Being an ex-navy firefighter, I can tell you that fighting a shipboard fire is not nearly as easy as it sounds, yeah, there is plenty of water around, but there are many other issues to deal with. I'm willing to bet the crews of those ships receive minimal training regarding firefighting. Probably something along the lines of....when it catches fire, call for help and abandon ship.
I think there are international standards for training, which includes firefighting.
There are International Standards for securing cargo too, appear to have been overlooked here.
Darryn
One year on and its happened again !
It happened in a major English Channel shipping lane 14 miles off Newhaven, East Sussex, at 0815 GMT.
The vessel, which is being escorted to Portsmouth by a coastguard tug, is not thought to be at
imminent risk
.
A Coastguard spokeswoman said the wood could be heading towards Dungeness in Kent, not the East Sussex coast at Newhaven as previously thought.
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Picture froim last year
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So much for statistics <img src="<>/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin" height="15" width="15" />
My gardening shed is in there somewhere.