The ship is now listing at more than 50 degrees and a salvage operation is expected to take several days. However, no oil is thought to have leaked from the ship.
The captain and master and the pilot on board decided jointly to put the vessel on the sandbank to avoid any more serious problems. I think they executed their duties based on their best judgement and we're not second-guessing their actions right now. There has been no leakage of any oil or any other substances and that's our primary focus obviously now going forward, that we keep it that way.
A temporary 200m exclusion zone has been put in place. Three senior officers stayed on board but have now been taken ashore. The MCA said the vessel was not in a shipping channel, so there was no impact on other ships in the area.
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