Ship carrying 3,000 cars ablaze off Dutch coast, crew member dead

Reuters ^ | July 26, 2023 | By Charlotte Van Campenhout and Rishabh Jaiswal

[Oldeconomybuyer]

SUMMARY

* Some crew members had to jump overboard

* Vessel was en route from Germany to Egypt

* Still ablaze; salvage experts examine next steps

* 25 electric vehicles onboard

AMSTERDAM, July 26 (Reuters) - A fire blazed on a ship off the Dutch coast with nearly 3,000 vehicles on board on Wednesday, killing one member of the crew and injuring several others, the coastguard said.

Dutch broadcaster NOS said all the crew were Indian.

[zeugma]

I guess they could make special slots on the ship for electric cars, from which they can be ejected into the sea in case of fire. But that will raise the transport costs.

An EV trebuchet! I would probably pay to see that in operation, especially at night.

[roadcat]

You better garage your car because the continuous salt environment will eat it up. Problems with combustible EVs are going to be worse.

Makes sense. I live a couple miles over a hill from Pacifica south of San Francisco. When visiting Pacifica I see lots of parked cars that have body rot from the salt water environment. Also, I recently watched a YouTube video of a guy that bought a battery pack from an EV, where the EV was damaged in an accident. He had hoped to swap the battery pack into his old EV, but found the battery pack external casing had rust and the internals got compromised. Total loss, as the pack wouldn't work in his car after he installed it.

So, EV's need to be inspected after years on the road, to make sure the battery packs are being compromised by salt water and resultant rust. It happens to the underbody and most folks wouldn't know about it.

[zeugma]

Who manufactured the electric cars?

more importantly, where were the batteries produced?

[minnesota_bound]

This site has news of ships getting damaged.
https://gcaptain.com

[yuleeyahoo]

A shipload of EV’s

[minnesota_bound]

All the red marks are ships a blazing... : )

Ship tracking with MarineTraffic
https://shiptracker.live

[Captain Rhino]

Seems so. The Daily Mail has a better article with a lot of images:

Race to salvage sinking ship carrying 350 Mercedes and 3,000 vehicles

https://mol.im/a/12338705

[Captain Rhino]

Seems like both could be extrapolations of Occam’s Razor:

The simplest solution/explanation is more likely to be the correct one.

Was it:

Malice/Conspiracy?

Or:

Stupidity/Human Incompetence?

The choice may lie in the details of the incident/disaster and the generosity/mercy of the person rendering judgement.

[Captain Rhino]

Seems like both could be extrapolations of Occam’s Razor:

The simplest solution/explanation is more likely to be the correct one.

Was it:

Malice/Conspiracy?

Or:

Stupidity/Human Incompetence?

The choice may lie in the details of the incident/disaster and the generosity/mercy of the person rendering judgement.

[Captain Rhino]

Pardon the double post.

[PLMerite]

"I guess they could make special slots on the ship for electric cars, from which they can be ejected into the sea in case of fire."

[dennisw]

I guess they could make special slots on the ship for electric cars, from which they can be ejected into the sea in case of fire. But that will raise the transport costs.

Have a side of the transport ship that can be dropped off. Like in a James Bond movie. Each EV is parked near that side, each EV is set up with its own catapult to blow it off the ship. To Davey Jones locker.

[dennisw]

Witty!!!

[Texan4Life]

Huge ship fire off Dutch coast blamed on electric vehicle

A ferocious ship fire that killed one person and sparked fears of an environmental disaster has been blamed on an electric vehicle.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/environment/huge-ship-fire-off-dutch-coast-blamed-on-electric-vehicle/news-story/659c11d3cb257523ffd9413275f2a42c