Falklands: Le Boréal 2015 engine-room fire ignited by clogged fuel filter, says report

Thursday, July 21st 2016 - 08:17 UTC

Full article 8 comments

French maritime authorities have released the engine room fire incident report of cruise Le Boreal on 17 November 2015, which forced the air evacuation of some 90 passengers and crew to the Falkland Islands, while the rest were transferred to her sister ship L'Áustral. According to the report the fire was due to a clogged fuel filter element, which was disassembled under pressure by a crewmember and thus started leaking fuel. Read full article

Comments

Disclaimer & comment rules

Frank
Guess she had taken bunkers on her last call in RGland..... they would have sold her that filthy black venezualan crap...
Jul 21st, 2016 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Klingon
What an imbecile mechanic, changing the fuel filter next to a hot turbo.
Jul 21st, 2016 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Conqueror
@2. French, I suppose!
Jul 21st, 2016 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
ChrisR
@ 3 Conqueror

I suspect they were Philippinos or some other cheap labour used in automated engine rooms nowadays.
Jul 21st, 2016 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Frank
@ 4 I know of two cases, straight off the top of my head, involving british ships -manned from top to bottom with british people - that ended up with flooded engine rooms...totally flooded- after british engineer peoples had unbolted the main seawater intakes downstream from the seavalve without first closing the valve. ( one we all know about in Estrecho de Magallanes not that long ago)... and a 50,000 ton BP tanker in Kwinana back when BP was British.

You don't need to be cheap to be stupid...

Re the dirty rg diesel... in Ushuaia you have to drive some way out of town to get good diesel.... they have bloody great filtering systems the size of 40 gallon drums right next to the pumps.... and that's the road diesel...
Jul 21st, 2016 - 11:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
golfcronie
@5
How quaint and antiquated typically Argentina
Jul 22nd, 2016 - 06:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
ChrisR
@ 5 Frank
“You don't need to be cheap to be stupid...”

You only have to look at politicians and those 'advising them' to know the veracity of that statement.

One thing I am fairly confident off though, it wouldn't be manned by Frogs!
Jul 22nd, 2016 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
gordo01
@7 ChrisR

You are a fine one to be comparing “stupidity”!
Jul 24th, 2016 - 12:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+

Commenting for this story is now closed.
If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page!