ON fire and adrift

[olredalert]

----The lawyers will rake in a fortune on this!.....Bill S

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Today's update:


Statement 7- 25th February, 2022.
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MOL Ship Management (Singapore) updates the situation regarding the ‘Felicity Ace’ car carrier.

There is no oil leakage from the vessel, and the stability of the vessel remains stable. The smoke leaving the vessel has currently stopped and is not visible.


The salvage team on site were able to board Felicity Ace by a helicopter and the vessel has started being towed by the large salvage craft ‘Bear’ to a safe area off Azores.

Two tugs, ‘ALP Guard’ and ‘Dian Kingdom’, together with a large salvage craft with additional firefighting capability ‘V.B. Hispanic’ are escorting the vessel.

​MOL, MOL Ship Management (Singapore), and the salvage team are cooperating fully with local authorities and resources from the Azores to find an early solution to this incident.

Video report here: https://www.autonews.com/automakers-...s-felicity-ace

(the rest of the site is behind a paywall.)

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Lamborghini is reportedly looking at the logistics of restarting Aventador production.

The cars aboard the ACE are reported to be "beyond salvage".

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a3...ce-cargo-ship/

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/l...re-182610.html

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Update:

"No visible flames or smoke coming from the vessel. However, the team reports that there remain high temperatures, especially in the midships section"

"The Captain of the Port of Horta in the Azores, who has been monitoring the firefight and salvage operation, was quoted as saying that they would not permit the hulk to enter their protected waters due to the environmental danger."

Link:

https://www.maritime-executive.com/a...vage-operation

[Lee Stewart]

Massive cargo ship carrying cars sinks in mid-Atlantic

The Felicity Ace sank about 400 kilometers (250 miles) off Portugal’s Azores Islands as it was being towed, MOL Ship Management in Singapore said in a statement. A salvage team had put out the fire.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...edgdhp&pc=U531

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Something-something... post 41 of this thread.

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Our gal just before she had an "unfortunate turn for the worst" and went to Davy Jones locker.

BURNED to a crisp.

"Unfortunately with the ship now at the bottom of the ocean, we may never know what caused the initial fire or contributed to its spread".

Link: https://gcaptain.com/felicity-ace-si...tlantic-ocean/

[Jonesy]

I was at least hoping to see a video of the sinking.....

[Tommy]

Originally Posted by Jonesy

I was at least hoping to see a video of the sinking.....

Sinking or being sunk.


Tommy

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"The Felicity Ace sank 220 nautical miles off the coast of Portugal’s Azores Islands around 9 a.m. local time on Tuesday after being battered by waves and leaning 45 degrees to its starboard side, the ship’s operator said.

Joao Mendes Cabecas, the captain of the nearest port on the island of Faial, told Reuters the Panama-flagged Felicity Ace had sunk as efforts to tow it began due to structural problems caused by the fire"...

"When the towing started... water started to come in," he said. "The ship lost its stability and sank."

"WATER CAME IN when we started to tow it" well you don't SAY? Shazam! Well Gooolllllyyy.. NOBODY could have seen that one coming. Felicity had ZERO chance of coming back and literally everyone knew what would happen and better yet what would be caused to happen.

I have a feeling that the salvage team will not be held responsible. Not responsible for mitigating the list prior to towing and doing the due diligence on the hull breach inspection.

SO I am dedicating this song to our ship and if you follow the lyrics it is strangely appropriate.