Vehicle Accident in Oman on Sunday Description An asphalt ship Nisar R 3 carrying 816 tonnnes of betumin sank 1.4 miles off Port Sultan Qaboos, yesterday. The captain of the ship (Iranian national) was reported dead when the Cyprus-flagged vessel went down in the water. Nine crew were rescued. The control tower received a call from the ship captain reporting an emergency 1371916889664138300 in his ship when water began to enter the ship which lacked machines used to siphon out water. The captain told the control tower that water was quickly entering the ship which has already started to tilt. Immediately two vessels were sent to rescue the sinking ship, but the ship had already sunk when the rescue vessels reached the site. However, nine Indian crew were successfully rescued and the captain’s body was recovered from the sunken ship. Sulaiman bin Nasser al Akhzami, Director, Studies and Planning Department at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, said that a committee was formed to handle the environmental consequences resulting from the incident and to contain the oil spill from the sunken ship.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 09:20:05 +0000
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