WATCH: Burning cargo ship, damaged oil tanker two days after collision | ABS-CBN News

The ship's captain arrested in connection with a crash into a U.S. flagged tanker off the coast of England is a Russian national, the German company which owns the vessel said on Wednesday (March 12).

British police arrested the captain of a cargo ship on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter on Tuesday, a day after the vessel crashed into a tanker carrying U.S. military jet fuel off the east coast of England, leaving both vessels badly damaged.

The tanker, Stena Immaculate, which carries jet fuel for the U.S. military, was at anchor on Monday when it was struck by the smaller Solong, causing huge fires and explosions, releasing fuel into the sea, and potentially posing a danger to wildlife.

Aerial video on Wednesday showed a gaping hole in Stena Immaculate's hull, with fire damage along its length, while the Solong continued to burn and is badly charred.

Neither vessel is now expected to sink, transport minister Heidi Alexander said in a statement after an earlier assessment had said the Solong was unlikely to remain afloat.

One crew member from the Portuguese-flagged Solong is assumed dead, maritime minister Mike Kane told parliament. Thirty-six people were brought ashore following the incident and no others remain missing, the coastguard said.

(Production: Natasha Montague)

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