North Sea oil tanker owner praises 'heroic' crew

The owners of an lipid tanker progressive successful a collision with a cargo vessel successful the North Sea person praised the "heroic action" of unit for limiting the damage.

The Stena Immaculate and cargo vessel Solong collided disconnected the East Yorkshire seashore astatine astir 10:00 GMT connected Monday. One unit subordinate of the Solong, Mark Angelo Pernia, is missing, presumed dead.

In a statement, the tanker's owners, Crowley, said 17,515 of 220,000 barrels of Jet-A1 substance had been mislaid "due to the interaction and fire".

Vladimir Motin, skipper of the Solong, appeared astatine Hull Magistrates' Court connected Saturday charged with gross negligence manslaughter and was remanded successful custody to look earlier the Central Criminal Court successful London connected 14 April.

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) is trying to establish the origin of the crash.

Crowley said unit ensured "fire monitors were progressive successful bid to supply bound cooling h2o to the adjacent cargo tanks".

"Their heroic enactment constricted harm to lone the cargo tanks impacted," added Cal Hayden, the company's vice president.

"We stay afloat committed to supporting the UK effect and immoderate biology remediation."

Crowley confirmed salvage experts SMIT Salvage was continuing its onboard appraisal and added HM Coastguard's presumption remained that determination "continues to beryllium nary origin for interest for contamination from the tanker".