A cargo ship captain has advised a jury on the Old Bailey that he didn’t lose consciousness or go to sleep within the hours earlier than the vessel he was accountable for crashed.
Vladimir Motin was the one particular person on watch responsibility on the Solong when it hit US tanker Stena Immaculate off the East Yorkshire coast on 10 March 2025, leaving Mark Angelo Pernia, 38, lacking presumed useless.
Motin was requested twice if he had fallen asleep at totally different factors earlier than the crash, to which he replied “no”.
Motin, 59, from Primorsky in St Petersburg, Russia, denies gross negligence manslaughter.
Defence barrister James Leonard KC requested if he had left the bridge to make use of the bathroom.
Motin replied: “I never left the bridge at the material time from 08:00.”
The trial has heard intimately how Motin was utilizing numerous radar programs to trace Solong’s course earlier than it hit the Stena Immaculate.
The captain additionally defined that Pernia was on the bridge between 08:00 to 10:00 GMT finishing up engineering work earlier than the vessels collided.
The court docket beforehand heard Motin advised police he had tried to take handbook management of the ship’s steering when it was one mile (1.6km) away from the Stena Immaculate, however the autopilot didn’t disengage.
The trial continues.
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