New Diamond Oil Tanker Fire

Four tugboats three sri lankan navy ships and four indian ships have been battling the fire the mt new diamond since thursday.

New diamond oil tanker fire.

Tanker with 2 million barrels of oil catches fire off sri lanka one filipino crew member injured and another missing from the new diamond navy says ships from russia and india helping to battle blaze. 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 appreciation extended by president gotabaya rajapaksa to the sri lanka navy the indian navy and sri lanka air force fire fighters who had engaged in the task of dousing the fire that erupted on the oil tanker mt new diamond had highlighted to what extent the inferno had posed a threat to the marine biodiversity in the eastern coastal area of sri lanka. On 03rd september 2020.

De silva said some of the new diamond s crew were rescued by oil product tanker helen m which an industry source said was on a time charter with india s reliance industries. The fire on board mt new diamond which killed one filipino crew member and injured another was extinguished completely on sunday but a new fire broke. 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 new diamond a very large crude carrier vlcc chartered by indian oil corp ioc that was carrying the equivalent of about 2 million barrels of oil is seen after a fire broke out off east.

Firefighting crews from sri lanka and india are working to put out a large blaze aboard an oil tanker that has been burning since thursday off the coast of the south asian island nation.