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The police investigating a collision of two ships in the North Sea arrested a 59 -year -old man on Monday for suspicion of gross negligence.
Humberside Police said it was working with the Maritime and Coast agency to find out why the containers of Solong containers collided with a tanker carrying American military fuel, the wall of the Immaculate.
“After the questions my team made, we arrested a 59 -year -old man for suspicion of gross negligence in connection with collision.” This follows at the end of the HM Coastguard search operations for a missing Solong crew, ”said the main superintendent Craig Nicholson.
“The man arrested remains in custody at the moment, while the questions are taking place, and we continue to talk to all involved to create the full circumstances of the incident,” he added.
Solong is still on fire and is likely to sink, the British naval minister said on Tuesday. The container boat was still burning and on Monday morning it was driving south on Tuesday after the anchored Immaculate Tanker Sen of the Immaculate Tanker from the British coast.
The Tug ships were deployed to prevent Solong from hitting the coast, although HM Coastguard found that it was unlikely to stay above the water. After the authorities have been working on the fires on both ships since Monday, Blaze on board the wall of the Immaculate Tanker “significantly reduced”, the British Coast Guard said just after noon on Tuesday.
The ship, which carried up to 220,000 barrels of fuel for the US Army, suffered according to Crowley's reservoir to the reservoir that drives the ship.
Measures against pollution have been introduced and both vessels were carefully monitored for structural integrity, Kane said. The accident, which also left one crew member, assumed the dead, aroused fears that it could develop in an environmental disaster.
The search mission of one crew Solong was dismissed and it was “our work prerequisite” that the sailor died, Kane said. HM Coastguard added that all 36 other sailors from both ships were brought safely to the shore. He also said that the crew member was not taken to the hospital, but was treated on the scene, unlike what the Coast Guard had previously said.
The source of the fire was the fuel transported by Steno Immaculate, owned by Sweden based in Sweden, which was thrown by the Sen Bulk Marine Services, Kane added.
The authorities were still investigating how the collision occurred. The information from Marine Traffic, the locations for watching vessels seemed to show Solong, which is owned by Germany Ernst Russ, and plowed at the wall at a spotless speed, while the tanker was at the anchor.
“For the vessel is incredible.”[and]This is a secret, ”said Martyn Boyers, CEO of Port of Grimsby East, who helped in the rescue effort. Saveing vessels and environmental cleaning was “certainly a big work”, he added.
Ernst Russ denied earlier reports that claimed that solong containers were loaded with sodium cyanide, which is a potentially highly dangerous chemical. He said that a ship that is able to carry 803 20ft containers had “four empty containers that previously contained a dangerous chemical, and these containers will continue to be monitored”.
Melanie Onn, Labor for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes, said that the locals were afraid of the potential environmental impact and added that volunteers were identified who could help save wild animals if necessary. She said that there were also questions about the impact on air quality and if it could become a problem.
However, the British health safety agency pointed out that the risk of public health on the coast has been “currently considered very low,” said HM Coastguard.
He added that the Ministry of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs also “confirmed that the quality of air at the ground level is currently in normal level for weather conditions”.
