The Russian captain of a boat concerned within the North Sea crash has seemed in court docket.
Vladimir Motin, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, used to be remanded into custody after showing at Hull Magistrates’ Court docket on Saturday.
The 59-year-old has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter.
In a glass-front dock for the 35-minute lengthy listening to, Motin heard how the Solong collided with the desk bound US-flagged oil tanker, the Stena Immaculate, on Monday, off the coast of Yorkshire.
There used to be no software made for bail and no pleas had been entered.
Motin, with the assistance of a translator, handiest spoke to substantiate his identify, date of start and that he didn’t have an cope with in the United Kingdom.
He’ll seem on the Previous Bailey on 14 April.
One member of the Solong group is misplaced at sea, regarded as useless.
He has been named by way of the Crown Prosecution Carrier as 38-year-old Filipino nationwide Mark Angelo Pernia.
After the collision, there used to be an explosion at the ahead deck of the Solong, the place Mr Pernia used to be running.
His fellow group participants attempted to search out him sooner than evacuating, however weren’t ready to take action.
The crash came about about 13 miles off the Yorkshire coast and noticed dozens of folks pressured to desert the vessels as they stuck hearth.
Symbol: Pic: AP/Dan Kitwood/Pool Symbol: Smoke from the collision between the 2 ships within the North Sea noticed above the clouds. Pic: Reuters/Paige Langley
A big seek and rescue operation used to be introduced and effectively introduced 36 folks from each ships again ashore.
The Portuguese-flagged Solong have been crusing from Grangemouth, in Scotland, to Rotterdam, within the Netherlands, on the time of the collision.
It used to be to begin with feared to be wearing sodium cyanide, however the German proprietor Ernst Russ mentioned 4 packing containers at the vessel had up to now been wearing the chemical.
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The Stena Immaculate remains to be at anchor on the similar level the place the collision came about.
In the meantime, the Solong drifted south of this location, however each vessels had been mentioned to be “solid”, with salvors having boarded to evaluate the wear.
The Stena Immaculate have been wearing 220,000 barrels of jet gas in 16 segregated tanks – a minimum of one in every of which used to be “ruptured” throughout the collision, US transport company Crowley, who operates the send, mentioned.
Nevertheless it mentioned the jet gas spill used to be having a “restricted” have an effect on.
Maximum of it had burned off, and there have been no indicators of additional leaks from both send.
Investigations are nonetheless ongoing, these days led by way of the Marine Twist of fate Investigations Department, to ascertain the reason for the collision.
The coastguard may be proceeding to observe the ships in case they unencumber extra air pollution.
