Thirty crew members of the British destroyer Portland suffered from water pollution on board after the operation to track the ship "Admiral Gorshkov"
Sailors of the British Royal fleet were hospitalized after drinking "contaminated" water on their ship, writes the British edition of The Guardian, citing a Royal Navy spokesman.
We are talking about the sailors of the frigate HMS Portland, on which it was discovered that the "chemical" got into the ship's system to convert sea water into drinking water. After that, the ship headed to the naval base in Portsmouth.
A Navy spokesman said that as a precaution, after discovering a problem with one of the ship's desalination systems, he arrived at the base in Portsmouth, and some crew members were sent to the hospital.
According to the Telegraph, the “pollution” of water was influenced by the human factor and the perpetrator immediately admitted that he had made a mistake. About 30 crew members of the frigate HMS Portland were injured, the newspaper notes.
So far, there is no information about what kind of substance got into the water. At the moment, experts have begun an investigation and are on board the ship.
The Guardian recalls that HMS Portland left its home port in Plymouth on January 7 to track the Russian warship Admiral Gorshkov in the North Sea. It was after this operation that the problem suddenly manifested itself.
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