St Thomas Yacht Positive Energy Fire Burns to water line March 15 2016
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- This $2.5 Million dollar Yacht parked at the The Yacht Haven Grande Marina in St Thomas Virgin Islands tragically met it's maker. It about made me sick recording this. It looked like a possible galley fire that I thought would be quickly taken care of but as you can see after several minutes it became irreversible. Was a beautiful boat.
Video was taken from the 16th deck of the Norwegian Escape.
That was a sensible decision on somebody's part to take her out when the fire was clearly beyond control, and some brave and competent crew on the boat which did the job. It could have been so much worse.
Not to mention the tow crew tied their tow line to the pier so the wind wouldn't grab the yacht -- good thinking
FD response equally BAD. Actually they would have had to do something to have done bad. Other than stand there they did 0. Should have been put out easily. FD should be sued and forced to buy the owner a new boat. Negligent.
Why no fire suppression ON the boat in the first place?
At least someone there had the good sense to get it away from the dock and the other yachts.
Kudos to the power boat guy for getting it out of the marina !.
If I ever open a Marina and am looking for workers, I want the crew on that small boat. Make no mistake about it, they are good!
you won't be opening a can of soup, bud-- let alone a marina
Whoever took the boat out of the marina deserves a medal. It might have been a million dollar boat but, at the end of the day, it's a highly combustible plastic/oil based product.
Yeah didn't see anyone towing it at that....
2:10 you can just see the boat towing it and it's wake. Probably the same one that was putting out the containment boom.
The state of that toxic smoke!
Crazy that it burned for all this time and no fire truck showed up
It's a St. T thing, man.
The fire crew in green is actually from a docked cruise ship. The shipped launched its lifeboat with the fire crew to assist. As with the coast guard that towed the boat away, they are not in the business of saving a craft. Once determined that there were no individuals on board that needed rescue it is towed away. It is the same at sea. The coast guards primary objective is for saving lives not your craft.
Yup, awesome firefighting technique, pull it to the corner and let it burn.
I was in YHG when this happened....thank God nobody was injured
Nothing to do with God, and why do you feel the need to state the obvious? Do you think that some people watch this and think..."what a pity no one was hurt"
Do you have an alibi? What were you doing there? Why, with who, etc...
Very sad to see such a beautiful boat lost in minutes. So lucky this was not 100miles out to sea. Good work by the marina small boat that got the boat away from other boats and berthing area. It was clear that the boat was a loss and waiting for fire service would have been wrong.
Karma is a bitch.
That tow boat saved the day.
I thought someone was on that burning boat driving it to another area, geeez, I finally realized they were pulling it. Excellent job
WOW,GREAT WORK FIREFIGHTERS.JOB WELL DONE.YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST.
1:55, between 1:50 and 1:55 he edited, at 1:55 just before they tow it out, you can see firefighters magically appear and they are in fact spraying it down, they just decided it was too risky to try to contain and better to remove all risk to others and let it die.
They failed completely 100%.
For all of you dumping on the firefighters, fiberglass boat fires are almost impossible to put out. All you can do is prevent the fire from spreading and let the boat burn itself out. That's what they did
Coast Guard...."Let's see your fire extinguisher and life jackets." If you have a galley a fire blanket should be hanging right next to the stove.
All that water and no way to put it out.
This is why these ports should have their own small fire boats! Whats the use for the crew to learn firefighting? It does no good on boats like this! Also what about the so call firefighting system on these yachts? They did nothing from what I can see from this video!
Ridiculous statement, every crew should know as much as possible about firefighting.
are you going to pay for fireboats in every little marina. so you missed the hose shooting at the back of the boat as it pulled away? you might watch the video.
Keith Johnson you gonna pay for it?
All these people asking where the fire Department is, this is standard practice. There is another video on TH-cam of USCG intentionally sinking a sailboat that was on fire. These yachts will often have propane stoves that can explode endangering fire fighters.
ironic...400000000000000 gallons of water, yet....burn burn burn
I woulda said here hold my beer & pulled the drain plug real quick...
