‘Heroic’ efforts of crew prevented North Sea ship crash becoming bigger disaster

Water flowing through the damaged hull of the Stena Immaculate oil tanker (Picture: Reuters)The ‘heroic’ crew of the Stena Immaculate stopped a wider disaster after it was hit in the North Sea on Monday morning, a shipping boss has said.Before abandoning ship, workers on board triggered a fire safety system which meant the damage did not spread to other cargo tanks.That meant 17,515 barrels of highly flammable jet fuel was lost when the vessel burst into a fireball – and not m