And unfortunately after the collision the oil tanker caught on fire with the 32 crew members including 30 Iranians and two Bengalis still unaccounted for.
Search teams off Western India have found 26 more bodies from an oil barge that sank during a tropical cyclone on Monday. They're still looking for 49 others.
The ship's owner, company Stena Bulk, said it was unable to contact the ship after unidentified boats and a helicopter move toward it in the Strait of Hormuz.
The owners of the tanker certainly did not intend it to explode but very serious consequences can result from people or organisations not considering the possible results of their actions seriously enough.
Port statistics suggest it's been a record year for the number of oil vessels calling at the ports of Fujairah, with as many as 12,500 vessels stopping at its offshore anchorage area.