by Instructor, Jeff Hare
Club members may notice the car carriers occasionally in our shipping channel, with white vans loaded with people driving up the ramp, and back out again followed by shiny new cars like ducklings following their mother. These are temporarily stored in the large lot before eventually being loaded on train cars for delivery all across the Americas.
Unfortunately we have to report that a similar car carrying vessel that caught fire in the pacific and abandon last week, has sunk with 3,158 new cars aboard! It is thought that the fire may have started in a lithium battery of one of the 65 electric vehicles aboard and spread to the others. As you know by your training, Class D fires are nearly impossible to extinguish – proved out in this case.
Unfortunately this massive sinking is likely to contribute to the Pacific Garbage Patch (link below). Let us all keep doing our part to keep the San Francisco Bay as clean as possible.
https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch
