Sri Lanka recovers black box from sinking ship, aborts dive

The Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl carrying hundreds of tonnes of chemicals and plastics has been slowly sinking after a fire. COLOMBO: A black box from a container ship sinking off Sri Lanka was recovered but a dive on Sunday to check for oil leaks had to be aborted, the navy said.and is expected to help investigators review procedures and instructions ahead of an accident.

Sri Lankan authorities hope the black box will provide details of the ship's movements and its communications with the harbour in the capital Colombo, where it had been due to dock. The ship, carrying 25 tonnes of nitric acid and a huge amount of plastic raw materials, was heading to Colombo from Gujarat, India.

Sri Lankan officials have said an acid leak since May 11 may have sparked the blaze. Ports in Qatar and India had refused to offload the leaking nitric acid, they added.Police on the island nation launched a criminal investigation, interviewing the vessel's skipper and chief engineer - both Russians - and its chief officer, an Indian, and seizing their passports.

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