Last week, a friend experienced a near-disaster on a Liveaboard (LOB) trip. An engine room fire erupted, but thankfully, they managed to extinguish it quickly, preventing serious damage. Shockingly, all fire alarms had been turned off.
Is Egypt Getting an Unfair Reputation When It Comes to Liveaboards?
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M/Y Scuba Scene
The standard for Red Sea liveaboards is no fire safety...no surprise there. The other Scuba Scene was lost in April 2022. The current boat shows up on Allstar Liveaboard's website, a Florida-based company. I wonder if they own it or just sell trips on the boat.
I was on the Allstar Scuba Scene. Is it the same boat mentioned above as "M/Y Scuba Scene"? I do not know. Probably?
The boat and crew all seemed very professional and I *felt* very safe. But, I did not go around and check that fire alarms were turned on. I did not check escape hatches to make sure they were accessible and would open if needed.
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To clarify: what I meant is not that the boat is unsafe itself, but that if something unforeseen happened, and people had to be rescued, you are now dealing with the Egyptian Navy. That did not come across clearly, and I apologize for that. I was in no way trying to distort your message-just trying to emphasize my worry that the Egyptian Navy has no rescue divers, and that the Egyptian government wants to cover up accidents. Worth noting again is that the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch has warned its citizens about diving on Egyptian LOBs and offered assistance to Egypt in investigating the accidents (which has not been utilized by Egypt.)
I'm unclear on why some people seem to feel like an Egyptian LOB is not safe enough to go on, but a day boat is.
I get that a day boat is unlikely to catch fire and kill you while you're sleeping.
But, it seems like a very real concern is what emergency and search and rescue capabilities are available to help you, no matter when an accident occurs.
Even the day boats can apparently capsize, sink, or whatever. Even burn to the waterline, I suppose.
If your boat capsizes and sinks and you happen to get caught inside for some reason, are you going to be thinking "well, this is okay, because it's just a day boat"?
I get that a day boat is unlikely to catch fire and kill you while you're sleeping.
But, it seems like a very real concern is what emergency and search and rescue capabilities are available to help you, no matter when an accident occurs.
Even the day boats can apparently capsize, sink, or whatever. Even burn to the waterline, I suppose.
If your boat capsizes and sinks and you happen to get caught inside for some reason, are you going to be thinking "well, this is okay, because it's just a day boat"?
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