Fiji Siren - Lost at Sea

[KathyV]

I just read that they lost another boat in 2011, the Indo Siren, so that makes 6 boats gone in 6 years! I give them a pass on the Truk Siren because that was in harbor during a typhoon and other boats also ran aground, and maybe even one more pass because they are a large fleet, but that still leaves 4 other boats lost. Geesh! Out of passes!

 

[Wookie]

Really? You don't know anything about the boats or the company and just use words like shi..t and disgusted? Thats how scuba board staff cultivates a great discussion behavior!

So explain to me how a Taiphoon, sub surface floating sea freight container (which there are 10thousands worldwide) to just name two incidents is giving a **** about customers?
Before you rant out like this wait and see what was actually the cause. They do have a safety officer do have CO fire extinguisher, evacuation procedures, training... and thanks to that and the great crew nobody was harmed.

WWDAS owns a lot of boats and other than other fleets they actually own them and can blame someone else. Boats are risky and wooden boats are not exactly less risky than steel hulls...

Really?

 

[BDSC]

For any folks who are thinking of booking a Siren boat in the future, you better pay damn close attention when they go over their safety drills and what you need to do if you have to abandon ship.

I was at DEMA a couple of weeks ago and a couple of the dive travel wholesalers and I were in a discussion. One flatly refused to send any clients on a Siren boat until they got their act together. The other would put folks on one of their boats if their customer absolutely insisted. I'm pretty sure they will go back to not booking them at all.

Truly unbelievable.

 

[Dogbowl]

6 boats in 6 years? I wouldn't go on this fleet if it was free. This is a trend such that it no longer matters whether it was a streak of extremely bad luck or insurance "you know what".

 

[flyboy08]

Thankfully they don't run an airline!

 

[BDSC]

Both of the guys I was in the above conversation with agreed that everyone in the industry has recognized that the Siren Fleet has a real problem but the Siren Fleet doesn't think so and that's why these events continue to happen.

 

[BoltSnap]

Really? You don't know anything about the boats or the company and just use words like shi..t and disgusted? Thats how scuba board staff cultivates a great discussion behavior!

So explain to me how a Taiphoon, sub surface floating sea freight container (which there are 10thousands worldwide) to just name two incidents is giving a **** about customers?
Before you rant out like this wait and see what was actually the cause. They do have a safety officer do have CO fire extinguisher, evacuation procedures, training... and thanks to that and the great crew nobody was harmed.

WWDAS owns a lot of boats and other than other fleets they actually own them and can blame someone else. Boats are risky and wooden boats are not exactly less risky than steel hulls...

REALLY??????????? Are you serious?? Would you say the same thing if it were an airline company?

WWDAS owns a lot of boats and other than other fleets they actually own them and can blame someone else. Boats are risky and wooden boats are not exactly less risky than steel hulls...

And it seems that half of the fleet went down LOL

 

[Wookie]

Really? You don't know anything about the boats or the company and just use words like shi..t and disgusted? Thats how scuba board staff cultivates a great discussion behavior!

So explain to me how a Taiphoon, sub surface floating sea freight container (which there are 10thousands worldwide) to just name two incidents is giving a **** about customers?
Before you rant out like this wait and see what was actually the cause. They do have a safety officer do have CO fire extinguisher, evacuation procedures, training... and thanks to that and the great crew nobody was harmed.

WWDAS owns a lot of boats and other than other fleets they actually own them and can blame someone else. Boats are risky and wooden boats are not exactly less risky than steel hulls...

No, it gets better. They hit the same "shipping container" in 2015, according to their Facebook page. Or was that a reef?

 

[KathyV]

WWDAS posted a message on their facebook page, see the link below. One of the commenters says that the cause of the wreck was "Hit the reef and was taking in water....." but I don't know if that is true or just speculation.

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[KathyV]

Maybe they should start offering wreck dives on their own boats!