
Smoke and flames rise from a collision between oil tanker and a cargo ship off the northeastern coast of England in this picture obtained by Reuters on March 10, 2025. — Reuters
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Britain’s coastal guards have said that the search for a missing crew member has ended after a cargo plane opened in a US military chartered tanker carrying a jet fuel in the North Sea on Monday.
The HM Coast Guard rescued 36 staff members from a stainless tanker and a solong container vessel, one of which was taken to the hospital.
“After a widespread search of the missing staff member, Matthew Attockson, the divisional commander of the HM Coast Guard, said,” A Solong staff member remains unaccounted for and the search is not over. “
The images showed a large amount of coarse, black smoke and flames rising from the scene at a distance of 10 miles (16 km) from the coast of East England, which raised concerns about “numerous toxic risks.”
Steina -based operators Crooli said in a statement that Stena’s flawless tanker was “anchored from the North Sea coast near Hill … (and) the container ship was hit by Solong”, Stena’s US -based operators Karoli said in a statement.
According to Jallian Morris, a command spokesman for the US Department of Defense, a civil -credit ships operating, Steina was on a short -term US military charter, with a military spectacular command with a military seafood command with a small -term US military charter.
Curly said the effects of the collision broke the “tanker” containing A1-jet fuel and stimulated the fire, with “reports of release” with fuel.
According to the Lloyd List Information Service, it had about 220,000 barrels of jet fuel, while Solonging was carrying 15 containers of sodium synonym, but it is not known whether a firearms compound was leaked.
The Coast Guard said that the two ships were also set on fire 12 hours after the collision.
A spokesman for the British Prime Minister’s Kerry Starr, called the situation “extremely related”.
Swedish owner of the tanker, Stena Bulk, told AFP that all members of the staff riding in Stena were confirmed to survive.
‘Toxic risks’
“Our inspectors and support staff team is collecting evidence and a preliminary review of the accident to determine our next steps,” said a spokesman for the government’s maritime accident investigation branch.
“The good news is not permanent, it is not like crude oil,” told AFP, the founder of the Environmental Risk Advisory Group, Ask Advisory Group, Iveer Vince told AFP.
He added, “Most of this will become very fast and those who do not vapor will deteriorate very fast through microorganisms, adding, although it has been warned that” it will kill fish and other creatures “.
“We are extremely concerned about the many toxic risks that these chemicals can pose to marine life,” said Paul Johnsston, a senior scientist at the University of Experm.
He added that Jet Fuel entered the water near the ground for ports of the ports, sodium cyanide “is a very toxic chemical that can cause severe damage”.
Humber traffic is suspended
According to the Associate British Ports (ABP), which operates in the ports of Hill and Amongham in the region, all movement in the Indian Ocean was “suspended” which flows into the North Sea.
For the maritime emergency, the German Central Command said it was also sending a vessel that is capable of recovering fire and oil.
The alarm was raised at 0948 GMT about the accident near the Port City of Hill, East Yorkshire.
The Coast Guard helicopter, a plane, four cities and other nearby ships were part of a major rescue operation, the UK Coast Guard said.
“I do not understand how the two ships can collide,” said Paul Lankaster, a former ship, Graemesby, a native of Gramesby.
“There must have been a major problem of engineering.”
Rare
The clash in the Indian Ocean remains unusual.
In October 2023, two cargo ships, Vaeat and Poles, collided near the Heligland island of Germany in the North.
Three people are killed and two others are still missing and are considered dead.
In October 2015, the filter starfater, with 125 tonnes of diesel and 427 tonnes of fuel oil, drowned after colliding with the Al Oriq tanker at a distance of eight kilometers (five miles) from the coast of Belgium.