Oil Tanker on fire after collision with cargo ship (East Yorkshire Coast)

The Funktopus said:
Fatigue would be my guess. Coastal cargo and container feeder ships’s like Solong run frequent, short passages in busy waters, with constant pilotage, mooring and cargo ops. The crews often work 6 hours on, 6 hours off shifts, which makes it impossible to get 6 hours of continuous sleep, especially when companies also expect you to do unpaid “overtime” as part of your contract. A few weeks of that and you’re absolutely hollowed out.

Never did it myself, as I did 10 years as an engineering officer deep sea on tankers and LNG, but a friend of mine from college did his 1st trip qualified around Europe as a deck officer on small coastal bulk carriers, and it sounded absolutely horrendous.
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I never got why 6 on 6 off when 12 on 12 off allows for a decent period of rest.
 
14 crew on the Solong, with one still missing. It was carrying sodium cyanide along with other cargo so the environmental fallout could be quite nasty.
 
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Uther said:
14 crew on the tanker, with one still missing. It was carrying sodium cyanide along with other cargo so the environmental fallout could be quite nasty.
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Think we've got a good idea at work who it was chartered to - owner and potential charters are being very quiet.
 
15 containers of Sodium Cyanide which affects oxygen use in the body. A small 300mg dose orally is fatal.

Combine that with change of wind direction this week, lets hope its all contained.
 
Bobcat said:
Don't most ships/boats have AIS tracking onboard, certainly commercial i would thought something like that is mandatory, what did they do sleep through that kind of alarm going off giving warning they were on track for a collision with a stationary ship ......
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Yes they do, but still relies on human intervention
 
Bobcat said:
Don't most ships/boats have AIS tracking onboard, certainly commercial i would thought something like that is mandatory, what did they do sleep through that kind of alarm going off giving warning they were on track for a collision with a stationary ship ......
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AIS has nothing to do with it and is not used for tracking ships onboard. They use radars and ECDIS systems to navigate.
 
Find it hard to find out what the situation is, have either of them sank? With the Solong carrying hazardous goods, the containers with the sodium cyanide in them should be tucked away, deep down in the holds to keep them out of the way. I’d imagine if she’s still afloat, just with her bow stoved in from the impact, her cargo should be largely intact.

Ship’s are designed with a collision bulkhead, with the bow designed to take a head on impact without comproming buoyancy for the rest of the ship, so if she t-boned the Stena Immaculate, she should have come out of it much better off. Then of course there’s how the sodium cyanide would be packed, which would probably be in plastic bags, in sealed drums inside a container.
 
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The Funktopus said:
Find it hard to find out what the situation is, have either of them sank? With the Solong carrying hazardous goods, the containers with the sodium cyanide in them should be tucked away, deep down in the holds to keep them out of the way. I’d imagine if she’s still afloat, just with her bow stoved in from the impact, her cargo should be largely intact.

Ship’s are designed with a collision bulkhead, with the bow designed to take a head on impact without comproming buoyancy for the rest of the ship, so if she t-boned the Stena Immaculate, she should have come out of it much better off. Then of course there’s how the sodium cyanide would be packed, which would probably be in plastic bags, in sealed drums inside a container.
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Not had anything through so far on a sinking but given the time the updates might be slow.
From what I saw earlier it looked like a t-boning.
 
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