A platform supply ship (PSV) reportedly abandoned in Mexico has capsized and sunk.
The 2,200-dwt Caballo Eclipse (built 1985), owned by restructuring domestic owner Oceanografia, went down off Carmelite island on 27 January in a storm, local media reported.
La Jornada Maya cited the country's maritime authority as saying that it had developed a hull crack in December.
This got wider by about 1 metre this month, causing water ingress.
It is partially submerged in a listing position.
In 2015 a Mexican judge permitted the offshore vessel operator to return to regular operations nearly 10 months after descending into insolvency proceedings amid a fraud scandal.
Oceanografia had entered into court restructuring in July of that year.
Mexico’s government had already taken over control of the company in February 2014.
This month, a federal judge approved for the third time an agreement to restructure its debt.
