The Russian captain of a ship concerned within the North Sea crash has appeared in court docket.
Vladimir Motin, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, was remanded into custody after showing at Hull Magistrates’ Court docket on Saturday.
The 59-year-old has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter.
In a glass-front dock for the 35-minute lengthy listening to, Motin heard how the Solong collided with the US-flagged oil tanker, the Stena Immaculate, on Monday, off the coast of Yorkshire.
There was no software made for bail and no pleas had been entered.
Motin will seem on the Outdated Bailey on 14 April.
One member of the Solong crew is regarded as lifeless.
He has been named by the Crown Prosecution Service as 38-year-old Filipino nationwide Mark Angelo Pernia.
After the collision, there was an explosion on the ahead deck of the Solong, the place Mr Pernia was working.
His fellow crew members tried to seek out him earlier than evacuating, however weren’t in a position to take action.
The crash came about about 13 miles off the Yorkshire coast and noticed dozens of individuals pressured to desert the vessels as they caught fireplace.
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Smoke from the collision between the 2 ships within the North Sea seen above the clouds.
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A big search and rescue operation was launched and efficiently introduced 36 folks from each ships again ashore.
The Solong had been crusing from Grangemouth in Scotland to Rotterdam within the Netherlands on the time of the collision.
It was initially feared to be carrying sodium cyanide, however the German proprietor Ernst Russ stated 4 containers on the vessel had beforehand been carrying the chemical.
The Stena Immaculate remains to be at anchor on the similar level the place the collision occurred.
In the meantime, the Solong drifted south of this location, however each vessels had been stated to be “stable”, with salvors having boarded to evaluate the harm.
The Stena Immaculate had been carrying 220,000 barrels of jet gasoline in 16 segregated tanks – at the least one in all which was “ruptured” in the course of the collision, US transport agency Crowley, who operates the ship, stated.
Nevertheless it stated the jet gasoline spill was having a “limited” impression.
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