Car Carrying Ship on Fire

[jerseyguy]

“Cargo Ship Carrying Porsche, VW Vehicles Headed for U.S. Catches Fire in Atlantic”

Reportedly 4000 vehicles on board including Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini and VWs.

Read one report on a Porsche blog that one guy ordered his car in March, 2021 and it is on the ship.

The insurance payouts are going to be astronomical.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39123584/cargo-ship-porsche-vw-fire-atlantic/

 

[SloopJonB]

Should have ordered an original 930 - they air freighted those.

 

[Chris in Santa Cruz CA]

That's a fucking ugly marine insurance and environmental shit show. Guess the value of my 2012 Touareg just went up.

 

[Snaggletooth]

That's a fucking ugly marine insurance and environmental shit show. Guess the value of my 2012 Touareg just went up.

ummmm, no               

 

[Rain Man]

Weird.  The video showed the helicopter hovering above the deck of the tanker recovering crew in a basket.  Why didn't they just land the helicopter on the deck?

 

[Chris in Santa Cruz CA]

ummmm, no               

oh, yee of little faith

 

[Chris in Santa Cruz CA]

thats a lot of eggs in one basket and one butt ugly basket

 

[Snaggletooth]

ummmm, no               

oh, yee of little faith

I wille waite patientley my frende.......             

 

[Chris in Santa Cruz CA]

Weird.  The video showed the helicopter hovering above the deck of the tanker recovering crew in a basket.  Why didn't they just land the helicopter on the deck?

you can storm a helicopter and overload it but you cant overload a basket?

 

[Chris in Santa Cruz CA]

I wille waite patientley my frende.......             

not selling until next year and getting a used Audi Q5 with a 3.0T turbo engine so I can kick ass on 80 above 4K feet!

 

[Snaggletooth]

you can storm a helicopter and overload it but you cant overload a basket?

I thick it is possibelle.......  

 

[Ventucky Red]

Guess my question is why wasn't there some type of fire suppression system in the cargo bay or put the ship in "battle-stations" and seal off all bulkheads and contain it?  Don't they have a crew on the ship that is trained for this stuff?

 

[Snaggletooth]

Don't they have a crew on the ship that is trained for this stuff?

Woude you be angrey if I caulled that a silley questione?

 

[Chris in Santa Cruz CA]

Woude you be angrey if I caulled that a silley questione?

the labor market these days is fucked up for sure, but he has a point

 

[Foreverslow]

Guess my question is why wasn't there some type of fire suppression system in the cargo bay or put the ship in "battle-stations" and seal off all bulkheads and contain it?  Don't they have a crew on the ship that is trained for this stuff?

according to a shipping expert, the inside of a RORO is basically hollow as it it nothing but a floating commercial garage.  They have retractable curtains to try to divide the sections, but evidently are not airtight enough to cut off the oxygen.

all power is gone.  Not a good time to climb into a rolling box that is pitch black and its own fire pumps inoperative to fight a fire.  Salvagers are going to earn their pay.

Question is what was the source an EV car in which case pour on water may not be a good idea.

 

[IStream]

Last time this happened, Mazda scrapped them all. Great story, though not without tragedy:

https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-seacowboys/

 

[Ventucky Red]

according to a shipping expert, the inside of a RORO is basically hollow as it it nothing but a floating commercial garage.  They have retractable curtains to try to divide the sections, but evidently are not airtight enough to cut off the oxygen.

all power is gone.  Not a good time to climb into a rolling box that is pitch black and its own fire pumps inoperative to fight a fire.  Salvagers are going to earn their pay.

Question is what was the source an EV car in which case pour on water may not be a good idea.

Seems like one would want to design a fire suppression system that has its own power supply for events such as this...

Woude you be angrey if I caulled that a silley questione?

Did the crew just run? Are they French?

 

[Cal20sailor]

I bet the Porsche, Lambo, and Bentley owners to be were worried about some careless deckhand scratching their new cars.  I wouldn't mind having the job of letting them know what happened.

 

[Autonomous]

Seems like one would want to design a fire suppression system that has its own power supply for events such as this...

Did the crew just run? Are they French?

Well, VW is German, no?