PDC resort explosion
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Horrible accident. The Grand Riviera Princess is a highly rated, pricey property.
More info at Four Canadians dead in Mexican hotel gas explosion | Top News | Reuters
Excerpting from The Press Association: Six killed in Mexican hotel blast
More info at Four Canadians dead in Mexican hotel gas explosion | Top News | Reuters
Looks like the actual death loss may be 6: 4 Canadians, 2 employees?
Excerpting from The Press Association: Six killed in Mexican hotel blast
elletek
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Terrible news!
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Here is some video footage of the aftermath of the explosion.
YouTube - Aftermath of explosion at Grand Riviera Princess resort, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
YouTube - Aftermath of explosion at Grand Riviera Princess resort, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
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The death loss is still at 6 from most reports.
Anyone know if Mexico requires a foul smell to be added to gaseous fuels like in the US?
Belmont
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I read it was sewer gas or Methane generated by rotting garbage. Methane has no smell of its own. I am pretty sure they add mercaptan to all cooking gas in Mexico, be it Methane, Propane or Butane.
With all due respect to the extent of this tragedy, when you bulldoze a swamp and then cover all that organic material with impervious cover, this is the end product. It is surprising that it doesn't happen more frequently with all the illegal and non-inspected construction in this part of the country.
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Looks like the death loss is still being reported as 7 in some stories, and Swamp Gas is indicated in this one brief on. 9&10 News - Swamp gas may have caused hotel blast...Talking tax cuts
Spratman
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Not surprised at all by this. These new resorts are not built well. I was down at the Royal Haciendas about two years ago, when they were hawking them. I am hardly a structural engineer, but the place was brand new and the entirety of our visit showed stress fractures and cracks from not building on a solid base. I used to think that swamp gas was only related to UFO's....now it's blowing up resorts.
Wat they said of TV was that it blew refrigerator size chunks of concrete out of the ground.
Wat they said of TV was that it blew refrigerator size chunks of concrete out of the ground.
I found this on Cozumelinsider.com/news/:
"Prison for Those Responsible for Princess Hotel Explosion that Killed 7 12/9 Investigations into the cause of an explosion 3 weeks ago on 11/14 at the Princess Hotel & Resort in Playa del Carmen have concluded that an LP gas leak was responsible for the devastation that killed 7 persons including 5 Canadian tourists, and injured 20 others. Furthermore, there appear to be a series of supervision abberrations whereby some one was allowed to install a few LP gas pipes that were not authorized. It was in one of the above mentioned unauthorized pipes where the LP gas escape registered, accumulated and then unleashed the catastrophic explosion that ripped through the hotel.
The lack of proper supervision demonstrated by the existence of the unauthorized LP gas pipes amounts to criminal negligence on the part of the Princess Hotel and Resort management. This is the reason that the Ministerio Publico continues to build its case for murder under file# 3238/2010 with the intention of sending those responsible for the mismanagement to prison. It is expected within the next few weeks that the Ministerio Publico will request arrest warrants for those in charge of the hotel alleging the crime of murder."
I stand corrected on my prior comments regarding accumulation of swamp gas, and apologize to any swamp that I may have offended by my remarks.
"Prison for Those Responsible for Princess Hotel Explosion that Killed 7 12/9 Investigations into the cause of an explosion 3 weeks ago on 11/14 at the Princess Hotel & Resort in Playa del Carmen have concluded that an LP gas leak was responsible for the devastation that killed 7 persons including 5 Canadian tourists, and injured 20 others. Furthermore, there appear to be a series of supervision abberrations whereby some one was allowed to install a few LP gas pipes that were not authorized. It was in one of the above mentioned unauthorized pipes where the LP gas escape registered, accumulated and then unleashed the catastrophic explosion that ripped through the hotel.
The lack of proper supervision demonstrated by the existence of the unauthorized LP gas pipes amounts to criminal negligence on the part of the Princess Hotel and Resort management. This is the reason that the Ministerio Publico continues to build its case for murder under file# 3238/2010 with the intention of sending those responsible for the mismanagement to prison. It is expected within the next few weeks that the Ministerio Publico will request arrest warrants for those in charge of the hotel alleging the crime of murder."
I stand corrected on my prior comments regarding accumulation of swamp gas, and apologize to any swamp that I may have offended by my remarks.
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