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World Bora catches fire

By: Tom Russell 31/08/2018 DGzRS

General Vessels Windfarms

On Thursday morning (30th August 2018) a fire broke out in the engine room of crew transfer vessel (CTV) World Bora 20km northeast of Sassnitz. No injuries have been reported.

The 30m World Bora, operated by Wolrd Marine Offshore, was supporting operations at the Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea at the time of the incident. The German Society for Rescue of the Shipwrecked (DGzRS) received a distress call from the CTV at around 11am. It dispatched rescue vessel BREMEN with firefighting experts aboard to assist.

The crew contained the fire by closing the engine room door and flooding it with carbon dioxide. Temperatures reached in excess of 300 degrees celsius.

The nearby offshore support vessel Sartor first arrived at the damaged vessel and placed two small lifeboats as a precaution as crew prepared to abandon ship. They remained on standby until the arrival of the BREMEN at around 12 o'clock. BREMEN then escorted the World Bora to the ferry port of Sassnitz/Mukran.

Wikinger consists of 70 Adwen AD 5-135 turbines for the project, the last of which was installed at the end of October 2017. It went live in December 2017 and is expected to supply 350,000 homes annually.

For more information on offshore wind farm service vessels, click here.

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