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Alert as rig breaks free at sea | |
(about 3 hours later) | |
A tug has been sent to help a North sea oil platform which broke free from one of its tow lines. | |
The decommissioned Hutton TLP was being towed by two tugs en-route to Spain when the incident happened in violent storms. | |
Shetland Coastguard said there was a risk the broken tow chain could damage pipelines on the seabed, about 110 miles north-east of Lerwick. | Shetland Coastguard said there was a risk the broken tow chain could damage pipelines on the seabed, about 110 miles north-east of Lerwick. |
A pollution monitoring flight is expected to survey the area. | A pollution monitoring flight is expected to survey the area. |