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The Indian Coast Gaurd (ICG) on Wednesday shared pictures on Twitter of the fire fighting operations underway on Singapores MVX-Press pearl container

A Singapore-flagged cargo vessel, which caught fire near the Colombo beach last week, may sink, raising severe environmental concerns in the island nation. The cargo vessel was carrying a consignment of chemicals and raw materials for cosmetics from Hazira in Gujarat to Colombo Port.

Indian Coast Guard to celebrate 45th Raising Day today © Provided by The Statesman Indian Coast Guard to celebrate 45th Raising Day today Indian Coast Guard is celebrating its 45th Raising Day on 01 Feb 2021. From a modest beginning with just 07 surface platforms in 1978, ICG has grown into a formidable force with 156 ships and 62 aircraft in its inventory and is likely to achieve targeted force levels of 200 surface platforms and 80 aircraft by 2025. As the fourth largest Coast Guard in the...

Ahead of its 45th Raising Day on Monday, February 1st, the Indian Coast Guard(ICG) has said that their force has grown from operating seven surface platforms in 1978 to operating 156 ships and 62 aircraft as on date. The Indian Coast Guard is the fourth largest Coast Guard in the world and is slated to have 200 surface platforms and 80 aircraft by 2025.   Amid the pandemic year, the Coast Guard has been deploying 50 ships and 12 aircraft every day to maintain vigil within India’s Exclusive E...

New Delhi [India], January 31 (ANI): The Ministry of Defence on Sunday informed that the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) will be celebrating its 45th Raising Day on February 1.

That they actually didnt see a sheen. we got initial reports that there has been seen a sheen one nautical mile by a hundred feet. there are two pipelines to shore, one goes to shell, they report they have not received a production out of this pipeline for some months now. the other one goes to a & r, this one has been active. there is a vessel called the candy apple with firefighting capabilities on site. admiral andrews says the coast guard will obviously take the lead on pollution response. c...

Anything? >> those details, not yet. i think with the recent extinguishing of the fire will help us obviously assess this better. when that fire was going, some of the oil that was coming up as well as the diesel that was on board helped fuel that fire, so it kind of kept us at bay from really getting in there and finding ways to slow this down but, you know, now with -- you know, we kind of move on to the next phase of what this is, you know, we kind of -- you know, we train and plan for this, ...

That this whole thing is under -- under water? >> the coast guard will work closely with bp. bp is the responsible party and they are bringing in the assets we need to mitigate the pollution response. coast guard has hundreds of people coming in to help oversee that effort. bps brought in multiple boats, upwards of 32 different skimming boats. by the end of today, were expecting to have 1 million feet of boom in the area so we can help boom off the pollution. >> all right. officer oberry, thank ...

Raves, and did witnesses say we saw the 12 get into a raft, anything like that in. >> we havent gotten word on any of that. the investigation will come to light once the search and rescue aspect has been concluded and then we go to a pollution response, and then they go into the investigation portion of the case. gregg: i know youre with the coast guard but do you have any idea what happened here, what caused the explosion? >> nothing right now. like i said, our primary focus is the search and r...