Probably no fire detection equipment on board. Halon or C02 would have stopped the fire early. These systems are ideal for fires in enclosed spaces that can be easily smothered.
@glasslinger Halons have been banned for years and CO2 is too bulky and time consuming. You missed the obvious one.....high expansion foam, which ANY half respectable fire service has. I would have embarrassed to have been the OIC of that incident. There are nominal fire services and there are effective professional fire services. Guess which this was.
When emergency try extinguish the fire in firsts minutes the fire are easy to have control and finished with sucess, dont get out running of fire, take the extinguisher and make direction tô root of fire, try It make your better.
No fire response for boats?
Plastic boat smoke: Don't breathe this!
If it was mine I wouldn't have wasted valuable time towing it out. I'd have sold it for a song on eBay.
Chain saw below water line would be good
Where was the fire dept.?
Why did they put it where they did, could have turned left, went further dropped the anchors and bail.
Easier for insurance and salvage people access it
I helped build the marina and shops at Yacht Haven Grande 2006-2008
Love Saint Thomas
Who cares...
1:57 WTF? Somebody drove that boat out with the fire being that involved? Not sure if that was brave or just idiotic. Oh wait, now I see. It was being pulled out. That makes more sense.
Scary how fast that fire spread.
It's called Karma.
At 3:11 as the boat is moving it almost looks like prop wash behind the boat and as it turns to shoreline I don’t see it. Anyone have an idea?
Towed out
Avec des milliers de litres de carburant dans les réservoirs, il est inconcevable qu'un service d'intervention ne soit pas plus opérationnel pour maîtriser les incendies à bord de ces bâtiments.
The firefighters must’ve been off that day...
firefighters..... we dont need no stinking firefighters
Bam-Bam Moore huh
Naw. They just got paid to look the other way so some cartel kingpin could burn his boat and get a fat insurance payday.
There will be a new round of layoffs so the CEO can replace his boat.
It's an insurance job dude.
@@Arkie80 Who said he had insurance? soon as these boats get to be 8-10 years old nobody wants to insure em for what are actually worth
Ah, the irony of watching a boat burn to a crisp.
This is the reason why people with lots of money should not own boats...because, they are sometimes inherently stupid!
That boat was probably something I would have died in trying to save it. It was a palace on the water and had many more amenities then I'm used to by far! I am so careful in my crappy apartment because I value what I own and don't want to loose it.
Yacht Haven sure looks different than when my Dad docked his work boats there in the 1960s, '70s, and early '80s.
Rich people problems 🤣
Too bad it didn't drift into the larger ones.
Fire could have been put out if enough acted on it at the start instead of letting it but. Let me guess they didn't turn on the fans before starting the inboard.
Oh the smell of burnt fiberglass in the morning.
omg we saw this on the way back from the beach. we thought one of the cruise ships was on fire. i have video and pics as well.
I watched the same thing from the 8th floor on the Carnival Valor.
Rick Schaber haha I was on the 7th floor balcony
Rick Schaber Boats have decks not floors.
VESSELS HAVE DECKS NOT FLOORS.
Is there no fire dept.?
They were there at the beginning, don't know what the hell they were doing though...
I LIVED THERE 5 WINTERS. MOST STRUCTURES INCLUDING NEW CONSTRUCTION IS SOLID CONCRETE OR STONE. THAT'S A GOOD THING AS THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS PROVED THEMSELVES INEPT OVER AND OVER. HUGE BUDGET CUTS HAVE GUTTED THE FIRE SERVICE. THEIR FIRST LINE PUMPER AT THE MAN STATION IN DOWN TOWN C A WAS 20 YEARS OLD AND OUT OD SERVICE MUCH OF THE TIME.
This is what happens when you privatize the fire department - inept workers who don't even have their fire boat on the same side of the marina as the fire. At least some brave soul towed it clear of other boats and structures, but the fire dept. made no attempt to reduce that deadly poisonous black smoke.
