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Sunday, 15 December, 2002, 08:37 GMT
In pictures: Channel sinking
Attempts to salvage a cargo ship which sank in the English Channel while carrying 3,000 luxury cars were due to resume on Sunday.

The Norwegian-registered Tricolor was in collision with the container ship Kariba in thick fog 30 miles east of Ramsgate, Kent. None of the crew was injured.

Tricolor on its side
The Tricolor is still visible at low tide but fog has hampered salvage efforts

Oil slick around ship
Some of the 2,000 tons of fuel oil on board can be seen seeping into the sea

Crew leave a Dunkirk clinic
The Tricolor's crew took to lifeboats when the ship began to list

Crew leave hospital in Dunkirk
They all received medical checks in the French port of Dunkirk

File picture of Kariba in Le Havre
The Bahamas-registered Kariba - pictured here before the collision - limped back to Antwerp, Belgium

Tricolor before the collision
The 55,000-ton Tricolor is valued at about �25m - its cargo �30m

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