{UAH} Huge Oil Tanker Washes Up On Beach – But There’s No Sign Of The Crew

Huge Oil Tanker Washes Up On Beach – But There's No Sign Of The Crew

Yahoo News

May 9, 2016

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This 200ft oil tanker has been found washed ashore on a beach in Liberia, west Africa – but its crew is nowhere to be seen.

The abandoned Tamaya 1, which is registered in Panama, was found near Robertsport, by the border with Sierra Leone, last week.

Speculation is rife as to where those who were on board the ship are – particularly given the region's notoriety for piracy.

According to Marine Traffic, the vessel's last known position was just south of Dakar, Senegal, on April 22.

However, details of the vessel's 600-mile journey south since then are completely unknown. 

Locally, speculation is rife as to what happened. Although piracy is not unlikely, the number of incidents involving oil tankers has fallen dramatically in years years.

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Robertsport, Liberia (Erik Cleves Kristensen/Flickr)

In fact, a source at nation's port authority told the Liberian Daily Observer that it may be down to the tanker's owner going bankrupt.

They said: "Our best bet is that the vessel's owner might have gone broke and had no money to pay crew members. And therefore, the crew abandoned the ship."

The 992 gross tonne tanker, built in 1980, has spent several days on the beach, and has reportedly been looted – after authorities were apparently to act. 

(Credit: Preston Veteran Gaylor/Facebook)

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