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Cruise Ship and Tanker Full of Highly Flammable Fuel Collide Near Turkey

By Jim Walker on June 27, 2015
Posted in Collisions

A near disaster unfolded early this morning when the Celestyal Crystal, a cruise ship operated by Celestyal Cruises, collided with the STI Pimlico fuel tanker, according to the Turkish publication, SeaNews.

Celestyal CrystalThe tanker was filled with a cargo of extremely volatile naphtha (flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture). The cruise ship’s bow struck the midsection of…

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