- Author
- National Transportation Safety Board
- Title
- Marine Accident Report. Fire Aboard the Bahamian Passenger Vessel M/V SCANDINAVIAN SEA, Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 9, 1984.
- Coporate
- National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, DC
- Report
- NTSB/MAR-85/03, March 26, 1985, 76 p.
- Keywords
- shipboard fires
- Abstract
- A few minutes before 1920, on March 9, 1984, a fire was discovered in a room occupied by two crewmen aboard the Bahamian registered cruise ship SCANDINAVIAN SEA. The vessel, which was on a daily 11-hour cruise out of Port Canaveral, Florida, with 744 passengers and 202 crewmembers aboard, had been anchored about 7 miles off the coast of Florida, near Cape Canaveral and had just gotten underway. It proceeded to its berth at the Port Canaveral Cruise Terminal while the vessel's firefighting team proceeded to fight the fire. After the vessel berthed at 2057, the passengers were disembarked, and Coast Guard and local firefighters boarded the vessel to fight the fire. Meanwhile the fire, although it was contained within the forward vertical fire zone, spread through the upper decks. the fire was extinguished on March 11, 1984. There were no injuries or loss of life. The vessel was declared a constructive total loss. It was valued at $16 million.