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New footage shows a massive hole on the port side of a U.S. oil tanker that was struck by a container ship on Monday morning in the North Sea, off the coast of East Yorkshire. By Tuesday morning, the blaze on the tanker appeared to be mostly extinguished.
BBC News released live aerial footage earlier from the incident area, showing the crippled tanker Stena Immaculate. Video revealed a massive hole on the vessel’s port side, caused when the container ship Solong plowed into the tanker, which was carrying jet fuel for the U.S. Navy.
Watch the video here.
Sal Mercogliano, a professor at Campbell University and the host of the What Is Going On With Shipping? show on YouTube, commented on the maritime incident, noting, “It does not appear that Solong targeted the US flag tanker.”
Mercogliano continued: “This looks like the ship was on an automated setting with …
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