A container carrier collided with an oil tanker in the United States off the northeast coast of England, according to emergency stakeholders, who rushed to the scene on Monday morning. The initial images shared by the BBC have shown that thick fire and black smoke rising from ships, and local authorities have said that a number of people had been taken to hospitals in the region.
The British Coast Guard said that it “coordinated the emergency response to the reports of a collision between an oil tanker and a cargo ship off the coast of the East Yorkshire”, and that an alarm was raised for the first time at 9:48 am.
The rescue helicopters were in the region and the rescue canoes were deployed from a number of stations along the coast, as well as ships with a “fire -fighting capacity,” the Coast Guard said in a statement.
Although the Coast Guard did not confirm if a oil spill had taken place, it said that it evaluated “the probable response of the required counter-pollution”.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a charity that coordinates rescue canoes around the British coast, said that there were reports “that a number of people had abandoned ships after a collision, and that there were fires on the two ships”.
The information of Marine Traffic, a website that follows the ships, seemed to show the Immaculate STENA, an oil tanker and the solong, a container carrier, on an intersection path surrounded by emergency intervention ships right off the coast of the mouth of the Humber river, near Hull.
According to the tracker, the Stena Immaculate, an American flag ship, was anchored at the time of the accident, which raised how the two ships had managed to collitte during the hours of clarity. The Solong, sailing under the Portuguese flag, was heading for Rotterdam in the Netherlands after leaving a port in Scotland on Sunday, according to the Tracker ship.
Erik Hanell, Managing Director of Stena Bulk, who is co -owner of the STENA Immaculate, told the BBC that the whole crew of this oil tanker was taken into account and safe.
Martyn Boyers, the director general of the port of Grimsby East, spoke to Sky News, a British news channel, and said that the region had been misty Monday morning, which could have contributed to visibility problems. He said that at least 32 people had been brought to the port of Grimsby and that some of them had been taken by ambulance to local hospitals. We don’t know how many people were injured.
“In total, 32 victims were made by the port, and there was a line of ambulances waiting to take them to Princess Diana hospital, which they still do now,” he told Sky News. He added: “This morning it was very misty and the fog never lifted. So I imagine that at that time, when the accident took place, there would have been fog. »»
A spokesperson for the ambulance service East Midlands said that he had sent “multiple resources”, including a response team from the Dangerous Zone, to the port of Grimsby.
It is a story in development. Come back for updates.
