Oil tanker involved in North Sea collision was carrying jet fuel for US military

Stena Immaculate is carrying jet A1 fuel which is on fire and in the water

In a recording of the coastguard's alert, other ships were warned

It appears that Solong just straight-out rammed into the side of Stena Immaculate.

In a YouTube video analysing the tracking data from the ships, he said

The incident is close to Bempton Cliffs, home to the biggest gannet colony in England.

Dave O'Hara, of the RSPB, said

The wildlife of the Yorkshire coast and Humber Estuary is of immense biological, cultural and economic importance

Dr Tom Webb, senior lecturer in Marine Ecology and Conservation at the University of Sheffield, said

It can be assumed that the watchkeepers on MV Solong were not performing their duty to "maintain a proper lookout by all available means" as required by International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea.

Dr Abdul Khalique, head of the Maritime Centre at Liverpool John Moores University who has been using simulators to reconstruct the incident, said

In the very worst-case scenario, you have a big spill of sodium cyanide, resulting in the death of a lot of marine organisms.

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Richard Bernardrector (academia)

Oil directly impacts seabirds, coating their feathers and reducing their waterproofing and buoyancy, which can lead to drowning, or it can poison them through ingestion.

The charity's Richard Barnard said

Whilst the images look worrying, from the perspective of the impact to the aquatic environment, it’s less of a concern than if this had been crude oil because most of the jet fuel will evaporate very quickly,

said Mark Hartl of the Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology at Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University

In the end, it all depends on the rate of introduction of fuel and the rate of destruction by bacteria,

he said

It’s a miracle they didn’t all die.”

A TANKER and cargo ship collided in dense fog yesterday — with a rescuer admitting

Both vessels have sustained significant damage in the impact of the collision and the subsequent fire,

Ernst Russ said in a statement

Most of it will evaporate quite quickly and what doesn't evaporate will be degraded by microorganisms quite quickly

he added, while warning

A fire occurred as a result of the allision and fuel was reported released,

Crowley said

A lot depends really on cargo carried, how many tanks were breached and how bad the fire is,

the sources reportedly said

The fact that we are moving into warmer temperatures will also speed up the biodegradation rates,

he added

This will all depend on a number of factors, the type of oil, the weather, the sea state, and how far out the spill is.

Nicky Cariglia, director of Marittima which specialises in marine pollution, told MailOnline

You can either wait down current for the oil to collect it there, or you can sometimes sweep up the oil and gather it up like that.

Ms Cariglia says

It's essentially like how dish detergent works to cut through grease, it makes the oil slick go into smaller particles

Ms Cariglia says

The fact that it is jet fuel is significant

Professor Mark Sephton, of Imperial College London, says

Controlled burning is sometimes used to rapidly remove large volumes of oil when other methods are ineffective

Dr Vikas Nandwana, founder and CTO of Coral Innovations which produces oil cleaning products, told MailOnline