Something sounds fishy about this story. The concern is about pollution but no interest in what caused it to list?
How un-PC of you! Don’t you know that the most important thing is not loss of human lives but potential impact on the sea turtles?
NPR would be overly environmentally focused IMO. I see at gcaptain the vessel is in calm seas laid over to port. Seems to me an indication they were shifting ballast, and something failed. Apparently when they went over to port something broke loose inside the hold that then started the fire.
Just a guess.