Dire weather brings ship casualties across Southeast Asia

Dire weather over the weekend saw three casualties recorded in Southeast Asia. 

The Nicolai Maersk boxship rescued all the crew on the 1999-built Vietnamese-registered general cargo ship Dolphin 18 on Saturday which then sank some 274 nautical miles southwest of Vung Tau, Vietnam. 

Then on Sunday morning, 14 crewmembers of a tanker that caught fire four nautical miles southeast of Tanjung Piai were rescued by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA). The Mongolia-registered product tanker Eagle 1 (pictured) was manned by 15 crewmembers. One of them was swept into Singapore waters with Singaporean authorities finding him unconscious and taking him to a hospital for further treatment.

The fire was fully contained, and no oil spills were detected.

Finally, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) was alerted to a distress call from a Malaysia-registered tanker, Silver Sincere, yesterday afternoon, which reported that it was taking in water. The has since sunk in Singapore territorial waters off Pedra Branca. The master of the vessel had evacuated all the crew from the sinking vessel with all eight crewmembers picked up safely by a passing by Indonesian freighter.