# Stena Immaculate on fire off UK **URL:** \ **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\ **Created:** [March 10, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072 "2025-03-10T12:53:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![spowiednick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/spowiednick/32/35668_2.png) [@spowiednick](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/spowiednick)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/41 "2025-03-11T00:12:15Z")
The rate , speed & intensity of their burnout may result VDRs wil not be available. Solong AIS has already stopped squeaking. Suspect it may be EPIC story resulting in drastic thickening of SMS navigational precedures. What more!!! do they need to GET ALLERTED !!! . Beats me. You know what ??? Could be CMA CGM can reconsider reflaging 😉 after this .Who knows. But taking into account my conspiratorial mind i bet 1% 😉 it was Putins fault or provocation. With all this magic gadgets on both bridges to have a T’BONE seems like and art . Maybe the Solong navigator was from the Navy as they train them very well to INTERCEPT 😉 Added: „ …. There was fog…. „ SO WHAT. ? > **[Fires continue to burn in North Sea following yesterday's ship collision -...](https://splash247.com/fires-continue-to-burn-in-north-sea-following-yesterdays-ship-collision/)** > > The search for a missing crewmember from the containership Solong that struck the tanker Stena Immaculate in the UK North Sea has been called off as fires aboard both ships continued to burn overnight. The 140-m-long Solong, owned by Hamburg-based... [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/7/e/7e36c7fa67eecd1f4ca2a61cc2b97487a17deafb.jpeg "UPDATE: Solong Rams Anchored US Tanker Stena Immaculate | Ships Abandoned & On Fire | Port Closed") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a03EAv2vZO8) ---
**Author:** ![NLGA145](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/74df32/32.png) [@NLGA145](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/NLGA145)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/42 "2025-03-11T09:50:31Z")
It is possible to broadcast a route and see other vessel’s routes. ---
**Author:** ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/43 "2025-03-11T11:28:50Z")
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**Author:** ![spowiednick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/spowiednick/32/35668_2.png) [@spowiednick](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/spowiednick)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/44 "2025-03-11T12:19:48Z")
Terrible. It is a miracle mixed with good emcy training the tanker crew all escaped/evacuated alive. ---
**Author:** ![McGourthyClone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@McGourthyClone](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/McGourthyClone)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/45 "2025-03-11T12:39:21Z")
Fortunate timing also. If it was 10:00 as I read then everyone was likely at coffee and near the boat(s) rather than scattered around this ship working. ---
**Author:** ![New3M](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/new3m/32/394_2.png) [@New3M](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New3M)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/46 "2025-03-11T12:50:44Z")
‘It came out of the blue’: Sailor describes harrowing escape from tankerpublished at 03:19 03:19 CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, has spoken to an American sailor from the Stena Immaculate who describes his dramatic escape from the ship. The sailor, who did not give his name as crew are not currently allowed to speak to the media, says he was near the impact when the collision happened. All of a sudden, “a massive ship came from out of the blue," he says, adding that he only had seconds to react. The sailor, who has years of experience at sea, describes hearing shouts to brace before the impact. He adds that the Solong didn’t immediately stop and that it drove into their ship for what seemed like 10 minutes. Other crew members have described how it appeared nobody was on the bridge of the Solong at the moment of the crash, he says. Sounds like somebody was working around the manifold. Also sounds like the bridge wasn’t paying a lot of attention since I would have been hammering on the whistle and PA system trying to get everyone’s attention. ---
**Author:** ![jbtam99](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jbtam99/32/65499_2.png) [@jbtam99](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jbtam99)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/47 "2025-03-11T12:51:52Z")
Maybe now, but this was about 12 years ago, and the ECDIS our company uses can’t do that. Now I’m curious and need to look into it more… what ECDIS models can do that? And what does it take to be able to receive that info? To clarify, I’m talking about the intended route (waypoints, etc) not the track “prediction” based on ROT, speed, and heading. ---
**Author:** ![spowiednick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/spowiednick/32/35668_2.png) [@spowiednick](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/spowiednick)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/48 "2025-03-11T13:04:37Z")
Looks to me Humber River VTS and Harbour monitoring services were also munching danish cookies and drinking coffe without paying much attention to their radar screens and AIS gadgets. Have not been there very often but still remember one ccould not FART in their area without being noticed or called out by some important sounding bloke on the radio. One does not need ships VDRs to access voice traffic data prior and during the event. [Vessel Traffic Services - ABP Humber](https://www.humber.com/Estuary_Information/Marine_Information/Vessel_Traffic_Services/) Splash247 is also exploding with valid comments ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/5/f/5f571ebd749b639fce74f607c2e3665c33126221.png) ---
**Author:** ![yacht\_sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed655f/32.png) [@yacht\_sailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/yacht_sailor)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/49 "2025-03-11T13:37:51Z")
Since when? I have never seen anything like that? I am not talking about the projected track of a target at current course and speed, but someone setting 5 waypoints and me seeing them. ---
