In July we reported about the sinking of a Russian river ship. Well yesterday, fire broke out on the Sergey Abramov. A crew member is still missing as of this post and two people were taken to the hospital. She was still tied up pierside when the blaze happened. The cause is currently being speculated [...]
from Cunard: [The Fire]was swiftly dealt with by the ship’s company and had no impact to any guests, crew or to the structural integrity of the ship.
That’s what the media would want you to think: Norway: Cruise ship in danger of tilting over Norway: Cruise ship listing, may tilt over (CBS News) The sort answer is no. I mean, have we not learned anything from the Normandie? photo courtesy of local twitter user Elisabeth G. from Alesund, Norway
http://www.vgtv.no/#!id=43878 -or- http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4229323.ece
Here’s some raw footage from a Russian news source showing the early parts of the fire. Notice the passengers still onboard and how quickly turing the vessel so that the the smoke blows away. Pretty scary stuff.
Shes listing due to the amount of water sprayed into her. Making her unstable. from Svein Ove Ekornesvag
UPDATE:NRK has more photos. I say explosion in quotes since that’s what is being reported, but I highly doubt that’s what happened. A fire in the engine room killed two crew members and sent nine other crew to the hospital on board the Norwegian Coastal (Hurtigruten) ship Nordlys. The 207 passengers o/b were evacuated [...]
Remember the ship Carnival Splendor. I know you do. In fact the whole world knows of it. It even made it to South Park. The ship is STILL laid up in California after the engine room fire, crippled the ship off of Baja. Well, it just got kicked out of/ sailed from San Francisco. Initially, [...]
Just a month after the Carnival Splendor was incapacitated by an engine room fire, another one has struck an MSC ship. The MSC Musica was scheduled to leave Rio de Janeiro, Brazil yesterday when an engine room fire crippled the ships air conditioning and water purification system. Local Brazilian papers report the following: A principle [...]
Martin Cox over at Maritime Matters, announced that the damage was worse than originally thought to the ship that caught fire off of Baja Mexico. The Carnival Splendor will now be ready by February 20th, 2011. She will be moved soon from San Diego to San Francisco, where she will be dry-docked. Gerry Cahill, Carnival’s [...]
