Shipping traffic in the busy North Sea has been halted following a crash between two large ships.
A Dutch freight ship sank early Tuesday after colliding with a tanker off the Belgian coast.
All aboard were saved.
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The Netherlands' coast guard spokeswoman said 11 of the 12 crew of the Dutch freighter were rescued from cold North Sea waters and one was being treated for hypothermia.
She added that the Marshall Island-flagged tanker also suffered damage and is anchored by the site of the collision, six miles from the coast near the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
The tanker carrying liquefied natural gas, is not leaking any petrochemicals and is half submerged on a sandbar.
The cause of the collision is not yet known.