Ferry explosion in Playa del Carmen
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T.C.
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I agree, and the bulkheads don't appear thick enough or capable of supporting a stack.
And this remains a diesel-powered craft. Diesel fuels just don't explode like this. I am curious, c5diver, if you can explain the mechanics of that explosion?
Agreed. While the white smoke is present, the large fireball afterward isn't. The top passenger deck exhibits blast damage consistent with an explosion up there, and there just isn't that much damage on the middle deck from the picture.
...so to speak.
Maybe someone bit into a battery. A man bit a smartphone battery as a test, and it exploded
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The fact that the explosion appears to eminate from the top deck coupled with the timing of when passengers disembarking and no one remaining in the passenger cabin all seems a bit too much of a coincidence.
It just doesn’t pass my smell test.
It just doesn’t pass my smell test.
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An article by Por Esto throws water on the engine room explosion theories.
https://www.poresto.net/ver_nota.php?zona=qroo&idSeccion=5&idTitulo=627964
Translated excerpts (full translation on FB Cozumel 4 You page but that violates "fair use")
COZUMEL, February 22nd.-
...Information arising from federal sources indicate that after the review of investigating authorities to the engine room and motor generators that feed the Caribbean I with registration number 1M09570981, it was found that they were intact after the explosion, so much that they would not have any type of alteration...
...it is noted that inside the right metal side that was broken in the middle deck of the ship, do not run gas pipelines, because the ship does not use that chemical, except for the small amount of gas for air conditioning equipment However, researchers do not believe that this gas to cool was a cause of the explosion...
...on the passenger access deck, it was damaged only below where the ignition arose from the explosion, as if it were from top to bottom, leaving most of the bow of the entrance deck to people without visible damage. .
Everything indicates that the explosion had greater intensity just to the right side of the middle deck, and that the expansive wave released more energy to the left side of the ship...
Until now only Alicia Ricalde Magaña, director of the Apiqroo, went out to communicate the day of the events through an official bulletin in a somewhat risky way, that "the preliminary report indicates that it was a mechanical failure", when its capacity of action is limited to administrative faculties, in no way is it the authority to investigate or fix a version because it does not correspond to it.
...That is why it did not take long for the Caribbean Ship Company to respond on Wednesday with a statement, saying: "Preliminarily, we inform you that our machinery and equipment were working properly, so we still do not know the reason for this incident", and according to the sources, this company statement was because its engines were not damaged.
https://www.poresto.net/ver_nota.php?zona=qroo&idSeccion=5&idTitulo=627964
Translated excerpts (full translation on FB Cozumel 4 You page but that violates "fair use")
COZUMEL, February 22nd.-
...Information arising from federal sources indicate that after the review of investigating authorities to the engine room and motor generators that feed the Caribbean I with registration number 1M09570981, it was found that they were intact after the explosion, so much that they would not have any type of alteration...
...it is noted that inside the right metal side that was broken in the middle deck of the ship, do not run gas pipelines, because the ship does not use that chemical, except for the small amount of gas for air conditioning equipment However, researchers do not believe that this gas to cool was a cause of the explosion...
...on the passenger access deck, it was damaged only below where the ignition arose from the explosion, as if it were from top to bottom, leaving most of the bow of the entrance deck to people without visible damage. .
Everything indicates that the explosion had greater intensity just to the right side of the middle deck, and that the expansive wave released more energy to the left side of the ship...
Until now only Alicia Ricalde Magaña, director of the Apiqroo, went out to communicate the day of the events through an official bulletin in a somewhat risky way, that "the preliminary report indicates that it was a mechanical failure", when its capacity of action is limited to administrative faculties, in no way is it the authority to investigate or fix a version because it does not correspond to it.
...That is why it did not take long for the Caribbean Ship Company to respond on Wednesday with a statement, saying: "Preliminarily, we inform you that our machinery and equipment were working properly, so we still do not know the reason for this incident", and according to the sources, this company statement was because its engines were not damaged.
While probably not relevant to this case, almost anything can become explosive if it is vaporized, or in small particles, in an enclosed space. Flour is not very compustable in a bowl. But flour mills explode when the dust gets ignited.
Do they serve hot food on this ferry? That could get gas on an upper deck.
There does not seem to have been a lot of shrapnel. If you want to injure lots of folks you add projectiles to the bomb and time it for when the number on the boat is maximum. Neither appears to be the case here.
Do they serve hot food on this ferry? That could get gas on an upper deck.
There does not seem to have been a lot of shrapnel. If you want to injure lots of folks you add projectiles to the bomb and time it for when the number on the boat is maximum. Neither appears to be the case here.
After a lot of thought I vote for "sending a message". AS the ferries are landing most people leave the middle of the boat and start massing at the front and rear exits. It is most unlikely that there were many people near the middle of the boat and certainly not on the top deck which has no exits.
Dave
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