The Russian captain of the Solong container send concerned within the North Sea crash has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter.
Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, has been remanded in police custody and is because of seem at Hull Magistrates Court docket on Saturday, Humberside Police stated.
On Monday morning, about 13 miles off the East Yorkshire coast close to Withernsea, the Solong sailed into the US-registered oil tanker Stena Immaculate, which used to be sporting jet gas for the United States Army.
One member of the Solong team is thought to be lifeless. He has been named through the Crown Prosecution Carrier as 38-year-old Filipino nationwide Mark Angelo Pernia.
Symbol: The MV Solong shipment send following Monday’s North Sea crash. Pic: AP
Solong ‘had 5 Russians amongst team’
5 Russians were a few of the team on board the Solong, Russian state company TASS quoted the Russian embassy in London as pronouncing, Reuters reported.
Within the fast aftermath of the collision, dozens of other people have been pressured to desert the vessels as they stuck fireplace.
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The coastguard rescued 36 team contributors after the alarm used to be raised at 9.48am on Monday.
The Stena Immaculate, operated through US delivery company Crowley, used to be desk bound and at anchor whilst looking forward to a berth to develop into to be had on the Port of Killingholme, at the River Humber, when it used to be struck through the smaller Solong, inflicting massive fires and explosions – the smoke from which used to be visual from house.
Symbol: The United States oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate after the collision. Pic: PA
The Solong were crusing from Grangemouth in Scotland to Rotterdam within the Netherlands on the time.
It used to be to begin with feared it used to be sporting sodium cyanide however the German proprietor Ernst Russ stated 4 bins at the vessel had up to now been sporting the chemical.
All 23 other people on board the oil tanker Stena Immaculate have been accounted for, in conjunction with 13 of the 14 team contributors of the Solong.
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Stena Bulk, the landlord of the Immaculate, stated on Wednesday that the 23 contributors of its team have been all American and in “just right well being”. Crowley stated they have been staying in Grimsby and being supported.
The Stena Immaculate remains to be at anchor on the level the place the collision came about.
The Solong drifted south of that location, to some extent the place it might be observed off the Lincolnshire coast.
Salvage corporations boarded the 2 vessels on Thursday and have been sporting out preliminary injury tests. Small fires have been nonetheless being reported at the Solong’s best deck, the coastguard stated.
Police stated intensive traces of inquiry have been proceeding nevertheless it used to be taking time given the vessels have been nonetheless at sea and there have been a lot of witnesses.
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0:33 Second shipment send and oil tanker collide
Environmental affect no longer as critical as to begin with feared
The Stena Immaculate were sporting 220,000 barrels of jet gas in 16 segregated shipment tanks – a minimum of one in all which “used to be ruptured” all over the collision, Crowley stated.
Nevertheless it added that the jet gas spill used to be having a “restricted” affect.
The possible environmental affect appears to be much less critical than to begin with feared.
Many of the spilt jet gas has evaporated or burned off, Crowley stated in an X publish. There turns out to were no lack of engine gas from both vessel and each are anticipated to stay afloat in spite of a gaping hollow within the aspect of the Stena Immaculate and previous fears the Solong would sink.
The Solong, which used to be drifting, has now been secured through tugs.
