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MANAMA, Bahrain--Harbor officials closed part of an anchorage yesterday where six mines were found and crews from four nations searched for more in the busy facility off Fujairah, Just south of the Persian Gulf...
...anchorage off Fujairah was considered a safe haven from the seven-year-old war between Iran and Iraq until the U.S-operated supertanker Texaco Caribbean hit a mine Monday in the 35-square mile area...
...great ship has been out of work. It lies at anchor in the port of Southampton, manned only by two security guards who walk its 5 1/2 acres of decks. Meanwhile, 17 more big tankers stand idle in fjords along the coast of Norway. At the port of Fujairah, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, Harbor Master Roger Turnbull begins each day in his control tower by counting the empty ships that appear on the horizon in their almost futile search for cargo to carry. One morning this month he counted 55, then two days later, 69. Says...
...once we were in Iranian waters, the fear became apparent. The trip from Fujairah to Sirri Island takes 20 hours and the trip to Kharg at the northern end of thegulf another 27. We waited twelve hours at Sirri before the Iranians gave us permission to leave at a time when they felt the risk was lowest. At dinner that night the mood was somber, and people were silent. You could feel the tension growing. Everyone seemed to share the terrible feeling that, at twelve knots, we were going very slowly...
...made it back to Fujairah safely. As I left the ship, the captain said that he would be ready to go back to Iran in a month. That night I heard that a Turkish vessel we had passed on the return trip had been attacked by an Iraqi jet as it approached Kharg Island...