Coming up on the Sky News Daily with Menio Patterson, two ships have collided in the North Sea.

As they continue to burn, there are fears of an environmental disaster.

So how bad could it get?

So long has collided with tanker Stena Immaculate in the outer anchorage.

Both vessels are abandoning.

Just before 10 on Monday morning, the cargo ship Solong crashed into the Stena Immaculate,

an oil tanker that was anchored off the coast of East Yorkshire. Now, thankfully,

all but one of the crew on board the vessels were recovered,

but attention obviously now turns to the potential environmental effects, and they could be catastrophic. Thomas Moore is our science correspondent, and he joins us from England's East Coast,

but you might be a better place to tell us specifically where you are, Thomas, and why?

I am at the RSPB Reserve at Bempton Cliffs. It's extremely windy. It's very important for nesting seabirds.

Half a million will be gathering here along these cliffs. It's about 100 meters down to the sea here the waves are really

beginning to pick up as the wind blows in from the north now over on the horizon is the sight of the

collision we can't see it from here but of course these seabirds are feeding far out to sea as they

prepare to have their young in the next few weeks. So this is an

area where people are very concerned about the impact that this disaster could have on wildlife.

Talk to me about these two vessels, the Solong and the Stenna Immaculate, because a lot of the

environmental concerns stem not just from the fuel that they would

be carrying to power the ships of course but what they were carrying as cargo yes indeed so the tank

was carrying jet fuel or kerosene that's a very light kind of oil and it is extremely explosive

which is why we saw an intense fire yesterday,

but also if it gets onto the surface of the water, it tends to evaporate quite quickly.

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