A thermal camera mounted on a tanker anchored near the Stena Immaculate captured the moment the Solong container ship ploughed into the vessel and the subsequent explosion.

The camera also recorded dense fog that could have have prevented the crew of Solong from seeing the Stena Immaculate through the human eye

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