Ferry ablaze: Brindisi/Igoumenitsa RoPax

Shouldn’t like to be on that ship it looks like all decks burnt out🤔 dreadful hope everyone is safe🤞
 
Also thoughts out to the crew of the vessel and others in attendance, who would be fighting it, and trying to get the passengers to safety.

Cant open link on my ship, so is it at sea or in port?
 
P Bentley said:
Also thoughts out to the crew of the vessel and others in attendance, who would be fighting it, and trying to get the passengers to safety.

Cant open link on my ship, so is it at sea or in port?
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P Bentley said:
Also thoughts out to the crew of the vessel and others in attendance, who would be fighting it, and trying to get the passengers to safety.

Cant open link on my ship, so is it at sea or in port?
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Thats a gonner, Major fire inside and outside. Its also dead in the water. I think that fire has been going for a number of hours too.
 
Flippin' heck.

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That was well alight :( BBC currently indicate about 10 are not accounted for. Not good.
 
Pugsy said:
I used to train the merchant navy in ship firefighting, a very harsh and dangerous environment to fight fires.
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We have to update training every 5 years, and the refresher courses are always a timely reminder of how quickly it can get out of hand.
Fire is always the thing we are most concerned with on board, and thankfully with more modern vessels fitted with sprinklers for accommodation and water fog systems now in engine spaces (in place of Co2 or Halon) etc our protection has improved however, there are still many older vessels with less effective FFE in service carrying passengers and cargo,
Seafarers are still trained regularly on fire fighting techniques however the courses did used to be more robust, with the two and three story mock ups of ships superstructure, and several fires going at once for us to put out.
It was frightening at times, and that was knowing we had the trainers outside and in, with plenty of escape doors.
Its bad enough on vessel where the entire crew have training, but when I see that sort of damage on a vessel carrying passengers it makes me shudder at the very thought of it.
Satellite link permitting I will be scouring the maritime websites for accurate updates and hoping that all pax and crew are safe.
 
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What a mess! Hope the missing persons are found ok.

I wonder how you would fair for vehicle insurance on there? I seem to remember when the Cherbourg Rosslare ferry encountered storm and the HGV's broke loose and caused absolute carnage, there is some kind of convention limiting payouts?
 
jongood said:
What a mess! Hope the missing persons are found ok.

I wonder how you would fair for vehicle insurance on there? I seem to remember when the Cherbourg Rosslare ferry encountered storm and the HGV's broke loose and caused absolute carnage, there is some kind of convention limiting payouts?
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Yes there is. There was a thread about it on here recently .
 
jongood said:
What a mess! Hope the missing persons are found ok.

I wonder how you would fair for vehicle insurance on there? I seem to remember when the Cherbourg Rosslare ferry encountered storm and the HGV's broke loose and caused absolute carnage, there is some kind of convention limiting payouts?
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I remember reading a thread about insurance cover on the high seas, on here a few years ago. The upshot of it was owners of lost motorhomes would receive no pay-out due to maritime laws and regulations.
 
This cannot be the same one that has been on the internet for the past few days can it??

It said it was a car carrying ship with lots of Porsche's on board.
Come to think about it, it said that was adrift in the Atlantic and all the crew had been taken off.

Seems a strange coincidence?? :unsure:
 
L' Hobo said:
This cannot be the same one that has been on the internet for the past few days can it??

It said it was a car carrying ship with lots of Porsche's on board.
Come to think about it, it said that was adrift in the Atlantic and all the crew had been taken off.

Seems a strange coincidence?? :unsure:
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That was off the Azores I seem to remember, Porsches, Lamborghinis and some other high spec model heading for a VW place in the States.

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maritime insurance is much the same as road transport i think its based on the price of gravel probably single figures per tonne
 
mitzimad said:
maritime insurance is much the same as road transport i think its based on the price of gravel probably single figures per tonne
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In my Trucking days (70's) when my truck was on a ferry that hit the Dover dock still doing 4 knots, all we could claim was minimal as accidents at sea were then (perhaps still are) covered by a Swiss company agreement that, if I remember rightly, was classed as 'an act of God'.

Sadly, a couple of Vim Vos trucks that we're positioned behind the doors, got badly smashed up, while mine, which was about 4 rows back, had hardly any damage but as we could not get off the Ferry we had to travel for the next 3 days just picking up passengers crossing the channel until the doors could be open again. (cannot remember why we didn't all just reverse off, possibly, it only had front doors and we reversed on???)
 

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