{"id":269680,"date":"2023-07-27T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T12:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=269680"},"modified":"2023-07-27T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T12:14:39","slug":"evs-spark-deadly-fire-on-dutch-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=269680","title":{"rendered":"EVs Spark Deadly Fire On Dutch\u00a0Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fire on a cargo ship carrying almost 3,000 cars off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland has left one sailor dead and 22 others hurt.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A major salvage operation is in full swing in an area of the North Sea designated a World Heritage site.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty-two crew members were taken to hospital with breathing problems, burns and other injuries.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Dutch coastguard spokesman said the fire was probably caused by one of 25 electric vehicles on board the ship.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos shared by the coastguard showed the Panamanian-flagged Freemantle Highway engulfed in smoke with flames licking the deck.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coastguard told Dutch news agency ANP the fire could continue for days. The sides of the ship were being doused with water to cool it down, but rescue boats avoided pouring too much water on board because of the risk of sinking.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cargo ship left the port of Bremerhaven in northern Germany at around 15:00 local time on Tuesday on course for Port Said in Egypt.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It ran into trouble overnight, about 27km (17 miles) north of the Ameland in the Wadden Sea, on the edge of the North Sea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the crew initially tried to douse the flames themselves but were overwhelmed and were eventually forced to evacuate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The captain of the Ameland lifeboat, Willard Molenaar, told public broadcaster NOS that seven people had leapt 30m into the sea: “One by one they jumped and we had to fish them out of the water. They were really desperate so they had to jump.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A tugboat was used to pull the cargo ship out of major shipping routes to and from Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The freighter, which is operated by K-Line but owned by a subsidiary of the Japanese shipbuilding firm Imabari Shipbuilding, is currently stationary but the Dutch coastguard said it may be listing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The immediate challenge for emergency crews at the scene is to extinguish the fire and keep the cargo ship afloat.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salvage boats are circling, in preparation for all possible scenarios.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The North Sea foundation environmental group said the Wadden Sea had become increasingly vulnerable because of bigger ships using an extremely busy shipping route.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four years ago 270 shipping containers, some containing chemicals, fell off another Panamanian-registered cargo ship in a storm and some of the containers washed up on Dutch beaches.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this latest incident has also raised issues surrounding the risks of transporting electric vehicles.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year a cargo ship carrying 4,000 luxury cars\u00a0<\/em>caught fire\u00a0<\/em><\/a>and sank off the Azores. Lithium-ion batteries in the cars caught fire and firefighters needed specialist equipment to put out the fire.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-66310280<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is truly scary stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a cargo ship with 20 odd crew. Just imagine the catastrophe if it had been a car ferry, with hundreds of passengers and crew. Add in a ship full of EVs, and I suspect the ship would literally blow up in minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anybody who has sailed on one will know the virtual impossibility of getting all passengers off alive from below decks. Indeed, with the narrow corridors on board, I suspect many would be crushed in the panic to get off the ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fire on a cargo ship carrying almost 3,000 cars off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland has left one sailor dead and 22 others hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":269693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0Screenshot-2023-07-27-141007.png?fit=1054%2C594&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-189G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":270412,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=270412","url_meta":{"origin":269680,"position":0},"title":"Electric Car Blamed for Deadly Fire on Cargo Ship Carrying 3,000 Cars","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"30\/07\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"An\u00a0electric car has been linked to a fire on a cargo ship carrying nearly 3,000 vehicles\u00a0in the North Sea which killed one person and forced others to jump overboard.","rel":"","context":"In \"climate alarmism\"","block_context":{"text":"climate alarmism","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-alarmism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1breaking-cargo-ship-carrying-electric-vehicles-is-burning-near-ameland-in-the-netherlands_11.jpg?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1breaking-cargo-ship-carrying-electric-vehicles-is-burning-near-ameland-in-the-netherlands_11.jpg?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1breaking-cargo-ship-carrying-electric-vehicles-is-burning-near-ameland-in-the-netherlands_11.jpg?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1breaking-cargo-ship-carrying-electric-vehicles-is-burning-near-ameland-in-the-netherlands_11.jpg?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1breaking-cargo-ship-carrying-electric-vehicles-is-burning-near-ameland-in-the-netherlands_11.jpg?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":275221,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=275221","url_meta":{"origin":269680,"position":1},"title":"Will Soaring Insurance Costs Derail the EV Revolution?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"23\/08\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Four hundred ninety-eight\u00a0electric vehicles\u00a0(EVs) and over 3,200 other vehicles, including 350 Mercedes Benzes, were bound for Egypt on the Fremantle Highway\u00a0when one or more of the EVs caught fire, costing at least one seaman his life and injuring several others. 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