Cargo ship and oil tanker have collided off the East Yorkshire coast. I just prey that this is not an environmental disaster. We have a massive population of Gulls and recently returning Puffins above Bridlington at Flamborough and Bempton. Seals are currently on certain beaches and regular sightings of Dolphin pods.
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Not to forget the Spurn Point nature reserve and the ramping up of visitors to the resorts along that part of the East coast.
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Tanker was carrying Jet fuel for the US forces, so not a heavy or crude oil incident of Torry Canyon proportions.
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Do we know yet if it was in or out of the Humber? There are 3 refineries on the Humber bank.
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According to Vesselfinder, last POC was in Greece and it was bound for Killinghome.
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>> According to Vesselfinder, last POC was in Greece and it was bound for Killinghome.
Does Greece have the facility to produce jet fuel?
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>> Does Greece have the facility to produce jet fuel?
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The port from which it is reported to have sailed has a multi-purpose refinery attached which describes itself as (one of) the most sophisticated in Europe, capable of producing a wide range of outputs.
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The tanker should have been offloading right next to two refineries in Sth Killinghome - Prax Lindsey and Phillips 66.
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Ukrainian captain on the Solong?
("Solong, and thanks for all the fish")
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How on earth can a a modern ship with radar and all navigation aid fail to notice a 600 foot long vessel lying at anchor directly ahead?
I suppose it could have had some sort of mechanical failure losing steering.
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>> I suppose it could have had some sort of mechanical failure losing steering.
I think the first focus of the MAIB will be on that!!
Reduced visibility but radar and fact the the tanker was in a recognised anchorage should have been big protections.
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Knowing a few people who've been to sea, the captain standing on the bridge rat-bottomed cannot be ruled out.
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>> Knowing a few people who've been to sea, the captain standing on the bridge rat-bottomed
>> cannot be ruled out.
Several MAIB reports in the last few years suggest such issues are not unknown today.
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>>Knowing a few people who've been to sea, the captain standing on the bridge rat-bottomed
>> cannot be ruled out.
>>Several MAIB reports in the last few years suggest such issues are not unknown today.
Indeed. The following incident may not be due to a pilot being "rat-bottomed", but it sounds like a pretty serious case of carelessness where one man's failure to do his job properly could have resulted in multiple fatalities. (Or are there systems in place that would have prevented that? 235m sounds pretty damn close to disaster to me for a machine moving at several hundred miles per hour.)
"A pilot has been suspended after a jet carrying about 200 people flew too close to a mountain.
Captain Paul Elsworth was in charge of an EasyJet flight travelling from Manchester airport to Hurghada airport in Egypt last month.
As the Airbus A320 descended, the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) — a safety feature warning of a potential collision — was triggered in the cockpit. The pilot was forced to pull up the jet and level it.
A review found the jet was just 235 metres from the mountain at the time — normal protocol is to clear mountain ranges by about 2,000 metres."
(from www.thetimes.com/uk/transport/article/easyjet-pilot-suspended-near-miss-mountain-egypt-lq53q2wbg)
Other sources point out that this flight had been descending at an unsafe rate of 4,928ft per minute before corrective action was taken; this descent speed is regarded as dangerously excessive. The forward speed of the aircraft has also been said to have been excessive at the time.
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Error in the web link to the Times, probably due to the closing bracket.
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Some discussion here.
www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/664891-easyjet-flight-seconds-disaster-when-plane-almost-hit-mountain.html
The story, basically, is that there wasn't a plane crash. It will be interesting to see the incident report if there ever is one.
No doubt he will get a severe wigging for it. Coming within 235 metres sounds more dramatic than 800', which is dramatic enough. But GPWS worked and was heeded.
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The captain of a cargo ship arrested after a collision with a tanker in the North Sea is a Russian national, the ship's owner has confirmed.
Humberside Police said the 59-year-old man remained in custody after being arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter on Tuesday.
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Special Maritime Operation.....
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>> The captain of a cargo ship arrested after a collision with a tanker in the
>> North Sea is a Russian national, the ship's owner has confirmed.
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A Russian you say, hmmmmmm!
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>> A Russian you say, hmmmmmm!
Not only that, but a Russian delivering jet fuel for US forces. But as Trump's such a good friend of Putin, it shouldn't make any difference.
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Last edited by: zippy on Wed 12 Mar 25 at 12:29
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DO you mean they were both |Russian?
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Who, Putin and Trump?......
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>> DO you mean they were both |Russian?
It's the Captain of the cargo ship, registered in Portugal, who is stated to be Russian.
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>> >> DO you mean they were both |Russian?
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>> It's the Captain of the cargo ship, registered in Portugal, who is stated to be
>> Russian.
Thats a fabrication by warlord NATO countries.
Lavrov.
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>> Thats a fabrication by warlord NATO countries.
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>> Lavrov.
Either he has a Russian passport or he doesn't.
Are they saying the one produced is a fake?
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He was merely on a tour of cathedral cities
Lavrov
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>> >> Thats a fabrication by warlord NATO countries.
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>> >> Lavrov.
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>> Either he has a Russian passport or he doesn't.
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>> Are they saying the one produced is a fake?
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One suspects that Zedo posted in jest. ;-)
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>> One suspects that Zedo posted in jest. ;-)
And like the best jests its plausibility is key.
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Lates reports state that cargo vessel was carrying sodium cyanide.
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I'm not buying anything from the visiting Grimsby Fish van for a bit, then.
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Sadly one missing.
Given the fire and smoke I thought that there may have been more so I guess that's a good result if you see what I mean.
Now any possible pollution needs to be dealt with and the faulty party should pay for it.
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The Telegraph is not ruling out foul play:
"Foul play not ruled out after US oil tanker crash in North Sea"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/10/oil-tanker-cargo-ship-collide-north-sea/
So my wildly made up conspiracy theory is:
Ukrainian marines boarded the cargo ship in the middle of the night, poured vodka down the captains throat, tied him to his chair and set the autopilot to ram the US fuel ship in an act of revenge for having supplies cut off.
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No Afraid the Sun has the answer, Headline reads:....
"Oil tanker collision 'down to incompetence', says expert"
Thats so insightful
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"Expert" is tabloid-speak for anyone, no matter how ignorant, who has an opinion on a subject. Tabloids find "experts" on any topic; they are extremely handy for producing click-bait headlines.
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