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The Solong shipment send after it collided with an oil tanker within the North Sea
The captain of a shipment send that collided with an oil tanker within the North Sea has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter.
Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, Russia, has been remanded in police custody to look at Hull Magistrates’ Court docket on Saturday, Humberside Police mentioned.
The Portuguese-flagged Solong and US-registered tanker Stena Immaculate crashed off the East Yorkshire coast at about 10:00 GMT on Monday.
Filipino nationwide Mark Angelo Pernia, 38, has been named because the team member of the Solong who’s lacking and presumed useless, the Crown Prosecution Provider mentioned.
Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Provider Particular Crime and Counter Terrorism Department, mentioned: “We’ve got authorized Humberside Police to rate a Russian nationwide when it comes to a collision involving two vessels within the North Sea off the east coast of England.”
Mr Ferguson added: “The Crown Prosecution Provider reminds all involved that legal complaints in contrast defendant at the moment are lively and that he has the fitting to an even trial.
“This can be very vital that there must be no reporting, observation or sharing of data on-line which might in anyway prejudice those complaints.”
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The Stena Immaculate used to be sporting 220,000 barrels of aviation gas on the time of the crash
The Marine Coincidence Investigation Department (MAIB) is attempting to ascertain the reason for the crash.
It mentioned preliminary inquiries discovered the Solong used to be travelling from Grangemouth to Rotterdam and had incessantly sailed the similar path.
“At 09:47 GMT it struck the Stena Immaculate that used to be at anchor off the doorway to the River Humber,” the MAIB mentioned.
On Friday, Stena Bulk mentioned salvage mavens from SMIT Salvage had effectively boarded Stena Immaculate to habits a radical evaluation.
It mentioned the salvage procedure used to be “essentially methodical, complete and ongoing” and would “require time to finish totally”.
Leader coastguard Paddy O’Callaghan mentioned “simplest small periodic wallet of fireside” on Solong remained, that have been “no longer inflicting undue worry”.
He added common aerial surveillance flights endured to watch the vessels and showed “there remains to be no motive for worry from air pollution” from both send.
All 23 team on board Stena Immaculate have been American citizens who’re lately in Grimsby and usually are repatriated sooner or later, the BBC understands.