St Thomas us territory yet still a third world country.
Unbelievable.......No one stopped the fire.........????
Greats boats need tô have pump with large hose installed with with register with Salt wather disposable to extinguisher great fire in board, is incridible to lost one Yacht because 1000 usd of equipment, and also the Pier need tô have the same equipments for quickly action of emergency, is to much poor one Marine dont think in this possibility is a lot common fires in boats when placed in Piers.
Even though in general it might make sense to get the boat out of the marina, it's quite a stupid decision here: Just seconds before the boat gets taken away, the firemen arrive. You can even see them spray water on the fire, the exact moment, the boat is dragged away. Seconds later it is too far away for the firemen. So in this case, the "rescueboat" was not doing any kind of rescue...
Do you know how much water it takes to put out a grp boat? It was absolutely the right decision to tow.
@@V8burble so you're saying it was a wise decision to put the boat away from the firemen and let it burn down - because you would have needed a lot of water? What kind of a logic is this?
@@craddocraddoc yes! Because it would take them so long to get enough large bore water canons on it the surrounding boats would be alight. Do you know just how much water it takes to do anything at all to a grp boat? It may surprise you... it’s a bit like spraying water on an oil fire, it makes things worse unless you have an awful lot of water
@@V8burble beside the fact, that this is a concrete harbour with no ships close by and even if there were - why not just drag them away instead? You are still trying to tell me, that taking the ship aeay from firemen and letting it burn down completely is the better solution to give the firemen a chance to at least try to get the fire out? You would burn down your house because it would be less work than mowing the front lawn, wouldn't you?
@@craddocraddoc let’s beg to differ.
My last comment is that of the wind direction towards those larger yachts, a drifting alight vessel compared to an alight vessel away from everyone is an easy decision. The vessel is a right off so don’t endanger surrounding vessels just to try and extinguish the fire, which as I say, takes way more water than you might think.
well done lads and lasss
How come I'm not getting sound?
That's one pretty ineffectual fire service. Prompt deployment of high expansion foam could have saved that boat. To leave to burn producing toxic smoke in such a position is appalling.
That's the end of that money pit .
A paradise SO WEALTHY , they don't bother with a fire service? The only fire control you see in a video with billion dollars in yachts is one guy with a yard hose, !!!
There is no fire station in that place.
Ok Cara Boat Tarik Boat Yang Sedang Terbakar, Jadi Satu Boat Saja yang terbakar Gak Melibatkan Sebelahnya, Dalam Keadaan Darurat.
PERSATUAN PEMILIK BOAT GAK ADA MENYEDIAHKAN BOAT BOMBA, DAN KAPAL BOMBA.
no fire boat?
Looks like that Mr Yupi's tub went to the bottom
Not paint but chain saw..........weenies or marshmallows ? For it's last meal.
Nobody ever shows what the boat looks like once the fire is out
2.5 million ? is that all ? A 60ft Viking yacht cost three times that.
I heard its on a fire sale and cost even less now
What's a pile of scorched detritus on the harbor floor worth?
No fire boats? Pretty irresponsible.
Probably Brazilian rain forest timbers going up in smoke too.
All that time no fire boats or engines somethings need to improve
Is there no fire department?
1:55, between 1:50 and 1:55 he edited, at 1:55 just before they tow it out, you can see firefighters magically appear and they are in fact spraying it down, they just decided it was too risky to try to contain and better to remove all risk to others and let it die.
Le plastique , c'est fantastique ! Pour le réchauffement climatique.
Plastic, It's Fantastic ! For global warming.
This happened to my kayak.
OH well .. it burned quite fantastically .. but its just a boat after all ..
ممتاز
I can’t believe there was no explosion from the fuel tanks.
Diesel does not explode.
Fire looks so fun anyone else interested in stuff burning?
