Tag: fire onboard

The National Transportation Safety Board scheduled a board meeting for Octοber 20 to consider the agency’s investigation of the fatal, September 2, 2019, fire aboard the dive boat Conception off Santa Cruz Island, California.

NTSB issued an investigation report on the explosion and subsequent sinking of barge Alaganik in the Canal Passage, off Alaska in July 2019, which resulted in one fatality. The investigation identified ignition of gasoline vapor from a fuel cargo tank as key cause of the accident. 

A total of four crew members were recovered dead from the dredger Waymon L Boyd, after the vessel suffered fire at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, Friday. In the morning hours of Friday, USCG Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi watchstanders received reports from witnesses describing a fire in the Port of Corpus Christi.

The containership Cap Jackson reported a fire in its auxiliary engine room, on July 29, as it was preparing to transit Panama Canal.

In its latest investigation report, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) determined the causes that led to the January 2018 engine room fire on board the container vessel MOL Prestige in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia (BC).

A total of 45 crew members were evacuated from the passenger ship MV Filipinas Dinagat, after a fire erupted onboard while the vessel was about 5.5 nm east off Binongkalan Point, Cebu, in the morning of 23 July 2020, the Philippine Coast Guard informed.

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) was called to combat a fire that broke out onboard the Philippine-registered cargo vessel, MV Moreta Venture at the vicinity waters 1.2 nautical miles southwest off Marikaban Island, Batangas, on 20 July.

The ongoing fire onboard the USS Bonhomme was extinguished yesterday, July 16, when teams of military and civilian firefighters finally managed to put out the blaze.

At least seven boats have caught fire at a shipyard in the port of Bushehr in Iran, according to loca media. The fire has been contained, while no casualties were reported.

Attempts to tackle the fire on board the USS Bonhomme Richard Hundreds are continuing for the third day in a row at Naval Base San Diego in California.