Smoke and flames soar from the burning oil tanker Sanchi off the coast of east China. The stricken Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Shanghai burst into flames from end to end and sank yesterday Cheap Dallas Mavericks Jerseys , eight days after it caught fire following a collision with a cargo ship.
Earlier, a Tehran official said there was no hope of saving some 30 missing crewmen before the ship sank, amid concern over an oil spill.
The Sanchi, carrying 136,000 tons of light crude oil from Iran, had been burning since colliding with the CF Crystal Yogi Ferrell Mavericks Jersey , a Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter, about 300 kilometers east of the Yangtze River estuary on January 6.
At around midday yesterday the ship “suddenly ignited,” with the entire vessel burning fiercely and a pall of smoke between 800 and 1,000 meters high, China’s transport ministry said, releasing dramatic pictures of the entire vessel obscured by thick black smoke.
China’s State Oceanic Administration said that it had detected fires and dense black smoke in a large area around the Panama-registered oil tanker at around 10am yesterday and the entire ship sunk at around 3pm.
A large amount of spilled oil is still burning on the surface around the site Steve Nash Mavericks Jersey , the administration said, adding it will monitor the oil spills and evaluate the accident’s impact on the marine environment.
“There is no hope of finding survivors among the members of the crew,” Mohammad Rastad, spokesman for the Iranian rescue team dispatched to Shanghai, told Iran’s state broadcaster in Tehran before the tanker went down.
Rastad said information from members of the Crystal crew suggested all the personnel on the Sanchi died in the first hour of the accident “due to the explosion and the release of gas.”
“Despite our efforts, it has not been possible to extinguish the fire and recover the