Iranian Oil Tanker Bursts Into Flames After Colliding With Chinese Ship Near South Korea | Zero Hedge
Description: 32 sailors are missing after an Iranian oil tanker sailing to South Korea collided with a cargo ship off the east coast of China and caught fire on Saturday evening.

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# Iranian Oil Tanker Bursts Into Flames After Colliding With Chinese Ship Near South Korea

32 sailors are missing after an Iranian oil tanker sailing to South Korea collided with a cargo ship off the east coast of China and caught fire on Saturday evening, according to China's Ministry of Transport. The Sanchi collided with the Chinese cargo vessel CF Crystal about 160 nautical miles off the coast of Shanghai on Saturday, at about 8 p.m. local time (7 a.m. ET), according to Iran’s Oil Ministry news agency, Shana. The 32 crew members of the Iranian vessel were missing, it said.

China’s Ministry of Transport also reported the collision Saturday and said the Sanchi was on fire and that search and rescue operations were under way. It said oil was on the water.

"The accident caused oil tanker 'SANCHI' to catch on fire, tilting to the right, losing contact with the crew," it said. The ministry said that the tanker was still afloat and burning Sunday morning 9 a.m. local time: "Until now, 'SANCHI' is floating and still on fire. There are fuel stains on the sea, the rescue is going on."

Shana and China didn’t report the cause of the crash.

> 32 crew members, incl. 30 Iranians & 2 Bengalese, have gone missing after a Panama-registered oil tanker and a Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter collided off China's east coast on Sat evening. Search and rescue are underway pic.twitter.com/o7jDIu9oDb

> — People's Daily,China (@PDChina) January 7, 2018

The tanker Sanchi departed Iran’s Assaluyeh port on Dec. 16 for Daesan in South Korea carrying about 1 million barrels of natural gas condensate, according to ship-tracking data from Marine Traffic. State-run shipper National Iranian Tanker Co. owns the Panamanian-flagged vessel according to Bloomberg.

Tanker Sanchi

As CNN adds, the 274 meter-long (890 feet) Sanchi was carrying 136,000 tons of oil from Iran to South Korea when it collided with the CF Crystal, which had been transporting food from the United States to the Chinese city of Guangdong. All 21 Chinese crew on board the Hong-Kong registered freighter the CF-Crystal were rescued, the Chinese ministry said.

Chinese maritime officials have launched a search and rescue operation involving eight vessels, with support from South Korea, which has provided a coastguard ship and fixed wing aircraft, the ministry said.

Iran's Shana news agency reported that the Sanchi was managed by the National Iranian Tanker Company and that its cargo was worth around $60 million. Shana said the oil had been purchased by South Korean customers.

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blown income Jan 7, 2018 9:13 AM

That fucker going to burn and burn and burn...

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Zero Point blown income Jan 7, 2018 9:17 AM

GPS....

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InjectTheVenom Zero Point Jan 7, 2018 9:22 AM

**coughfalseflagcough**

god i hate the flu

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False_Profit InjectTheVenom Jan 7, 2018 9:27 AM

1 part iranian petroleum product

1 part Fukushima irradiated water

Stir gently until thoroughly mixed near 3 American aircraft carriers just off the Korean peninsula...

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MillionDollarButter False_Profit Jan 7, 2018 9:31 AM

ZUMA launch coming. Cyberwar coming. Patch your BIOS.

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Luc X. Ifer MillionDollarButter Jan 7, 2018 9:36 AM

Diversion. Certainly planned - the positioning forces detours for the routes and increases difficulty for aerial observations. Something major will happen soon.

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Truther Luc X. Ifer Jan 7, 2018 9:39 AM

Exactly. A false flag indeed. The US is doing too many oops lately.

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zoghead False_Profit Jan 7, 2018 10:02 AM

Classic. Neat imagination sir! Thanks. Btw, think the carriers could have found NKorea by now!? They started sometime in May last year.

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Lordflin False_Profit Jan 7, 2018 10:36 AM

Turn about for destroyers??

