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The Russian skipper of a cargo vessel that collided with a U.S. tanker successful the North Sea has pleaded not blameworthy to manslaughter
LONDON -- The Russian skipper of a cargo vessel that collided with a U.S. tanker successful the North Sea pleaded not blameworthy to the manslaughter of 1 of his unit astatine a U.K. tribunal proceeding connected Friday.
Vladimir Motin, 59, from St. Petersburg, appeared by video nexus from situation for the pretrial proceeding astatine London’s Central Criminal Court. Assisted by a Russian interpreter, helium denied a complaint of gross manslaughter implicit the decease of 38-year-old Mark Angelo Pernia.
Motin was ordered detained until his adjacent hearing, and his proceedings was acceptable for Jan. 12.
The Portugal-flagged cargo vessel Solong was traveling astatine astir 15 knots (17 mph oregon 28 kph) erstwhile it deed the anchored tanker MV Stena Immaculate astir 12 miles (19 kilometers) disconnected the seashore of northeast England on March 10, sparking a occurrence that lasted astir a week. The tanker was transporting pitchy substance for the U.S. military.
Rescuers saved 36 radical from some ships. Pernia, from the Philippines, is missing and presumed dead.
U.K. authorities person said that there's thing to bespeak that the collision was connected to nationalist security.
Environmental harm from the collision was acold little than initially feared, though thousands of pellets utilized successful plastics production, known arsenic nurdles, from the ruptured containers connected the Solong person since washed up on England’s eastbound coast.
Conservationists accidental the nurdles aren't toxic, but tin harm animals if ingested.
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