Five seafarers died after inhaling poisonous gas
According 
to DNA , the accident on board Varun Shipping’s LPG carrier, which killed five sailors, may have occurred due to a possible human error, a senior company official said yesterday., citing initial investigations.
After the discharge of liquefied petroleum gas, an elaborate exercise is carried out to clean out residues of the cargo for which there is a standard operating procedure, the official said.
“They first remove the residues with inert gases, after which airing is carried out. They (the crew) probably removed the spectacle blind flange partition without realising that the inert gases are yet to be flushed out.”
He said these are not the final findings but evidence collected till now pointed towards this. “There is a standard operating procedure which is in place for carrying out such jobs…they seem to have gone wrong in the sequencing as the inert gases were still present.”
