Mar 12, 2025 06:17 PM
While it's possibly seen as stale news since it happened a couple of days ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_North..._collision
There are some interesting developments. There are two sources online of videos, one from a Filapino sailor onboard the Solong straight after the collision. The video shows that the sailor on the citadel of the ship looking at the bow with a fire occuring on the MV Stena Immaculate. The Ship on fire doesn't have any anchor lights on, however that might have been tripped out during the collision. The fog level would suggest that visability would of been about 500-700m's.
The Solong was travelling at 18 knots (33km/h). That would suggest that by the time the ship was seen, there would of only been between 60 and 90 seconds to Reverse Full or change course.
The second was from the harbour showing a camera that was able to penetrate the fog. It show the Solong cruising straight into the side of MV Stena Immaculate followed by a large explosion. There doesn't appear to be any slowdown of the ship, although the camera used to record seemed to have been a low FPS so it's not a smooth transition between frames.
It's possible the ship was following a plotted course that didn't take into consideration the anchorage locations (straight line between waypoints crossing the anchorage location), it's also possible that if there had been active lighting (and possible fog horn) that it might have also been avoidable (Although whether they were active initially is something for investigators to query).
I mention all this because while it easy to pick up on the Captain being a Russian National and the MV Stena Immaculate was chartered for delivering US A1 Aviation fuel, it is possible that it wasn't actually a plotted attack by the captain. (The evidence suggests that visibly it would of been too late to deal with the collision, but it does question about various collision detection systems on board the Solong)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_North..._collision
There are some interesting developments. There are two sources online of videos, one from a Filapino sailor onboard the Solong straight after the collision. The video shows that the sailor on the citadel of the ship looking at the bow with a fire occuring on the MV Stena Immaculate. The Ship on fire doesn't have any anchor lights on, however that might have been tripped out during the collision. The fog level would suggest that visability would of been about 500-700m's.
The Solong was travelling at 18 knots (33km/h). That would suggest that by the time the ship was seen, there would of only been between 60 and 90 seconds to Reverse Full or change course.
The second was from the harbour showing a camera that was able to penetrate the fog. It show the Solong cruising straight into the side of MV Stena Immaculate followed by a large explosion. There doesn't appear to be any slowdown of the ship, although the camera used to record seemed to have been a low FPS so it's not a smooth transition between frames.
It's possible the ship was following a plotted course that didn't take into consideration the anchorage locations (straight line between waypoints crossing the anchorage location), it's also possible that if there had been active lighting (and possible fog horn) that it might have also been avoidable (Although whether they were active initially is something for investigators to query).
I mention all this because while it easy to pick up on the Captain being a Russian National and the MV Stena Immaculate was chartered for delivering US A1 Aviation fuel, it is possible that it wasn't actually a plotted attack by the captain. (The evidence suggests that visibly it would of been too late to deal with the collision, but it does question about various collision detection systems on board the Solong)
