Crew rescued after ship with cargo of baking soda sinks off Andros

[Greek Coast Guard / via Reuters]

Greece has rescued each 9 unit members of a cargo vessel that deed rocks and sank disconnected the South Aegean land of Andros aboriginal connected Wednesday, a Coast Guard authoritative said.

The Vanuatu-flagged freighter, with a unit of 1 Azerbaijani and 8 Turkish nationals, had near Albania with 3,000 metric tons of baking soda ⁠on committee and was bound ⁠for Ukraine when it sank disconnected Andros, the Coast Guard authoritative said.

It was not instantly wide what caused the vessel, ​which was identified arsenic the Corsage ⁠C by authorities, to tally aground. A preliminary probe has been launched into the incident, a authorities authoritative said.

Two ⁠anti-pollution Coast Guard vessels ‌and different ⁠two carrying anti-pollution instrumentality person preemptively deployed a floating oversea obstruction arsenic authorities are acrophobic astir imaginable substance leakage, Greek shipping ministry ​officials said.

Greek Coast Guard footage showed a small vessel deploying yellow ‌floating booms astatine oversea adjacent the Andros shoreline to assistance incorporate immoderate contamination from the stricken ship.

The vessel’s Turkey-based relation could not instantly beryllium reached for comment.

The ​rescue cognition was launched aft the vessel issued a mayday telephone astatine astir 0100 GMT reporting that it had tally aground and was taking successful ‌water.

Greece deployed ​three Coast Guard vessels and a helicopter, while a rider vessel was tasked with locating the sinking freighter, the ⁠officials said.

Two unit members were rescued ‌from the oversea and 7 from a rocky country connected Andros, ​the Coast Guard authoritative said, adding that they had each been taken “in bully ‌health” ⁠to ⁠the island’s clinic.

Turkey’s overseas ministry did not ​immediately respond to a petition for comment. [Reuters]