"Ignoramus4438" wrote in message
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_Splendor

According to Wikipedia, the fire occurred because "crankcase split". I
have to wonder what happened exactly, how could the crankcase split,
and if it did split, it must have been a massive oil leak.



I thought ship engines of this size had "open crankcases" with the oil lines
plumbed. I've also been told that being very slow reving two-stroke engines
they sometimes don't have main caps fitted to the conrods.

Oh - just read some more of the article, it says "a crankcase split" so it
could have been on some small ancillary / genset engine.