....said the incel pyro just before "accidentally" burning down his mommy's house to the ground with a big smile on his face
Time to call State Farm.
why dont they explode like in the films
This is why a fire on a USN ship is an ALL HANDS ALERT !!! FIRE EXTINGUSHERS ARE LIKE SEX , SIZE MATTERS . WHO EVER COULD AFFORD THAT BOY TOY COULD AFFORD A HALON FIRE FIGHTING SYSTEM .
Listen I’m born and raised on this island. Ik all abt it and y’all dissing my home isn’t funny Ik it should’ve had fire depts there but y’all are being very rude to my island. Y’all probably never been there but are quick to judge. This island doesn’t have much money ok? Stop abusing my home town with words (GENERAL STATEMENT)
I lived there...third world all the way.
It caught fire due to the wires in the laundry room sparked
How do you know?
@@barbaragoerlitz1552 in an earlier post he said that his uncle was the owner
Burned for no good reason.
No fire boats?
If the top 1% want a fire boat bring your own. I'm not paying for it.
NEAREST FIRE BOAT WOULD PROBABLY BE AT THE BP REFINERY ON ST CROIX. ABOUT 6 HOURS AWAY.
Nice
The pollution those stinkpots cause eh...
Selling it to the insurance company.
LOL...some fire department...they were there at the beginning and didn't do shit. Be thankful that North America has great fire fighters.
They would do the same. Whats on board? Diesel? Propane.? This is not like fighting a house fire. Water on gasoline. diesoline only plays with the fire. And the house is moving. I'd go home too.
MEH. rich people problems .........
not mine
There was a similar fire in my West Texas town - lots of plastic, roiling black smoke that was death to breathe, no way to put it out. The insurance paid to re-paint my car because the particles that drifted down stuck to it and had to be chemically and manually scrubbed off.
I can still fix that
Ç'est ballot 😇
Insurance fraud.
The owner was too cheap to install a good fire prevention system. Maybe an insurance scam.
You know this do you?
OMG..TOXIC SMOKE...MAKE EVERYONE ILL!!!! ALL THAT PAINT AND FIBERGLASS!!!!SMART TO GET IT AWAY FROM THE DOCKS!!! I WOULD BE ON THE PHONE...IMMEDIATELY WITH A BROKER...LOOKING FOR A NEW ONE!!!!! I SHOULD THINK..POLICE SHOULD HAVE CLOSED THE ROAD...TOXIC SMOKE AND EXPLOSION!!!! FIRE BOAT ...ON THE...WRONG....SIDE OF THE DOCK...LOL!!!!!
Fukka
You're a t0tal idi0t
If yall was smart n not being fricking dumb the fire was an OIL FIRE you cant put out a OIL FIRE WITH WATER. And how the fire department gonna put out such a big fire with that hose ? 😐
Yeah sure. If it is foam, then one hose is more than enough, even more if the fire is in an enclosed room like an engine room.
what a disgusting site ... climate change wise these boats r a catastrophe
Insurance fraudsters
It just goes to show what mankind is prepared to risk for a pan of chips.
Where the hell is the fire department ?????
So sad 😔
Paid off.
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Im betting most fires on a boat are insurance claims meant to fix bad decisions. Yes theres the fools with money to buy somthing they know nothing about but most real boat owners would never let this happen.
That's my uncle mikes yacht I shit you not
Man sorry to hear that, thanks for the info on the electrical fire. Still very hard to watch!
That's an expensive bong.
4 copy paste houses
Insurance job.
Io avessi una barca di quel livello cancellerei come porto di attracco, questo porto e lo sconsiglierei a altri proprietari.
Un porto che ormeggia barche della stazza di quel tipo, e non ha un vero servizio antincendio e una motoantincendio e da chiudere subito.
Se fossero intervenuti con forza e mezzi subito a inizio incendio non si sarebbe arrivati a tanto.
Io fossi il proprietario e assicurazione chiamerei in causa e Giudizio a rispondere e risarcire anche economicamente il Porto in questione. oggett