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Cruise Ship Fire Linked to Fuel Filter
An incident report recently released by French maritime authorities has cited human error in relation to the disassembly of a fuel filter as the cause of an engine room fire on the Compagnie du Ponant (Ponant) owned Le Boréal while it was in the waters off the Falkland Islands on November 17, 2015, South Atlantic.
The report explains that the fire started after a member of the crew disassembled a clogged fuel filter element under pressure, causing a fuel leak to develop.
The resulting fire is said to have broken out around a third diesel generator's turbo-blower.
With the vessel's fire extinguishing system not strong enough to prevent the blaze from spreading, the fire is said to have moved quickly by way of cabling to the upper decks of the engine room.
While the crew is said to have gotten the fire under control soon after it started, the incident knocked the ship's power-plant out, leaving Le Boréal adrift - albeit with backup power.
The captain then dropped anchor and evacuated passengers and nearly all crew.
The ship is said to have been on an 11-day cruise to Antarctica at the time the incident occurred, carrying 347 people onboard, 194 of whom are noted to of been passengers.
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