Salvage crew bound for the site of a cargo ship fire off the coast of Alaska

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A salvage squad is expected to get aboriginal adjacent week astatine the country of a cargo vessel that was carrying astir 3,000 vehicles to Mexico erstwhile it caught occurrence successful waters disconnected Alaska’s Aleutian land chain

JUNEAU, Alaska -- A salvage squad is expected to get aboriginal adjacent week astatine the country of a cargo vessel that was carrying astir 3,000 vehicles to Mexico erstwhile it caught occurrence successful waters disconnected Alaska’s Aleutian land chain.

A tug carrying salvage specialists and peculiar instrumentality is expected to get astatine the determination of the Morning Midas astir Monday, the ship’s absorption company, London-based Zodiac Maritime, said Thursday. The unit volition measure the ship's condition, and a abstracted tug with firefighting and water towage capabilities is being arranged, the institution said successful its statement. In the meantime, officials are utilizing the ship's onboard satellite-connected systems to show it.

The vas remained afloat arsenic of Thursday morning, and images gathered by the U.S. Coast Guard showed it was inactive “alight with fume emanating” from it, the connection said.

The Coast Guard has said it received a distress alert astir 3:15 p.m. Tuesday astir a occurrence aboard the Morning Midas, which was astir 300 miles (490 kilometers) southwest of Adak Island. The vessel was carrying astir 70 afloat electrical and astir 680 hybrid vehicles, the Coast Guard said, noting that the accusation was preliminary.

Adak is astir 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) westbound of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city.

All 22 Morning Midas unit members were uninjured. They were evacuated onto a lifeboat and a adjacent merchant vas rescued them. They remained onboard the rescue vas Thursday, according to Zodiac Maritime.

The 600-foot (183-meter) Morning Midas was built successful 2006 and sails nether a Liberian flag. The car and motortruck bearer near Yantai, China, connected May 26, according to the manufacture tract marinetraffic.com. It was headed to a large Pacific larboard successful Mexico.

A Dutch information committee successful a caller study called for improving exigency response connected North Sea shipping routes aft a deadly 2023 occurrence aboard a freighter that was carrying 3,000 automobiles, including astir 500 electrical vehicles, from Germany to Singapore.

One idiosyncratic was killed and others injured successful the fire, which burned retired of power for a week. That vessel was yet towed to a Netherlands larboard for salvage.