Two years after the VLOC Stellar Daisy sank along with almost its entire crew in the South Atlantic Ocean, the Marshall Islands issued the investigation report on the accident, identifying a ‘catastrophic structural failure of the ship’s hull‘ as key cause of the accident.
The incident
On 31 March 2017, the 266,141 dwt, very large ore carrier (VLOC) Stellar Daisy was underway in South Atlantic ocean, on its way from Brazil to Qingdao, China, when it sank about 1,700 off Uruguay. The water depth...
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