International US-flagged Aviation Fuel Tanker and Portuguese Container Ship on Fire after Collision off East Yorkshire

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Update Six


The captain of a cargo ship that collided with an oil tanker in 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 appear at Hull Magistrates Court on Saturday, Humberside Police said.

Filipino national Mark Angelo Pernia, 38, has been named as the crew member of the Solong who is missing and presumed dead, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division,

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said: "We have authorised Humberside Police to charge a Russian national in relation to a collision involving two vessels in the North Sea off the east coast of England."
 
Update Seven


The Russian captain of a container ship that crashed into a tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military was alone on his ship’s bridge, investigators said.

Vladimir Motin, 59,

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was the sole crew member on the bridge of the MV Solong when it crashed into the MV Stena Immaculate around five miles from Hull last month.

Millions of plastic beads, known as nurdles, were washed ashore in Norfolk after being released from a container aboard the Solong.

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said in a preliminary report: 'The visibility in the area north of the Humber light float was reported to be patchy and varying between 0.25 nautical miles (nm) and 2.0nm.

Neither Solong nor Stena Immaculate had a dedicated lookout on the bridge.

At [7am], Solong’s master returned to the bridge and took over the watch as the lone watchkeeper.'

A watchkeeper is responsible for the safe navigation of a vessel whereas the role of a lookout is to continuously watch the sea.

Captain Motin, of St Petersburg, has been charged with causing manslaughter by gross negligence after the presumed death of Mr Pernia, who was seen working in the bows of the Solong before the allision. The Russian is due to stand trial next January.

After the accident, the Solong was towed to Aberdeen, arriving on the 28th of March.

Crowley, the maritime company managing the Stena Immaculate, said last week the tanker would be towed to Newcastle in early April.
 
Update Seven


The Russian captain of a container ship that crashed into a tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military was alone on his ship’s bridge, investigators said.

Vladimir Motin, 59,

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was the sole crew member on the bridge of the MV Solong when it crashed into the MV Stena Immaculate around five miles from Hull last month.

Millions of plastic beads, known as nurdles, were washed ashore in Norfolk after being released from a container aboard the Solong.

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said in a preliminary report: 'The visibility in the area north of the Humber light float was reported to be patchy and varying between 0.25 nautical miles (nm) and 2.0nm.

Neither Solong nor Stena Immaculate had a dedicated lookout on the bridge.

At [7am], Solong’s master returned to the bridge and took over the watch as the lone watchkeeper.'

A watchkeeper is responsible for the safe navigation of a vessel whereas the role of a lookout is to continuously watch the sea.

Captain Motin, of St Petersburg, has been charged with causing manslaughter by gross negligence after the presumed death of Mr Pernia, who was seen working in the bows of the Solong before the allision. The Russian is due to stand trial next January.

After the accident, the Solong was towed to Aberdeen, arriving on the 28th of March.

Crowley, the maritime company managing the Stena Immaculate, said last week the tanker would be towed to Newcastle in early April.

Called it. Shitty bridge management.
 
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