Fire on safari boat Suzana in Egypt (Red Sea Aggressor)

[kelemvor]

I'm sure I'll keep some laughing for some time, but I don't care. I think ensuring that you have a life vest each in your room and wearing it if you leave in any emergency will work better. For $17 and 10 ounces, I'd suggest taking the smoke & CO alarm on any overnight trip, anywhere.

Eh. Not everyone listens, but some do. I bought CO detectors in 2015 as a result of reading your posts. Both tank gas and hotel room.

Although hotel room CO detectors are cheap, tank testers are not. I ended up with a cootwo because it eliminates the possibility of me being lazy and skipping that CO test.

...and I have actually detected CO in one of my tanks since then. It wouldn't have been enough to kill me but I did find some. After confirming the CO, the dive shop revamped their compressor setup as a result.

 

[rongoodman]

And life vests were not in the cabins but on the upper deck, as the crew explained to us in the safety briefing.

I remember the life jackets being in the cabinet between the beds, and they are pictured as such on the RSA1 website.

 

[Bob DBF]

And life vests were not in the cabins but on the upper deck, as the crew explained to us in the safety briefin

I remember the life jackets being in the cabinet between the beds, and they are pictured as such on the RSA1 website.

They could be in both places, once you abandon ship there is no such thing as too many life jackets. The ones on the upper deck are made to deploy automatically when the ship sinks, for anyone who does not have one a already. This may become a problem in a fire, which is why there should be life jackets in other locations.

Although we go on these cruises to relax, anytime you are on a boat you become a sailor by default. One can either learn about the boat and what you need to do to stay safe and help, or rely on the "trained professionals" to take care of you. Kind of like diving.

Diving and Seamanship



Bob

 

[electric_diver]

9 of the crew have been arrested: 9 crew members of the Marsa Alam burned boat imprisoned on charges of negligence and manslaughter | Hurghadians

 

[DavidFL]

Eh. Not everyone listens, but some do. I bought CO detectors in 2015 as a result of reading your posts. Both tank gas and hotel room.

+1 to @DandyDon; I also bought CO detectors for both tanks (Cootwo) and backpack/hotel room after several threads here. I haven't found any appreciable CO levels in tanks, but wearing the backpack CO detector during a few bike rides surprised me with how close I get to published thresholds when I'm just riding my bike and out in traffic, especially stopped behind some exhaust waiting for a light to change!

And on my last LOB trip, I had small dry bag for a ditch bag that I moved back and forth from my dive station to the room.

Recent events have me checking out the smoke detector links.

 

[scubadada]

9 of the crew have been arrested: 9 crew members of the Marsa Alam burned boat imprisoned on charges of negligence and manslaughter | Hurghadians

That would be the entire crew except for the chefs and stewards. Several crew members I met in 2016 were still on the boat

The reason(s) for the charges are not given in the article. I wonder if it has to do with the night watch, or other things?

 

[Dan]

9 of the crew have been arrested: 9 crew members of the Marsa Alam burned boat imprisoned on charges of negligence and manslaughter | Hurghadians

Thanks for posting it. It sounds like the rule there is that you are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent in Egypt, which is the opposite of USA’s law.

 

[Mike Walker]

9 of the crew have been arrested: 9 crew members of the Marsa Alam burned boat imprisoned on charges of negligence and manslaughter | Hurghadians

Presumably if the dive guides have been arrested so have the boat's owners/shareholders/etc.?

(Who'm I kidding...)

 

[Dan]

I always slept with a grab-bag with a dive torch, my passport, phone and credit card - and kept the cabin door open.

Good tips! Thanks!

 

[michael-fisch]

9 of the crew have been arrested: 9 crew members of the Marsa Alam burned boat imprisoned on charges of negligence and manslaughter | Hurghadians

I'm afraid the the Egyptian authorities are doing the usual by punishing everyone involved, whether guilty or not, as soon as tourist spending is endangered.
Michael