- A 300-metre-long cruise ship carrying British tourists collided with an oil tanker in the Spanish port of Palma de Mallorca due to strong winds.
- The British cruise ship was carrying thousands of tourists, preparing to disembark during the storm.
- The ship broke its moorings and collided with the Castillo de Arteaga oil tanker.
Cruise ship carrying thousands of Britons crashes into oil tanker in Mallorca, states an Euro News source.
Ship carries thousands of British tourists
The ship was carrying thousands of British tourists when it collided with an oil tanker on Sunday due to strong winds. No serious injuries were reported.
A 300-metre-long tourist cruise ship moored in the Spanish port of Palma de Mallorca collided with an oil tanker on Sunday due to strong winds.
No serious injuries were reported, the Balearic port authority said.
The ship was carrying thousands of British tourists who were preparing to disembark in the middle of the storm.
“A small number of people suffered minor injuries and are being treated by the ship’s medical centre,” a spokesman for P&O Cruises, which owns the cruise ship, said in a statement.
“To allow our technical teams to carry out an assessment, the cruise ship will remain in Palma de Mallorca this evening, with entertainment and activities planned on board.”
One of the people who witnessed the incident captured the scene in a video that has gone viral on social media.
“What a mess. The wind blew the cruise across the harbour like straw. It crashed into the wall and that stopped it… Because if it hadn’t, it would have been blown away,” said the man in the video.
Tanker suffers a hole in its hull
As a result of the collision, the tanker suffered a hole in its hull on the side of the quay, but no oil was spilled into the sea.
Palma’s fire brigade and port police were immediately mobilized.
After a week of an intense heatwave across Spain, a storm of rain, wind, gales, and hail is battering much of the country, especially in the east, the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, which are on orange alert (high-risk) this Sunday and have already caused several incidents.
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Source: Euro News
