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WATCH: Tanker Caught in Hurricane Ophelia Off Ireland

WATCH: Tanker Caught in Hurricane Ophelia Off Ireland

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October 19, 2017

Check out this video showing a tanker battling the elements off Cork, Ireland as remnants of Hurricane Ophelia hit the island as one of the strongest storms in decades.

The Port of Cork was closed to all shipping operations on Monday due to the storm, but by Tuesday it was back up and running as normal.  

Ophelia became the 10th hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season on October 11, and the storm took a rare path towards the United Kingdom from near the Azores. 

Here’s another one presumably from the same ship:

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