[Ken522]

Spectacular explosion, considering no injuries .... say a prayer of thanks ....

[atomic_dog]

I watched that video and thought about an archive paper I read decades ago where no less a personage than Admiral Rickover, then a Lieutenant researched the explosion on the USS Maine in Havana Harbor and concluded it was the same thing, a coal => methane explosion. The report was never widely disseminated.

The thing about this that I found interesting is the vessel was bound for Mauritius. I've been there twice and it is a very long voyage from Baltimore. We must be selling cheap coal these days.