1998 Cruise Ship Fire

The MSC has agreed that future large passenger ships should be designed for improved survivability based on the time-honoured principle that a ship is its own best lifeboat.

1998 cruise ship fire. Published 26 November 1999. Eight passengers were hospitalized the Miami-Dade County Fire Department said as were two tugboat crew members. A fire on board MSC Lirica which seems to be originated in an empty lifeboat on deck 6 was reported to the emergency services earlier today in Corfu where the ship.

Fire On the afternoon of July 20 1998 Ecstasy departed the Port of Miami Florida en route to Key West Florida with 2565 passengers and 916 crew members aboard. Cruise Ship Catches Fire Off Florida. Carnivals passengers and crew members were extremely lucky in that incident.

Fire crews appeared to have brought the blaze under control by 430pm. On 21 August 1998 cruise ship Edinburgh Castle was west of Cape Carvoeir Portugal. We dont have any details of how the fire has st.

There were a couple of interesting photographs of the fire which erupted aboard the Carnival Ecstasy in 1998 as the cruise ship was trying to said out of Government Cut at Miami Beach. Fire crews appeared to have brought the blaze under control by 430pm Credit. Cruise ship fire aboard Carnival Ecstasy July 20 1998 after leaving the Port of Miami with 2557 passengers and 920 crew aboard with 60 people injured.

Luca Biondolillo spokesperson for the cruise line told USA TODAY. The ships on-board system did not suppress the fire which charred the entire stern of the ship. The fire on the second deck quickly spread Monday to two decks above and the outside mooring area where nylon rope fed the flames president Bob Dickinson said at a news.

The two photos below via Reuters I have never seen before. A fire broke out on the car deck of the Norman Atlantic while the ferry was traveling from the Greek port of Patras to Ancona in Italy. About 60 people were reported injured most for smoke inhalation.