu was struck off the coast of Iraq in an attack contemporaneous reporting assessed was likely carried out by an unmanned surface vessel, killing one Indian crew member.
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- Vessel / facility
- Oil products tanker
- Cargo
- Not established in the cited reporting
- Attack
- Suspected unmanned surface vessel strike
- Latitude
- 29.7000°
- Longitude
- 48.9000°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.
Approximate marker off Iraq's Gulf coast; precise coordinates not published.