fire

[mike41tc]

An 82' Hatteras caught fire and almost sunk yesterday in Fort Lauderdale.
http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI116206/
Mike

 

[Jaxfishgyd]

"The engines were still running?"

 

[Captned]

Interesting, I was looking at a 2008 126' Sunseeker here at the Miami Beach Marina the other day, the crew was giving me a tour. They have a small dedicated generator with a pump that is plumbed to all areas of the vessels bilge. In case of a fire at sea, and they are fighting the fire, one of the crew starts this thing to pump the water OUT of the vessel, hopefully preventing the boat from sinking from all the pumped in sea water.

Never thought about that!

Captned
MBMM

 

[Passages]

Interesting, I was looking at a 2008 126' Sunseeker here at the Miami Beach Marina the other day, the crew was giving me a tour. They have a small dedicated generator with a pump that is plumbed to all areas of the vessels bilge. In case of a fire at sea, and they are fighting the fire, one of the crew starts this thing to pump the water OUT of the vessel, hopefully preventing the boat from sinking from all the pumped in sea water.

Never thought about that!

It happens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdCXDkF0LfA

 

[Sparky1]

"The engines were still running?"

Yeah, I caught that too. Seems to me step #1 would be to kill the engines. Then again, maybe that would have made the fire go out.

 

[captddis]

I think a more likely scenario is that the fire melted the insulation on some wiring and started the engines. I have heard of this happening.

 

[ohiohatteras]

Just got the skinny on what happened.....here's what I heard:

The boat was never on fire.
A turbo quit and an exhaust hose broke in the engine room. The engine was unable to burn all the fuel so itwas filling the engine room with black smoke (exhaust).
Somebody called the fire dept and once they showed up, they wouldn't let one of the crew back on to shut down the engine. Fire Dept sunk the boat trying to put out a fire that never existed!

 

[67hat34c]

Scott, this one sounds familiar. I will not spill the beans.

 

[Boatsb]

I only sooted the engine room. My boat didn't sink. Maybe because I was paying attention.

 

[Pascal]

Nice footage of the Normandie, thank for posting the link. I think it took them a long time to right her and tow her out to the scrapyard...

can't quite understand how anyone, whether captain or firefighter, could mistake exhaust smoke for fire smoke!! doens't make a lot of sense. then why dind't the engine shut down if it was just an exhaust leak?

 

[Sparky1]

can't quite understand how anyone, whether captain or firefighter, could mistake exhaust smoke for fire smoke!! doens't make a lot of sense. then why dind't the engine shut down if it was just an exhaust leak?

Somebody called the fire dept and once they showed up, they wouldn't let one of the crew back on to shut down the engine. Fire Dept sunk the boat trying to put out a fire that never existed!

 

[Pascal]

yeah, that means the crew abandoned ship before investigating the source of the smoke. doenst make a lot of sense to me. if you get smoke, you check where it's coming from,if possible shut down all machinery, kill the battery switches, etc...

somethign still doens't add up.

 

[Sparky1]

Yeah, it does sound strange that the crew left the boat like that regardless of whether or not they were allowed back onboard. I'm sure the insurance company will get to the bottom of it.

 

[67hat34c]

Hope the crew has their stories strait.

 

[mike41tc]

I taked to a Captain who talked to the crew right after the (fire?). He couldn't get much info said they must have been told not to discuss it.
Mike

 

[Trojan]

Maybe they weren't on the boat when it started. They may have been warming the engines and went ashore for a Gray Goose.

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