After four days of being stranded on Bramble Bank in the Solent, the Hoegh Osaka refloated itself. Photograph: Haydn Wheeler/Demotix/Corbis
Salvage experts are working out what to do next about a huge car carrier that unexpectedly refloated itself after being beached on a sandbank just off Southampton.
Plans to deliberately refloat the 51,000-ton Hoegh Osaka were abandoned on Wednesday because the vessel was considered to have taken on too much water.
But on high tide the ship refloated of its own accord and briefly threatened to drift into shipping lanes