On 30/05/2021 08:40, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

Yes certainly container ships do have fires but most are extinguished by the
on board systems pretty fas. I can only assume that in this case it was one
of those perfect storm occasions where everything was stacked in favour of
mayhem.

Unfortunately in the world as it is with complex needs of cargo, eventually
mistakes will occur, but really in this case surely the containment system
should not have been allowed to flood a sealed area with flammable gas, it
should have been vented overboard.

It was CO2 in this case, not a flammable gas. Too bad that made the
engines stop.

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Max Demian