Oil tanker incident
Zefyros
12 March 2026
Off the coast of Iraq
What happened
Zefyros was reported struck off the coast of Iraq, with contemporaneous reporting assessing it was likely hit by an unmanned surface vessel as part of the same wave of attacks that struck Safesea Vishnu in the same area. No casualties were reported for this vessel.
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- Vessel / facility
- Oil products tanker
- Cargo
- Not established in the cited reporting
- Attack
- Suspected unmanned surface vessel strike
- Latitude
- 29.7500°
- Longitude
- 48.8500°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.
Approximate marker off Iraq's Gulf coast; precise coordinates not published.