1. Deadly Risk on the Straits
... swimming areas but now filthy and virtually dead- have been controlled by, among others, Greeks, Persians, Romans, Byzantines and Ottoman Turks. Later on, under the Treaty of Montreux, Turkey regained sovereignty over the waterway. ECONOMICAL STUDY: It's time for the economical importance of the straits to ... A ship needs to maintain at least a five-knot speed with respect to the water in order to steer. If a slow-moving old tanker suddenly hits one of these cross currents and the natural reaction of the captain is to slow down, the result will be loss ... Two ships named as Zaroviz...
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