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En dykkerbåt sendte ut mayday-signal og gikk på grunn i Langenuen i Vestland fylke mandag morgen.

En båt med tre personer om bord har gått på grunn i sundet Langenuen, i området Bølevika. Det skriver hovedredningssentralen på Twitter.
Alle de tre personene er tatt om bord i et annet fartøy. De fraktes til Haukeland universitetssykehus for sjekk og behandling.
– Siste nytt er at alle tre er tatt om bord en ferge via lettbåten. Luftambulansen har ankommet stedet nå, og det har også ambulansebåten. Sammen vil de ta seg av de tre personene, sier Oddgeir Andersen, redningsleder i HRS Sør-Norge, til TV 2, som først omtalte saken.

kilde https://www.skipsrevyen.no/article/en-baat-med-tre-personer-om-bord-gikk-paa-grunn/
 
Yes - it is the former Finnlines-ferry EUROFERRY OLYMPIA with 288 saved and between 2 and 12 people missed people onboard between Igoumenitsa and Brindisi nearby Corfu. In other pictures from Helicopters it looks really so that the complete ship is on fire and i think it will be a total loss. To repair everything will costs more than to scrap this 27 years old ferry (?).

2014 was on the same route a similar accident with the Visentini-built ferry NORMAN ATLANTIC, built in 2009 and then scrapped also. Maybe on these routes to Greece is the generally problem that truck-drivers are sleeping (and smoking) in the trucks including running engines and coolers. The EUROFERRY OLYMPIA has only 114 beds - so where was all the other 174-186 persons onboard sleeping ??? I think there must be changed urgent the rules: On all night-ferries all persons onboard needs a bed in a cabin (or minimum a pullman-sleeping-seat).

From the 2014 fire on NORMAN ATLANTIC just few weeks ago was a big TV-dokumentation in the german, swiss and austrian TV in the channels N24 DOKU and WELT - maybe you can get this also in Norway via Satellit.
Also here in 2014 was the problem with to less beds onboard and sleeping truck-drivers inside the trucks. Also there was more than 10 people dead or missed until today.
After this accident from 2014 nothing was changed and now happens the same accident again !
 
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"Ullensvang" har visstnok fått et hull i baugen, men det er bare informasjon å hente for abonnenter.
Vet noen noe om dette?
 
Really the same as 2014 with NORMAN ATLANTIC - again ca. 1 douze people still missed after a big fire on a RoPax-Ferry nearby Corfu !
I demand these new safety-rules for all (new) ferries:
- On overnight-ferries all people needs a bed onboard - generally no people allowed on the car-decks
- A new system with big hydraulic-water-pumps which transfer very big volumes of water from the sea directly on to/inside the ship for to finish a fire, generally it is not to believe that a ferry is on fire for a couple of days also in this century now.
- All liveboats must be freefall-liveboats and with the double-capacity. So that in a case of capsize / overturn / list ("Schlagseite") / diagonally all people can use liveboats only on 1 side of the ship.
F.ex. if the Ferry-Capacity is 700 Pax = 10 freefall-boats with 70 seats each on the left- and 10 freefall-boats with 70 seats each on the right side of the ferry.
Only very few extra-costs with newbuildings - but much more safety for all people onboard.

"overcrowded cabins" - "sleep in their vehicles" - "12 truck-drivers missed" - "still burning today"
 
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Finnclipper er på vei fra Malmø for å ta opp ruta til EUROFERRY OLYMPIA. Ikke lenge hun fikk være på Malmø-Travmunde før henne måtte til Middelhavet igjen
 
Was clear that Finnlines has not chosen the sisterships of EUROFERRY OLYMPIA, Finntrader or Finnpartner.
Only the Finnclipper has much more cabins and 452 beds - with Finntrader and Finnpartner it would be the same problem also in future again that these ferries are to small for the route to Greece.

The question is now what happens with Travemünde-Malmö. The next "regulary" free available Grimaldi-ferry is not before aug. 2023 when the new FINNSIRIUS newbuilding will replace EUROPALINK (or Finnswan) between Sweden and Finland. Maybe they will operate TRA-MAL now only with 3 ferries for the next 18 month or charter in / buy another (used) ferry ? F.ex. Visentini-RoPax from 1997 and 2011 are available actually on sales/charter websites.

Total-loss, also the bridge and many cabins damaged / destroyed.

In Marine-traffic AIS the ship is registered as "High-Speed-Craft" and the last departure was 18.2. in Igoumenitsa 1:48 = 48min delayed. After 4:00 the fire onboard was detected.
 
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FELICITY ACE med tusener av nye biler om bord brenner fortsatt i Atlanterhavet, og eksperter har ikke funnet ut hvordan brannen skal slukkes.
 
