This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Polish specialized maritime portal portalmorski.pl.

“The Russian vessel Ruslana was on the verge of running aground off the coast of Sobeshevsky Island.

Intervention was required among other Border Guards, ”the statement reads.

According to the portal, the captain of the ship and two other crew members were allegedly intoxicated.

The captain recorded about almost a ppm of alcohol in the blood, the other two people - about 1.5 ppm.

Earlier it became known that the ship "Akademik Ioffe" of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences was detained in Denmark at the suit of a third party.