The ship began burning on the high seas on February 16. She was dragged to safety when she ended up “losing stability”
The Felicity Ace sank on Tuesday about 170 kilometers south of Faial Island in the Azores. The ship has since been withdrawn shooting which broke out on February 16, on the high seas, and forced 22 crew members to withdraw.
Almost on board. Four thousand cars From the brands Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi and Lamborghini, which ended up at the bottom of the sea.
The ship had begun pulled it On February 25, however, according to the Portuguese Navy, “stability was lost” and ended up sinking 46 kilometers from the border of the Economic and Special Zone of Portugal, in an area with a depth of about three thousand meters.
“On site there is some debris and a small piece of oily waste, which is dispersed by water jets in tug boats and is being monitored by the Directorate of Pollution Control of the National Maritime Authority and the European Maritime Safety Agency,” says the authority, which continues to monitor the situation.
The Panamanian-flagged ship Felicity Ice has left Emden, Germany, for the port of Davisville in the US state of Rhode Island.