The captain of a shipment send that collided with an oil tanker within the North Sea has seemed in court docket charged with gross negligence manslaughter over the loss of life of a group member.The Portuguese-flagged Solong and US-registered tanker Stena Immaculate crashed off the East Yorkshire coast at about 10:00 GMT on Monday.Filipino nationwide Mark Angelo Pernia, 38, was once named because the group member of the Solong who was once lacking and presumed lifeless, the Crown Prosecution Carrier stated.Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky in St Petersburg, Russia, captain of the Solong, didn’t input a plea and was once remanded in custody via Hull magistrates to look sooner than the Central Felony Court docket in London on April 14.Mr Motin stood within the glass-front dock at Hull Magistrates’ Court docket for the 35-minute listening to.He spoke thru a translator to substantiate his identify, age and deal with, and that he understood the fees.The court docket heard how all 23 other folks at the tanker have been rescued together with 13 of 14 group participants from the Solong however that Mr Pernia may no longer be positioned.Humberside Police arrested Mr Motin on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter on Monday night, hours after the collision.The power stated he were charged on Friday night.The Marine Coincidence Investigation Department (MAIB) is attempting to ascertain the reason for the crash.It stated preliminary inquiries discovered the Solong was once travelling from Grangemouth to Rotterdam and had steadily sailed the similar path.”At 09:47 GMT it struck the Stena Immaculate that was once at anchor off the doorway to the River Humber,” the MAIB stated.On Friday, Stena Bulk stated salvage mavens from SMIT Salvage had effectively boarded Stena Immaculate to habits an intensive overview. The vessel was once sporting 220,000 barrels of aviation gas.The Stena Immaculate continues to be at anchor on the level the place the collision took place, which is ready 12 miles off the East Yorkshire coast, close to Withernsea.The MAIB stated the salvage procedure was once “essentially methodical, complete and ongoing” and would “require time to finish totally”.Leader coastguard Paddy O’Callaghan stated that aerial surveillance flights persevered to observe the vessels and showed “there is still no reason for fear from air pollution” from both send.All 23 group on board Stena Immaculate have been American citizens who’re recently in Grimsby and usually are repatriated sooner or later, the BBC understands.Pay attention to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the most recent episode of Glance North or let us know a couple of tale you assume we will have to be overlaying right here.
