Porsche - Chở Tàu chở hàng Felicity Ace đã phơi nắng ở Đại Tây Dương
Thousands of cars—including Porsches, Volkswagens, and Lamborghinis—went down with the ship on Tuesday morning.
Felicity Ace, tàu sân bay đã bốc cháy ở Đại Tây Dương vào tháng trước với hàng nghìn chiếc ô tô trên tàu, bị chìm vào sáng thứ Ba.
Thủy thủ đoàn 22 người đã được sơ tán an toàn khỏi tàu vào ngày đám cháy xảy ra.
Salvage operations were underway to extinguish the ngọn lửa, but pin lithium - ion in the electric vehicles on board complicated efforts to put the fire out.
Thousands of cars—including Porsches, Volkswagens, and Lamborghini—have gone down with the giant cargo ship Felicity Ace, đã bốc cháy ở Đại Tây Dương trong gần hai tuần. Một hoạt động trục vớt đang được tiến hành để đưa tàu sân bay - lăn {1}} lăn {2}} đến khu vực an toàn ngoài khơi Azores khi nó bị chìm vào sáng Thứ Ba. Ngọn lửa đã tắt vào thời điểm con tàu đi dưới sóng.
The weather had been rough at the time, a spokesperson for Felicity Ace's Japanese operator, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines transportation company, told Bloomberg. The ship sank after listing to starboard around 220 nautical miles off the Portuguese Azores archipelago at around 9 a.m. local time on March 1. Salvage craft remain posted at the site of the sinking to monitor the situation, according to a thông cáo báo chí from the Felicity Ace Incident Information Centre.
The crew of 22 safely abandoned the ship via helicopter and lifeboat on February 16, the day the blaze first broke out, according to FleetMon, a website that tracks ocean vessels. "The ship is burning from one end to the other ... everything is on fire about five meters above the water line," Captain Joao Mendes Cabecas of the port of Hortas, told Reuters. Ngọn lửa đã tắt vào ngày 25 tháng 2 sau khi các hoạt động trục vớt bắt đầu; nguyên nhân của nó vẫn chưa được biết.
The 656-foot-long vessel was traveling from Germany to the U.S., carrying Porches, Volkswagens, and possibly other cargo. Close to 4,000 vehicles were on board. Many of them were electric and contained lithium-ion batteries, which burn uncontrollably without a massive volume of water to put them out, according to Reuters. These situations require specialized equipment, and it often makes more sense to let the fire burn out on its own. Two tugs sprayed the vessel with water to cool the hull, and the salvage team was able to board Felicity Ace by helicopter. A large salvage craft with additional firefighting capability assisted the operation. By February 25, smoke emanating from the ship was no longer visible.
"Maritime salvage is a complex business," Master Mariner Steven Browne tells Cơ học phổ biến. In most cases, like this one, the vessel owner will contract with a salvage company and the contract will specify the amount the salvor, a person who salvages a ship and items lost at sea, is paid. "The negotiated salvage fee could be a fixed amount or a variable amount based on the time and costs associated with the operation. If specified, the salvor may agree to a 'No Cure, No Pay' provision in which they wouldn't get paid at all if the operation isn't successful. The standard salvage contract that is used is Lloyd's Open Form," says Browne, a faculty member at Học viện Hàng hải Đại học Bang California in Vallejo, California.
If a vessel is salvaged without contract, the salvor needs to bring a salvage claim before a court. "The court will determine the value of the vessel and cargo, the risk to the salvors, and the danger to the vessel and cargo," Browne says. In this case, it's likely the award won't top 50 percent of the total value of the ship and cargo. Most likely the salvor will get only 10 to 25 percent.
Thật không may, có vẻ như không còn gì để trục vớt, vì nó đã bị cuốn theo con tàu.
