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Hope we're not looking at a spillage; sea birds are suffering badly already from bird flu, the last thing we need is oil slicks coming into the breeding season.
Feels like back in the day oil spills were common and every other week on Blue Peter they’d be using fairy liquid to clean up oil-soaked birds. Hopefully this one not as bad.
Looking at the footage, it's either a massive tanker or the contents have started to spill out and burn on the surface already. Doesn't look good at all.
Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.
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Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 13:36 - Mar 10 with 2873 views
Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 13:36 - Mar 10 by soupytwist
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Looks like someone wasn't paying enough attention on the Solong, which seems to have barreled into the anchored tanker at about 16 knots. Eek.
Wonder what our resident doyen of the high seas makes of it?
How do you not see a huge tanker in front of you? Unless visibility was poor at the time. Even so, all these ships have radar to help them avoid bumping into things.
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Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 13:53 - Mar 10 by blueasfook
How do you not see a huge tanker in front of you? Unless visibility was poor at the time. Even so, all these ships have radar to help them avoid bumping into things.
Basically by not having someone looking at the things you need to look at, like the radar screens and what's out the window.
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Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 14:22 - Mar 10 with 2678 views
Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 14:22 - Mar 10 by NthQldITFC
Surely there are deafening early warning alarms and a redundancy of automated watch systems though?
Is there any suspicion of a deliberate act? (That's a question, not an assumption.)
Given that a merchant ship managed to bash into the side of an actual US aircraft carrier off the mouth of the Suez Canal recently I can only assume that these things aren't entirely foolproof.
And it seems a bit of a weird thing to decide to do deliberately, even if the tanker has links to the US military.
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Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 14:40 - Mar 10 with 2532 views
Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 14:35 - Mar 10 by soupytwist
Given that a merchant ship managed to bash into the side of an actual US aircraft carrier off the mouth of the Suez Canal recently I can only assume that these things aren't entirely foolproof.
And it seems a bit of a weird thing to decide to do deliberately, even if the tanker has links to the US military.
Knowing Trump I'm sure this will lead to a tirade and demand of land from Portugal.
Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 14:22 - Mar 10 by NthQldITFC
Surely there are deafening early warning alarms and a redundancy of automated watch systems though?
Is there any suspicion of a deliberate act? (That's a question, not an assumption.)
The investigation will be interesting for sure, quite a lot of things can go wrong with big floating objects ion poor visibility. Anyone remember the European Gateway sitting partially underwater off Felixstowe in the early 80s?*
A deliberate ramming is unlikely, "some people" have been jamming and spoofing GPS in the Baltic which will definitely cause collisions at some stage but seems unlikely this far out.
Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 13:53 - Mar 10 by blueasfook
How do you not see a huge tanker in front of you? Unless visibility was poor at the time. Even so, all these ships have radar to help them avoid bumping into things.
I suppose you could say solong to that Portuguese skippers career. Added.. just read that it's jet fuel in the tanker, not crude. Blimey.
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Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 16:12 - Mar 10 with 2276 views
Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 15:12 - Mar 10 by Steve_M
The investigation will be interesting for sure, quite a lot of things can go wrong with big floating objects ion poor visibility. Anyone remember the European Gateway sitting partially underwater off Felixstowe in the early 80s?*
A deliberate ramming is unlikely, "some people" have been jamming and spoofing GPS in the Baltic which will definitely cause collisions at some stage but seems unlikely this far out.
*A car ferry that hit collided with another ship.
I do remember given it was visible from the beach at Felixstowe.
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Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 18:23 - Mar 10 with 2034 views
Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 14:22 - Mar 10 by NthQldITFC
Surely there are deafening early warning alarms and a redundancy of automated watch systems though?
Is there any suspicion of a deliberate act? (That's a question, not an assumption.)
I guess one of the tankers only had the speed and turning circle of <insert name of favourite ITFC player, that people thought was slow and wide to turn, but ended up in the premier league here>
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Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 19:35 - Mar 10 with 1947 views
It is very easy for watchkeepers to get distracted by paperwork and other administrative duties whilst on the bridge.
It’s been fairly foggy up these parts the last couple of days, and then you would have to ask whether 16 knots was considered a safe speed as per Rule 6 of the International Rules for Preventing Collisions At Sea.
I’ve also been on ships that do not have an auto bell and gong which is the fog signal for a vessel at anchor. Which has meant you either do not sound a fog signal, you sound Romeo using the ships whistle, or you use additional manpower to sound the bell and gong manually.
When the bairns go to bed I’ll get my nautical charts of that area out, it will be interesting to see if the Immaculate was in an official anchorage area or if she was anchored north east of the deep draught pilot station.
Certainly that would also raise the question as to why the Solong planned a passage so close to where traffic could be encountered, especially traffic picking up or dropping off their pilots. Planning a passage has 4 stages, Appraise, Plan, Execute, Monitor. It could be argued that none of these were successfully carried out.
Overall, the standards of watchkeeping has certainly gotten worse over the years, with an over reliance on electronic aids to navigation and people being distracted by mobile phones.
Also the Immaculate should have taken all reasonable measures to avoid the collision. This could have included paying out more chain, heaving up, did she make her engines ready for manoeuvre before the collision?, did she try to hail the Solong?
A friend of mine is a pilot on the Humber, I will ask him for the latest from their side.
Oil tanker collision in North Sea on 13:53 - Mar 10 by blueasfook
How do you not see a huge tanker in front of you? Unless visibility was poor at the time. Even so, all these ships have radar to help them avoid bumping into things.
Radar isn’t infallible, and needs replacement parts to keep operating properly. Also the settings of the radar can be changed, and if you’re not careful it won’t show any targets.
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