USS Truman collides with merchant vessel in Mediterranean Sea | LiveNOW from FOX

A nuclear-powered U.S. Navy aircraft carrier was involved in an overnight collision with a cargo ship, the Pentagon announced Thursday.

The 1,092-foot-long USS Harry S. Truman collided with a 618-foot-long cargo ship off the coast of Egypt.

The Navy says the carrier did not flood and no one aboard was hurt.

The circumstances around the collision were not yet clear.

The merchant ship involved in the collision, the Panama-flagged BesiktasM, is underway and departing the anchorage north of Port Said. The ship was released by Egyptian authorities and will continue its voyage to Romania.

LiveNOW’s Andy Mac spoke about the collision in the Mediterranean Sea with maritime shipping expert Sal Mercogliano.

BACKGROUND: The USS Harry S. Truman – Navy designation CVN 75 – is a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1998. The ship is 1,092 feet long with a 252-foot-wide flight deck and can carry up to 90 planes and helicopters. The Truman, which is based in Norfolk, Virginia, deployed in September to the Mediterranean and the Middle East in support of Operation Prosperity Guardian, defending ships against Houthi rebels. It had just completed a port call in Souda Bay, Greece.

According to MarineTraffic.com, Besiktas-M is a bulk cargo carrier that sails under the Panamanian flag. The ship is 618 feet long and 105 feet wide and is capable of carrying nearly 30,000 tons of cargo.

Marine tracking data showed the ship had just cleared the Suez Canal and was reportedly headed from Port Said to a destination in Romania.

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