Over the weekend, Kamchatka locals woke up to discover foul-smelling, contaminated water and dozens of dead sea creatures littered across the shore of Khalaktyrsky beach in Russia’s Far East and reported it to the authorities. Excessive amounts of phenol and oil products were detected in the sea waters along the Pacific coastline of the Kamchatka regional beach, where, according to local residents, hordes of sea creatures had been washed ashore. The Russian Investigative Committee began a procedural probe into the information about the mass die-off of marine life on Kamchatka’s shores.