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man from glad InjectTheVenom Jan 7, 2018 9:39 AM

Interesting the parties involved. CIA sending a message.“You mess with our guidance systems-we mess with yours.”

Does anybody really think the USN can’t normally avoid a freighter?

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Moe-Monay man from glad Jan 7, 2018 10:05 AM

Very cogent supposition.

But if USN is not planning for GPS outages etc and / or maintaining a dude in the crow's nest with binoculars I am as a tax payer quite disappointed!

My god they must not be. As someone once said on the internet "retarted"

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curbjob Zero Point Jan 7, 2018 10:10 AM

"GPS .."

... gives position, the auto pilot is what would need to be hacked. Not impossible, tho;

COLREG's Rule 5

"Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the prevailing circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of the situation and or the risk of collision."

interesting that none of the crew have been found ? or were they already dead ?

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radio man Zero Point Jan 7, 2018 10:35 AM

Gps? Try radar. Works when used.

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shitshitshit blown income Jan 7, 2018 9:18 AM

better have it burnt than released in the sea.

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Ink Pusher shitshitshit Jan 7, 2018 9:37 AM

if half of it burns, we will be lucky. The rest is a spill that won't be cleaned up.

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peddling-fiction Ink Pusher Jan 7, 2018 9:53 AM

Lots of "spills" coming up soon.

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Moe-Monay peddling-fiction Jan 7, 2018 10:08 AM

Oil spills are not a big deal. There are microorganisms that eat the consume the excess energy in the oil.

Would you be concerned if I told you a spill of corn oil had occurred? I would not be. I know what happens to that. You just don't like the unappealing color of crude oil. Nonetheless an oil spill is more like littering. Littering is not an environmental issue per se. It is an aesthetic one.

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RumpleShitzkin Moe-Monay Jan 7, 2018 10:18 AM

So you won’t mind when I piss in your bottle of Aquafina or take a big steamy dump in your well?

After all, microorganisms love those too....and they are merely unsightly.

Like littering.

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hardcleareye Moe-Monay Jan 7, 2018 10:20 AM

Bull SHIT!!!

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Lumberjack shitshitshit Jan 7, 2018 9:54 AM

Best video of wind turbine fire/blade throw I’ve seen to date.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=513506242355273&id=100010877041625

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ZH Snob blown income Jan 7, 2018 9:19 AM

my, my, what an unfortunate coincidence. trouble with Korea and Iran regimes while China and US interests watch.

symbolic at the very least.

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bloostar blown income Jan 7, 2018 10:09 AM

US admiral at the helm?

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D503 Jan 7, 2018 9:13 AM

Here we go. Another "accident."

"It ain't as though it's a pack of peanuts is it Tyrome?"

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johand inmywallet D503 Jan 7, 2018 9:18 AM

Seriously, this is not 101 at 4:30 or the LIE at drivetime. Damn hackers!

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nmewn D503 Jan 7, 2018 9:22 AM

Putin? Kim? Trump? Jooos? Greenpeace? Who done it?

Hey!

Did everyone catch the fact that Oregonians are freaking-the-fuck out because the state passed a law taking away gas station attendants?

The poor babies are whimpering about their own incompetence in being able to pump gas and/or don't want to have icky, smelly gas hands when they get to their barista job...lol...geeesh...so whens the next errrf quake again?

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Anarchyteez nmewn Jan 7, 2018 9:45 AM

Liberals. Making laws to outlaw jobs.

It is a mental disorder.

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nmewn Anarchyteez Jan 7, 2018 9:54 AM

Here we go...

https://twitter.com/rjjohnsonFTW/status/949716666845245440

...LMMFAO!!!

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Pure Evil nmewn Jan 7, 2018 10:01 AM

Worked in NJ for about 7 years. Mandatory law for gas pumpers.

During the winter months it was a pleasure to watch the dune coons freeze their asses off pumping my gas.

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nmewn Pure Evil Jan 7, 2018 10:09 AM

I just can't get over the Oregonians comments on all this, basically its some variation of...

