Dive Boat Tragedy

[Capt. Debbie]

Living spaces with smoke detectors and CO detectors? Fire hoses that work. Pumps that work on a wooden boat.

There's fire watches. and standing watches. The fire was VERY well advanced before even being noticed. Fire was supposedly started in the kitchen/galley.... it doesn't have windows to notice the ship is emitting an awful lot of light.

Yes some places in boats don't have multiple exits.

There's more to this story than just " sh*t happens" and "we assume risks"

Again... the boat was wood.... screams POS too.

Originally Posted by PaulNreel

If you put a room in your basement you need to have a secondary means of egress. The dive boat passed cost guard inspection and the dive operation seem to be a reputable outfit. I don't think there is any neglegence here (we still need to know what the cook was doing at 3:30am). Given the publicity that this has received I would not be surprised if new regs will require a secondary exit. But current boats will be grandfathered and new boats wil have them.

The thing I find curious is how violent the fire was. When I go offshore the hull of the boats is metal (Aluminum?) and there is little flamable materials on deck. I just don't see what could have sustained the fire.

Datacenters have stopped using Halon for safety reasons. Halon shut a fire down immediatly, great stuff. But Halon is heavier than air and anybody below deck will have a problem breathing.

We depend on the captain and crew to keep us safe, they usually do, but there is risk that cant be removed by regs.