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In pictures: Channel sinking (Tricolor)

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December 15, 2002

In pictures: Channel sinking

Attempts to salvage a cargo ship which sank in the English Channel while carrying 3,000 luxury cars were due to resume on Sunday.

The Norwegian-registered Tricolor was in collision with the container ship Kariba in thick fog 30 miles east of Ramsgate, Kent. None of the crew was injured.

 

Tricolor on its side
The Tricolor is still visible at low tide but fog has hampered salvage efforts

 

Oil slick around ship
Some of the 2,000 tons of fuel oil on board can be seen seeping into the sea

 

Crew leave a Dunkirk clinic
The Tricolor’s crew took to lifeboats when the ship began to list

 

Crew leave hospital in Dunkirk
They all received medical checks in the French port of Dunkirk

 

File picture of Kariba in Le Havre
The Bahamas-registered Kariba – pictured here before the collision – limped back to Antwerp, Belgium

 

Tricolor before the collision
The 55,000-ton Tricolor is valued at about £25m – its cargo £30m

 

Bron: BBC News, 15-12-2002;