Another ship on fire full of electric cars.

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Dave Angelini
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in Off Grid Solar & Battery Systems #1
I think this is the 4th ship to burn and drift with electric car batteries.

https://gcaptain.com/coast-guard-overflight-footage-reveals-fire-spreading-on-morning-midas-car-carrier-off-alaska-coast/


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  • Dave Angelini
    Dave Angelini Solar Expert Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    #2
    Ouch !  800 electrics from China.


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  • BB.
    BB. Super Moderators, Administrators Posts: 33,693 admin
    edited June 6 #3
    Something like 3,000 cars total. Destine to Mexico. 
    Bill
    PS should add ship has a 6,000(car) capacity.
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  • Dave Angelini
    Dave Angelini Solar Expert Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
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    I read the fire originated in the electric vehicle area. Wonder what chemistry in the batts?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFhhvr_afws

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  • Marc Kurth
    Marc Kurth Solar Expert Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭✭
    #5
    Ugly event, any way you look at it. I would also like to know more details, but these events will certainly increase insurance costs for ocean shipping - which is already considerable;
    I always have more questions than answers. That's the nature of life.
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  • Dave Angelini
    Dave Angelini Solar Expert Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
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    Glad the boys on board got home. That is a bad weather place to abandon. Big seas and big winds!
    Also a big distance from the sea to the deck where the lifeboat was.
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  • Skystream
    Skystream Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭
    #7
    What a long journey, alot can go wrong 
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  • Dave Angelini
    Dave Angelini Solar Expert Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
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    The Morning Midas sank Monday in international water off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain, the ship’s management company, London-based Zodiac Maritime, said in a statement.

    “There is no visible pollution,” said Petty Officer Cameron Snell, an Alaska-based U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson. "Right now we also have vessels on scene to respond to any pollution.”

    Fire damage compounded by bad weather and water seepage caused the carrier to sink in waters about 16,404 feet (5,000 meters) deep and about 415 miles (770 kilometers) from land, the statement said.

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  • littleharbor2
    littleharbor2 Solar Expert Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No "visible" pollution huh? Nothing to see here folks...

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  • SumPower
    SumPower Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭
    edited June 26 #10
    New York used to dump thier garbage in the Alantic, once it was under water it was not visible either!
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