Although the ship had reached a distance of about 20 nautical miles off the coast by 6 00 p m.
New diamond oil tanker location.
11 2020 at 13 12 by mikhail voytenko in accidents.
351247000 is a crude oil tanker that was built in 2000 20 years old it s sailing under the flag of pa panama.
The oil tanker caught fire on thursday morning 37 nautical miles off the sri lankan coast.
The sri lanka navy reported that the situation with the oil tanker mt new diamond was brought under control and the ship was towed more than 35 nautical miles to safer waters.
Photos and video showed thick black smoke pouring from one end of the panamanian flagged tanker mt new diamond 38 nautical miles 70 kilometers off sangamankanda point in southern sri lanka.
The sri lanka navy sri lanka air force sri lanka ports authority the indian navy and the indian coast guard are currently working together to control the fire that erupted after an explosion of a boiler in the main engine room of mt new diamond an oil tanker sailing 38 nautical miles off sangamankanda point east of sri lankan seas around 8 00 a m.
The vessel new diamond imo.
The vessel s current speed is 9 knots.
Mt new diamond is a very large crude carrier on 3 september 2020 the ship caught fire off the eastern coast of sri lanka resulting in the death of a filipino crew member after burning intermittently for almost a week the fire was reported to be extinguished by 11 september.
The vessel new diamond imo.
On friday 04 the tugboat alp winger had begun to take the ship to the.
The vessel new diamond imo.
Sri lanka air force posted a short video on youtube with plane filming new diamond after fire ship s having stern tilt which can be considered as quite normal after a massive and prolonged firefighting.
The current position of new diamond is at indian coast coordinates 7 11762 n 82 48306 e reported 27 days ago by ais.
On 03rd september 2020.
The current position of new diamond is in gulf of oman with coordinates 25 75114 57 08128 as reported on 2020 08 25 19 56 by ais to our vessel tracker app.
The oil leakage from mt new diamond oil tanker would have not only threatened the coastal areas in close proximity to the spot where the mishap occurred but the crude oil leakage from the oil tanker would have even covered the coastal belt further north of the south eastern region as it would have even gone deeper covering the southern coastal.