**Author:** ![New3M](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/new3m/32/394_2.png) [@New3M](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New3M)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/50 "2025-03-11T13:44:32Z")
> [@spowiednick](#): > > Looks to me Humber River VTS and Harbour monitoring services were also munching danish cookies and drinking coffe without paying much attention to their radar screens and AIS gadgets Apparently this wasn’t the first time this ship blew through the anchorage at full steam. Either the VTS doesn’t monitor this area or they’re always asleep. ---
**Author:** ![Scapla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Scapla](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Scapla)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/51 "2025-03-11T13:46:57Z")
I do know this works with Wärtsilä (Transas) 4000 in the Fos Silver software version. Have had this on board one of my vessels working in combination with a Furuno AIS. In the ECDIS, ais must be set to “route broadcasting on”, then you will bother everyone around you with your next 6 or so waypoints and a green course line plotted on their systems. Also, you can click on other AIS targets and use the “interrogation” function to request their route info, if available. I have not found any practical use in this, however… ---
**Author:** ![jbtam99](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jbtam99/32/65499_2.png) [@jbtam99](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jbtam99)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/52 "2025-03-11T13:52:19Z")
> [@New3M](#): > > Also sounds like the bridge wasn’t paying a lot of attention since I would have been hammering on the whistle and PA system trying to get everyone’s attention. Valid, but a legitimate argument to this is that ships come in to anchorages with “too much” steam on all the time. Hard to tell if they’re going to back hard and drop the hook or T-bone you sometimes. And let’s face it, the last thing you’d expect is to be rammed at anchor… it’s not the kind of situation that the bridge team is going to be primed and ready for. (Edit: disregard most of this… just saw the Solong was doing 16 knots. I’d hope somebody on the Immaculate would have seen that as an issue and raise the alarm if it was coming at them) ---
**Author:** ![Scapla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Scapla](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Scapla)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/53 "2025-03-11T13:54:30Z")
The position is outside the VTS area and OPL. It’s commonly used for vessels which have not received clearance yet to enter or drop anchor at the customary anchorage further southeast. Edit: maybe also important for context, this is not a desiganted anchorage area. If I recall correctly, VTS would just advise vessels to anchor 2-3 miles north of the buoy marking the Northern TSS entrance and remain clear of the charted subsea cables. It is common for coasters to plough through in between the anchored vessels there, but usually with a CPA of 4-5 cables ---
**Author:** ![spowiednick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/spowiednick/32/35668_2.png) [@spowiednick](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/spowiednick)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/54 "2025-03-11T13:57:47Z")
Apparently it was not on a collision course THEN as it was now Mr. Smarty p. Likewise it is already apparent, the veil of propaganda is descending upon news services now describing the heroic crew of the tanker fighting fire , doing important things , evacuating (thanks God) safely but not seeing for at least 30 minutes something disturbing on all radars , AIS - only noticing at the last moment “out of the bliue” but miracously in the heat of the moment , amid explosions , scorching heat, enveloping smoke let elone dense fog some of them were able to give one last look on the bridge of the offending vessel ramming them the old roman style and saw with clear VISION not affected by fear of death …there was nobody on the bridge of the Solong. Wow.!!! ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/55 "2025-03-11T16:34:56Z")
The whole video from ITV News: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEhsDSDnIFM&t=6s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEhsDSDnIFM&t=6s), Looks like there are still power on to run both fire pump(s) and radars UPDATE: > **[Man arrested over North Sea crash as criminal investigation launched](https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/man-arrested-over-north-sea-10014213)** > > Humberside Police have issued a major update ---
**Author:** ![Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Binbag_the_Saylore)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/56 "2025-03-11T16:49:22Z")
Latest from BBC - “The Humberside Police… criminal investigation… in collaboration with the Maritime & Coastguard Agency. … 59-year-old man was arrested… on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter in connection with the collision.” ---
**Author:** ![Ladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9a28c/32.png) [@Ladder](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Ladder)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/57 "2025-03-11T17:08:56Z")
Probably a watch keeper who fell asleep because of being up ridiculous hours in port due to a minimum manning being too low. They should update hours of rest regs. to increase the minimum period from 6 hours to 8 hours. They should but they won’t, industry would be up in arms about having to give humans a proper rest. ---
**Author:** ![yacht\_sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed655f/32.png) [@yacht\_sailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/yacht_sailor)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/58 "2025-03-11T17:49:12Z")
There should be more than one person running a ship that size. ---
**Author:** ![New3M](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/new3m/32/394_2.png) [@New3M](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New3M)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/59 "2025-03-11T17:56:21Z")
Do you have no idea how commercial shipping works? Maximum people on the bridge is 2. Minimum is 1. That ship is tiny. ---
**Author:** ![yacht\_sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed655f/32.png) [@yacht\_sailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/yacht_sailor)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072/60 "2025-03-11T17:57:51Z")
ONE person fell asleep and let the ship cruise on in to an anchorage? Maybe I don’t know anything about commercial shipping, but I would have thought at least 2 people would be awake. [Previous page](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stena-immaculate-on-fire-off-uk/72072.md?page=4)