Ship Fire: An automobile transport ship caught fire off the coast of Portugal. It is carrying almost 4,000 cars, including Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Bently. What a financial...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

An automobile transport ship caught fire off the coast of Portugal. It is carrying almost 4,000 cars, including Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Bently. What a financial mess! "NH resident Joshua Vavra and his wife, Lyndsey, have been waiting since November for his $65,000 Porsche."

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I guess the slogan, "buy American" might come in handy now.
--Bob

jerryc41 wrote:

An automobile transport ship caught fire off the coast of Portugal. It is carrying almost 4,000 cars, including Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Bently. What a financial mess! "NH resident Joshua Vavra and his wife, Lyndsey, have been waiting since November for his $65,000 Porsche."

ELNikkor

"No proof of salt-water or fire damage, therefore, insurance does not cover..."

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

And those 4,000 cars are carrying 4,000 big lithium batteries. It's still unknown if a battery started the fire of if something else was the cause but either way, burning lithium batteries put out lots of toxic fumes and can only be extinguished with CO2, foam or by complete submersion in water...which just might happen!

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

rmalarz wrote:

I guess the slogan, "buy American" might come in handy now.
--Bob

Exactly!

Blues Dude

Ad in Lisbon newspaper titled, "Gently Used Exotic Cars for Sale" 😎

genocolo Loc: Vail and Gasparilla Island

Smokin’ hot deals!

Ava'sPapa Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

jerryc41 wrote:

An automobile transport ship caught fire off the coast of Portugal. It is carrying almost 4,000 cars, including Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Bently. What a financial mess! "NH resident Joshua Vavra and his wife, Lyndsey, have been waiting since November for his $65,000 Porsche."

$65,000. That must have been for the wheels and tires.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

fourlocks wrote:

And those 4,000 cars are carrying 4,000 big lithium batteries. It's still unknown if a battery started the fire of if something else was the cause but either way, burning lithium batteries put out lots of toxic fumes and can only be extinguished with CO2, foam or by complete submersion in water...which just might happen!

Why would we think they are all electric or hybrids? Probably a small percentage. But I certainly agree LI Ion fires are a bitch to extinguish (personal experience), and since they produce their own oxidizer, CO2 is not especially effective. They could easily lose the ship.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

That's kind of a leap. Did you have access to the ship's manifest? How did you determine that all 4000 vehicles were battery-powered?
--Bob

fourlocks wrote:

And those 4,000 cars are carrying 4,000 big lithium batteries. It's still unknown if a battery started the fire of if something else was the cause but either way, burning lithium batteries put out lots of toxic fumes and can only be extinguished with CO2, foam or by complete submersion in water...which just might happen!

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

rmalarz wrote:

That's kind of a leap. Did you have access to the ship's manifest? How did you determine that all 4000 vehicles were battery-powered?
--Bob

You and TriX are right; I stand corrected. An article I read noted the problems firefighters will face putting out burning lithium car batteries on the ship but it didn't say how many cars are battery-electric.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Blues Dude wrote:

Ad in Lisbon newspaper titled, "Gently Used Exotic Cars for Sale" 😎

"Recently washed"

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Ava'sPapa wrote:

$65,000. That must have been for the wheels and tires.

That's why he's been waiting since November. They don't make many bare bones Porsches. : )

usn ret Loc: SoCal High Desert

And off the coast of Alaska, you have this, a ghost ship carrying 5000 Mazdas abandoned by crew and adrift.

See da link: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a12109/ghost-ship-full-of-mazdas-floats-free-off-alaska/

Seems to be a bad time for sea transport of automobiles.

Peterfiore Loc: Where DR goes south

Ava'sPapa wrote:

$65,000. That must have been for the wheels and tires.

My thought exactly!