No oil slick detected yet as fire rages on stricken tanker near Sedili
Published on 2 May 2023 9:48:03 PM
There have been no sightings of oil spills from the Gabon-registered oil tanker which caught fire near Tanjung Sedili waters in Johor..
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) acting deputy director-general Rear Admiral (M) Datuk Saiful Lizan Ibrahim told a press conference at Johor maritime headquarters on Tuesday (May 2) that the agency was monitoring the situation, adding that they had widened the search area to 71 nautical miles (131km) from the site of the incident for the missing crewmen.
Meanwhile, MT Pablo’s shipmaster Lepyoshkin Oleksandr told Saiful Lizan that he and his chief engineer tried their best to save the crew, and believed that his three missing crewmen were still alive.
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There have been no sightings of oil spills from the Gabon-registered oil tanker which caught fire near Tanjung Sedili waters in Johor..
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) acting deputy director-general Rear Admiral (M) Datuk Saiful Lizan Ibrahim told a press conference at Johor maritime headquarters on Tuesday (May 2) that the agency was monitoring the situation, adding that they had widened the search area to 71 nautical miles (131km) from the site of the incident for the missing crewmen.
Meanwhile, MT Pablo’s shipmaster Lepyoshkin Oleksandr told Saiful Lizan that he and his chief engineer tried their best to save the crew, and believed that his three missing crewmen were still alive.
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