Posted on 09/06/2019 10:26:54 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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The U.S. media has already bored of this story, and moved on, since there were no “assault weapons” involved.
Who was standing watch?
I am betting on murder suicide arson.
'I think now people will pay a lot more attention,' she said.
One of the crew was.
Captain reportedly made two mayday calls and ‘was the last to leave the boat’
Horseclinton on the second part, the first should be easy to confirm.
Interesting that they’ve been unable to recover and identify just ONE person.
Smoking grass or mainlining, and fire started, accelerants in the vicinity caught fire.
Good question.
Another poster wrote on another thread that it was standard practice when anchored to have an anchor watch through the night to make sure the boat didn't slip the anchor and drift into shore.
This article makes no mention of an anchor watch.
I’d accept that he was the last ALIVE to leave the boat.
Many news reports have the captain telling the coat guard that “they were locked in”. the coast guard tells the captain to “go back and unlock it so they can get out.
Why has this disappeared?
is the captain supposed to lock his guests inside the cabin at night?
Could be. I'm betting that one of the lithium batteries ignited while on the charger overnight.
I posted this on another thread, but it bears repeating here. (See: Once the fire started, it was too late for many on board the Conception)
When a LIPO goes up, it happens very quickly and without warning. It's a very hot burning, hard to extinguish fire that puts out dense clouds of toxic white smoke. It's possible that, even with a watch occurring on schedule, the fire could start and quickly get out of control. I'm talking seconds here, not minutes. So, even if the E exit weren't blocked, the odds of the passengers finding their way out would be almost impossible, especially with panic setting in.
Here's the real danger in a situation like that. As I wrote, consumer-grade LIPOs have the protection circuit. The packs w/o the circuit are considered hobby-grade. You can charge hobby-grade LIPOs without the circuit, but it requires the use of a smart charger. This could be in the form of a human being, as was the case in the early days of R/C model LIPO usage. (circa-2000) Or, you can use a smart charger that monitors all the cell voltages and adjusts input to each cell accordingly. There are no consumer-grade smart chargers.
Since consumer-grade LIPOs have the protection circuit, the charger can be a dumb charger that simply uses a pre-determined schedule to charge the batteries. This is what all modern consumer-grade electronic devices use.
Here's the catch. If you use a hobby-grade LIPO with a modern dumb charger, it almost guarantees that, at some point, you'll have a LIPO conflagration due to cell imbalance. Here's the double catch. There is no way to visually distinguish a good LIPO that has the circuit from the cheap chicom knock-off w/o the circuit.
Interesting that the crew escaped, the passengers did not.
If I couldn’t sleep on shore and join the boat in the morning, I would want to bring my own tent and bedding and sleep up on deck.
The guy paid to plant the bomb.
here are quotes:
The captain apparently reports a fire and provides a location. The dispatcher is heard saying, “And there’s 33 people on board the vessel that’s on fire, they can’t get off? ... Roger, are they locked inside the boat? ... Roger, can you get back on board and unlock the boat, unlock the door so they can get off? ... Roger, you don’t have any firefighting gear at all? No fire extinguishers or anything?”
According to Fox News, nobody was.
Bet there are new regulations requiring all these boats to have a second set of stairs away from the galley. Actually, the industry has been lucky this hasn’t happened before.
“one of the searing questions” Not funny to make puns, author Lauren.
However, in my humble opinion, these boats should be built (or modified) with two exits, aft and stern.
If it cuts down on the number of passengers, increase rates to compensate.
The emergency escape hatch as currently designed is inadequate even under ideal conditions.
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