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

[scubadada]

I hope you subscribe to Undercurrent. A lot about it in November issue (to subscribers about Nov. 12)!

I am, I'm waiting, thanks

 

[Lorenzoid]

That was before the Year of Dive Boat Fires.

There have always been fires. One of the sites we dived from the Red Sea Aggressor was the remains of a dive boat that had burned.

 

[chillyinCanada]

There are 2 WAOWs. One is the liveaboard in Indonesia & the other is news site, abc Channel 9 WAOW.com in LA that also talk about burning boat. It's confusing, isn't?

WAOW Sinks

The Latest: Authorities confirm fatalities from boat fire

I was talking about the boat. Such a beauty with great reputation.

 

[scubadada]

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

Yes, that's where they were during my trip also

 

[Dan]

It's kind of ironic that the fire happened to an Aggressor boat as supposed to other liveaboard. I thought Aggressor safety standards are more stringent than other liveaboard companies. For example, I have been on two Aggressor boats (Palau Aggressor 2 and Maldives Aggressor 2). They have rule of no charging camera & video light batteries in the cabin to minimize fires due to charger short circuiting while no one is in the room (going diving). The charging stations are on dive deck, outside on the rear of the boat where crew would come around and inspect. Other non Aggressor liveboards that I have been on (13) allow guests to change their batteries in the cabin or in the camera room.

 

[kelemvor]

It's kind of ironic that the fire happened to an Aggressor boat as supposed to other liveaboard. I thought Aggressor safety standards are more stringent than other liveaboard companies. For example, I have been on two Aggressor boats (Palau Aggressor 2 and Maldives Aggressor 2). They have rule of no charging camera & video light batteries in the cabin to minimize fires due to charger short circuiting while no one is in the room (going diving). The charging stations are on dive deck, outside on the rear of the boat where crew would come C around and inspect. Other non Aggressor liveboards that I have been on (13) allow guests to change their batteries in the cabin or in the camera room.

If you search scubaboard posts, you'll find a plethora of complaints about aggressor. This is the first fire that I can recall. Usually it's something like the boat not being in working condition or a female diver assaulted by the captain etc.

 

[FinnMom]

I guess we can't trust overnight charters to keep a crew member on firewatch and smoke & CO alarms in every room. It now seems foolish to go on one without taking your own smoke & CO alarm. $17, 0.6 pounds - why not? https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sale-War...1-manufacture-2-Detector-Alarm-Gas-/828081217

20 some yrs ago my husband received a small travel CO2/smoke alarm as a gift from the insurance company for which he worked.
*** Exactly the proper season to note that this was & still is an excellent small gift idea ****

 

[Dan]

I was talking about the boat. Such a beauty with great reputation.

She was indeed.

Courtesy of Liveaboard.com

 

[Dan]

If you search scubaboard posts, you'll find a plethora of complaints about aggressor. This is the first fire that I can recall. Usually it's something like the boat not being in working condition or a female diver assaulted by the captain etc.

I heard about their broken boats (Sri Lanka & Oman Aggressor), but not the captain assaulting a female diver. You have a link to such news? I remember reading about a peeping tom captain lurking into female cabin window, but I think that was in another boat, not Aggressor.

 

[scubadada]

It's kind of ironic that the fire happened to an Aggressor boat as supposed to other liveaboard. I thought Aggressor safety standards are more stringent than other liveaboard companies. For example, I have been on two Aggressor boats (Palau Aggressor 2 and Maldives Aggressor 2). They have rule of no charging camera & video light batteries in the cabin to minimize fires due to charger short circuiting while no one is in the room (going diving). The charging stations are on dive deck, outside on the rear of the boat where crew would come C around and inspect. Other non Aggressor liveboards that I have been on (13) allow guests to change their batteries in the cabin or in the camera room.

I have been on 4 Aggressor boats, Red Sea, Cocos, Galapagos, Cayman. I share Dan's overall opinion, they were all professionally run and in good shape. See my comment, above, specifically regarding the RSA I

I was somewhat surprised to read the recent posts/reviews of problems on the Socorro Aggressor. I'm very glad I chose the Nautilus Explorer. It was not the most luxurious boat I have been on, but I believe it was the safest, and the standard with which I will judge future boats Fire on dive boat Conception in CA and Fire on dive boat Conception in CA