"Ullensvang" har visstnok fått et hull i baugen, men det er bare informasjon å hente for abonnenter.
Vet noen noe om dette?
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Sjøfartsdirektoratet har vore på tilsyn i Volda etter at det vart oppdaga ein skade. Fergen ligger i opplag som reserve , men vi ønsker tilsyn på skade,
 
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- A new system with big hydraulic-water-pumps which transfer very big volumes of water from the sea directly on to/inside the ship for to finish a fire, generally it is not to believe that a ferry is on fire for a couple of days also in this century now.
- All liveboats must be freefall-liveboats and with the double-capacity. So that in a case of capsize / overturn / list ("Schlagseite") / diagonally all people can use liveboats only on 1 side of the ship.
I agree that all cargo spaces should be protected by a water mist system, but big volumes of water will make the ship unstable fast. There's already a requirement for 100% lifeboat capacity on either side of the ship. I don't think freefall lifeboats is the way to go for passenger ships. They are complicated enough for safety trained crew with medical certificates.
 
All couple of years now such a big fire-accident with a big ferry with many people dead or/and injured - this can not be the solution ! Also with DFDS LISCO GLORIA 2010 it was the same... .

It is clear - to much water fast inside the ship can be a stability-problem - but maybe it is possible to construct a water-system so that on the 1 - 2 top car/truck-decks the water can be brought fast - and then the water is running fast again overboard (and not down to the lower truck-deck) - similar system as with dishes-cleaning-machines - just much bigger and in a lot of parts separated. The same with the cabin-decks, bridge etc. . So in the actually case - maybe there is no easy solution for the lower truck-deck - but i thing it must be possible to stop burning trucks, cabins etc. on the upper decks very fast. It is totally crazy that because of a - at the beginning very small - fire the complete ferry is burning some days always !
And then - if there is no fire anymore on the upper decks the rescue-teams (firemen) can go fast on the ship and try to go to the lower truck-deck also. But if the complete ship is burning in all parts and on all decks there is no chance to reach the lower decks.

LISCO GLORIA 2010, NORMAN ATLANTIC 2014, EUROFERRY OLYMPIA 2022, all 4, 6, 8 years happens the same ! Maybe more other ferry-fire-accidents - just i remember these only.
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LIFEBOATS:
In the most accidents there was to less liveboats. F.ex. i have seen a very big documentation in TV about COSTA CONCORDIA, there was the same problem as often - only on 1 ship-side it was possible to use the liveboats, then there was some problems with the Davits / liveboats / crew - so only some of the liveboats was possible to used, some boats also not 100% full - many other people was waiting for helicopters or other ships still onboard. If it would be happen on the open sea and not nearby an island it would be much more dead people. Here now with EUROFERRY OLYMPIA it was also very lucky that there was a bigger Coast-guard ship very close nearby when the accident happens.

Maybe freefall-boats are not the 100% perfect solution also - but i think that there are in generally much better chances in big accidents to get much more people rescued as with "old-style" boats which must send slowly down to the sea on the board wall. At the last accidents there was some lucky circumstances (nearby the coast, no storm etc.) - but what happens in a big storm with high waves on the open sea ?
I think that this "old" liveboat-system is totally crazy - cruise-ships / ferries with 4000, 5000, 6000 (mostly old) people onboard - if there is a big accident in a stormy night on the open sea far away from the coast it will be a very high number of dead people.

My proposal is so many big free-fall-boats as possible on the lowest possible decks (just above the truck-decks on ferries, if the truck-decks are the decks 3 + 4 the life-boats must be on 5 and 6) so that the fall-hight down to the sea is so low as possible. Then the boats can be constructed as double-deckers so that from 2 decks the people can go fast inside.
Is possible to construct it so, that the doors are at the head-side of the boats and the place on the ship is so, that is easy to come inside.

Then with helmets, good seats with head-protection and good strong seatbelts it must be possible to rescue 99% or more of the people.

The same with "Überlebensanzüge" - why not on ferries and cruise-ships also as normal standard ?
Produced in very high numbers in the cheapest asian countries a price of only ca. 100/150,- Euro would be realistic.

So my summary-proposal:
- Construction of a new better / bigger water extinguishing system onboard
- Under each bed onboard 1 life-jacket, 1 ski-helmet + 1 "Überlebensanzug"
- free-fall-liveboats, f.ex. a 1000 Pax-ferry = 10 boats on each side for 100 Pax each (maybe double-deck constructed, 60+40)
- very good smooth seats inside the liveboats with belts and head-protection

Yes - all this costs some extra-money for each new ship but it is pocket-money in compare with the totally-costs of a new big ship - and produced in many 100.000 pieces directly from the fabric in Bangladesh etc. the prices per piece are much lower possible than today. And what is the alternative ? Also the next 100 years all ca. 5 years an ferry-accident with many dead people ? And also a very big accident in similar way as ESTONIA 1994 (852 dead) or SEWOL 2014 (304 dead of 476) can not be locked out for the future.
 
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