The shipping ship, which was crashed into an American military oil tanker off the northeastern coast of England on Monday, was carrying sodium cyanide, according to Maritime Intelligence Company and Lloyd charging magazine.
The collision set a large fire, dramatic rescue efforts and fears of environmental damage.
Ten o’clock in the morning local time (6 am East time), a Portuguese diluted container called The Solong was known as the oil tanker, which is called STANA IMMACULATE, which was in an anchor in the North Sea about 10 miles from the English coastal line, according to the vesselfinder ships.
The owner of the ship Ernst Ross said in a statement on Monday evening, with the exception of 14 members of the 14 crew who were safely brought to the beach.
By Monday night, local time, the “intense” research ended for the missing crew member, according to the British Coast Guard. The missing person was not found.
In his statement, Ernest Ross also said that both ships were “great damage to the impact of the collision and the subsequent fire.”
Crowley, an American logistical company that runs Stena Nurmacula, confirmed that all members of its crew were safe. A total of 36 patients have been treated by ambulance services after arriving at the beach, according to Alastair Smith, the head of the Lincolnchy Operations at East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS TRST.
Solong was carrying “an unknown quantity of alcohol and 15 sodium sodium containers”, Lloyd list mentioned. It is not clear whether cyanide has entered water.
Sodium cyanide, according to the National Institute for Safety and Health in the United States, releases severe hydrogen cyanide gas that interferes with the body’s ability to use oxygen.
According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), sodium cyanide can also turn into hydrogen cyanide in contact with water.
Videos of the accident showed black columns of smoke that rises in the sky and at least one of the ships flooded by fire.
STENA IMACULATE was carrying military fuel and marine diesel on its way to Killingholme, England, according to a spokesman for the Logistical Defense Agency (DLA), an agency in the US Department of Defense.
The carrier was in a long -term charter with DLA Energy, which manages and distributes oil and fuel products. Fuel was to be re -submitted to Killingholme before re -downloading and submitting fuel to sites in the Mediterranean.
Solong left the Scottish Grangemouth port on Sunday evening and headed to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the time of collision, according to Vesseelfnder.
Martin Boirez, CEO of Grimsby East, told CNN on Monday that he saw people brought to the beach and that ambulances were waiting for them to receive them.
It was not immediately clear how or why the collision occurred.
“It appears to be a puzzle, really, because all ships now have very advanced technical equipment to draw training courses and look at any obstacles or anything they should avoid,” said Boirez.
He added: “It is difficult to actually suggest what happened, unlike the fact that it should never happen.”
The head of the port said that the Branch of the Marine Accidents Investigation (MAIB), the Marine Agency and the Coast Guard (MCA) is likely to achieve the error that occurred.
“How did that ship continued to plow on the sidewalk? There should be some warning signs.” Boirez told CNN: “They should be able to discover it on the radar.”
Crowley said that there were “multiple explosions on the plane” after Solong Stena was shocked by Solong, adding that she “kept a rupture shipping tank containing Jet-A1 fuel” due to the collision.
She had been established off the English coast after leaving the Greek port of Agio Theodoroi last month, according to Vesselfinder.
Vesselfinder’s actual time data showed that a wave of high -speed ships and boats was seen moving towards the collision site at the time of the Coast Guard rescue.
Experts say jet fuel spills tend to influence the environment less than crude oil spills. The bacteria can land from jet fuel molecules more quickly, leading to faster decomposition.
“While the pictures seem to be disturbing, from the point of view of influencing the aquatic environment, it is less interested than if this crude oil was because most jet fuel will evaporate very quickly,” added Dr. Mark Hartl, a marine car poisoning scientist from the Maritime Biological and Biological Technology Center at Heriot-Watt University.
But Greenpeace UK said in a statement that it had “serious fears” that the goods on the ships, as well as the fuel inside, may pose a threat to marine life.
“With more information about what the ships were, we are very concerned about the multiple toxic risks that these chemicals for marine life can be posed.” Paul Johnston, a great scientist in Greenpis research laboratories at the University of Exter, said that jet fuel that entered the water near a land of reproduction of the port pigs for fish and other marine creatures.
Johnston urged the authorities to place measures in place to contain any toxic substances. “We must hope that an environmental catastrophe will be avoided,” he said.
Antoinette Radford from CNN and Urin Lieberman contributed to the reports.
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