"OMG! It is beneath me to pump my own gas! Its friggin manual labor, its smelly and I'm telling you, I'm to stupid to know how to do it anyways!"

...I fucking love it...lol.

See, I had to post this now before the sun rises out on the left coast or I'd be hit with 50 down arrows ;-)

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Pure Evil nmewn Jan 7, 2018 10:25 AM

Admittedly, once you get used to it it's hard to want to get out and pump your own gas especially during inclement weather.

The only thing I hated was handing over a credit card not knowing if they had a skimmer.

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hardcleareye nmewn Jan 7, 2018 10:24 AM

Nmewn.... how about we apply Occum Razor to this situation... go to the link in the article and look at the shipping traffic in the area... human error and operators of the ships not paying attention and fucking up...

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SurlysonofaBitch Jan 7, 2018 9:13 AM

I hate when that happens ...

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Grandad Grumps Jan 7, 2018 9:15 AM

Guessing the explosion was not caused by a collision.

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shitshitshit Grandad Grumps Jan 7, 2018 9:18 AM

natural gas condensate is pretty easy to ignite, contrary to crude oil.

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squid shitshitshit Jan 7, 2018 10:05 AM

Depending on what the tanker was carrying, crude is condensate when it comes up from the well. If they just pumped and dumped it in the tanker with no processing, there would be load of methane bubbles, like a can of coke.

Squid

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Robert of Ottawa Jan 7, 2018 9:15 AM

Is this the same problem the US Navy's Pacific fleet has been suffering from?

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Conscious Reviver Robert of Ottawa Jan 7, 2018 9:40 AM

Maybe. Grain freighter came from US. All on board rescued. The tanker - 30 Iranians and 2 others missing.

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zoghead Conscious Reviver Jan 7, 2018 10:04 AM

Yes, indeed. A very moot observation. Thank u sir!

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Pure Evil Conscious Reviver Jan 7, 2018 10:28 AM

Well, that's 30 less Iranians we have to bomb back to Democracy.

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nmewn Jan 7, 2018 9:16 AM

Is it too early to get some sorta grand conspiracy going on this or do we wait till later?

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Global Hunter nmewn Jan 7, 2018 9:23 AM

never to late for that :) I think a few US Navy ships crashed into ships in this region lately so "not an accident" was my first thought.

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peddling-fiction Global Hunter Jan 7, 2018 9:40 AM

This appears to be payback for USSN "crashes" plus DRNK oil "embargo". The gloves seem to be coming off.

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williambanzai7 nmewn Jan 7, 2018 9:29 AM

I’ve had the conspiracy theory for this event up on my board since November.

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Son of Captain Nemo williambanzai7 Jan 7, 2018 9:41 AM

"I’ve had the conspiracy theory for this event up on my board since November."...

I've had it on mine since (http://www.ae911truth.org/)

Sabotage of the oil routes was the next logical step in the Anglo-American financial meltdown when unsecured $trillion loans through military threats no longer work along with "digital wallets"!

Finger prints "ALL OVER IT"!!!

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hedgeless_horseman Son of Captain Nemo Jan 7, 2018 9:50 AM

Why doesn't Iran simply pump the oil and gas from the Persian Gulf to China and Korea through cheap and efficient pipelines via Afghanistan?

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fWGeYlUYs0o/UqqZVgQDmFI/AAAAAAAAIf0/dxOBrCMx…

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RumpleShitzkin hedgeless_horseman Jan 7, 2018 9:56 AM

Yeah, all those pipelines...

Those start popping off next. All those miles of unguarded hinterlands. So many ‘accidents’ that could happen.

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1 Alabama hedgeless_horseman Jan 7, 2018 10:41 AM

You know there is a war going on over there right.

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Conscious Reviver nmewn Jan 7, 2018 9:41 AM

No. I just did.

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arby63 nmewn Jan 7, 2018 9:53 AM

It's the Jooooos!

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indygo55 Jan 7, 2018 9:22 AM

Natural gas condensate or oil? Which one, cuz it's my belief that they are very different.

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