{"id":62360,"date":"2025-06-17T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/24-crewmembers-rescued-after-tanker-collision-in-gulf-of-oman\/62360\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:51:15","slug":"24-crewmembers-rescued-after-tanker-collision-in-gulf-of-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/24-crewmembers-rescued-after-tanker-collision-in-gulf-of-oman\/62360\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Crewmembers Rescued After Tanker Collision in Gulf of Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>[Breaking]&nbsp;<\/em>Early reports indicate that two tankers have collided off the coast of Khor Fakkan, UAE, possibly resulting in a fire.<\/p>\n<p>AIS data provided by Pole Star&nbsp;confirms that the tankers <em>Front Eagle<\/em> and <em>Adalynn <\/em>appear to have had a collision at 2120 hours GMT on Monday.&nbsp;NASA FIRMS satellite infrared sensor observations confirm a heat source (potential fire) in the same location at 2140 GMT. Photos of a large fire purportedly off Khor Fakkan have been circulating on social media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The UAE&#039;s coast guard confirmed that a collision occurred, and reported&nbsp;that all 24 crewmembers were safely rescued from <em>Adalynn<\/em> on Tuesday morning (local time).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Global risk intelligence agency Ambrey says that it is aware of an unspecified incident at a position about 22 nm off Khor Fakkan, the same area identified by AIS tracking.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I believe I found the &quot;ships on fire in the Gulf of Oman&quot; cause.<\/p>\n<p>Appears that the tankers ADALYNN and FRONT EAGLE collided, possibly setting one of the vessels ablaze. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eYKeqdN3fI\">pic.twitter.com\/eYKeqdN3fI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Osinttechnical\/status\/1934810799639232835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An early analysis by maritime expert Prof. Sal Mercogliano suggests that as the two vessels neared each other in a crossing situation, one of them made a late turn to starboard instead of maintaining course and speed. He noted that the tanker had been subject to conspicuous AIS spoofing earlier in its voyage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Breaking]&nbsp;Early reports indicate that two tankers have collided off the coast of Khor Fakkan, UAE, possibly resulting in a fire. AIS data provided by Pole Star&nbsp;confirms that the tankers Front Eagle and Adalynn appear to have had a collision at 2120 hours GMT on Monday.&nbsp;NASA FIRMS satellite infrared sensor observations confirm a heat source (potential &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[17862,4213,4973,1497,153,4461,897],"class_list":["post-62360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-ambrey","tag-collision","tag-crewmembers","tag-gulf","tag-oman","tag-rescued","tag-tanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62360","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=62360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/62361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}