The Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES), the State Maritime Administration and Azerbaijan State Caspian Shipping Company JSC have issued a joint statement regarding the fire that broke out on a Russian-flagged tanker in the Caspian Sea on April 23, 2016.
On 23 April, the National Center for State Maritime Administration received a SOS signal about a fire accident on the Russian-flagged unladen PALFLOT-2 tanker, which was 110km from the coast and was floating from Azerbaijan’s Dubandi port towards Turkmenistan’s Alaja port.
The Emergency Ministry of Azerbaijan, situated on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea, dispatched a pair of helicopters and a speedboat to the tanker in distress.
Fire on the Russian 2 tanker was extinguished after few hours and then the tanker was under tow to the Baku Deep Water Jacket Factory in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The ministry reported that ten of the eleven crew members on board were rescued while one crew member, identified as the mechanic, was killed in the incident.
The following videos shows an aerial footage of the fire which broke out onboard the Russian tanker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySReJ_B9V90
