{"id":33546,"date":"2023-05-03T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T05:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/deck-blasted-into-air-in-aframax-explosion\/33546\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T05:34:16","slug":"deck-blasted-into-air-in-aframax-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/deck-blasted-into-air-in-aframax-explosion\/33546\/","title":{"rendered":"Deck blasted into air in aframax explosion\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Three crew are presumed dead from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tanker-with-history-of-moving-iranian-oil-catches-fire-off-malaysia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monday\u2019s explosion<\/a><\/span> in Malaysian waters on the 1997-built<br \/>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"color:#00adeb;\" class=\"mt_tooltip\" data-mturl=\"\/en\/ais\/details\/ships\/shipid:211447\/mmsi:626270000\/vessel:211447\" data-mmsi=\"\" data-imo=\"\" data-dwt=\"\" data-yob=\"\" data-typename=\"\" data-typecolor=\"\" data-countrycode=\"\" data-country=\"\" data-info=\"Crude Oil Tanker [GA]\" data-photourl=\"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/file\/2023\/05\/Tanker-with-history-of-moving-Iranian-oil-catches-fire-off.aspx.jpeg\" data-assetname=\"PABLO\" data-assettype=\"Vessel\">Pablo<\/span>, an aframax tanker, with a history of transporting Iranian crude.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic images and videos of the incident have emerged \u2013 with almost the entire deck of the ship being blown into the sky.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Malaysian authorities were able to extinguish the fire yesterday and investigations into how the accident happened are underway.<\/p>\n<p>The ship, which has changed hands three times in the last couple of years, as well as jumping from flag to flag, issued a distress call on Monday afternoon after a blaze was detected. Malaysian authorities were able to rescue 25 of the 28 crew.<\/p>\n<p>The ship, registered in Gabon, a popular flag of choice for sanctions-busting companies, is listed as being owned by Marshall Islands-based Pablo Union Shipping, a single ship shell company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The ship, led by a Russian captain, was in ballast from China to the United Arab Emirates when the blaze broke out.<\/p>\n<p>Footage uploaded to Twitter by maritime analysis firm Tanker Trackers shows the moment the aframax exploded off the coast of southern Malaysia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"Qk8EeYhpoGwBs32VJ5K0ZS7iAaLuOz\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Filmed from the bridge of the VLCC supertanker ENOLA (9251951) some 1.7 nautical miles away, here are the immediate few seconds following the explosion of the Aframax tanker PABLO (9133587) in Riau archipelago. You can see very large parts of her deck flying off to the sides. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k4UIjkriCs\">pic.twitter.com\/k4UIjkriCs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TankerTrackers.com, Inc. (@TankerTrackers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TankerTrackers\/status\/1653423186673823744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\" style=\"\">\n\t    <!-- \/91333190\/SPLASH247_*_Splash247_Article_*_Strip_Slot_*_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\">\n<script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\"><span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/malaysia\/\" rel=\"tag\">Malaysia<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three crew are presumed dead from Monday\u2019s explosion in Malaysian waters on the 1997-built Pablo, an aframax tanker, with a history of transporting Iranian crude.\u00a0 Dramatic images and videos of the incident have emerged \u2013 with almost the entire deck of the ship being blown into the sky.\u00a0 Malaysian authorities were able to extinguish the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanker-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/33547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}