Salvage Team Boards Burnt Ship with Luxury Cars Off Azores, Towing Starts

[Sherman A1]

More than a week after a ship packed with luxury cars caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a salvage team managed to board the vessel on Friday and started to tow it to a safe location off the Portuguese Azores archipelago.

In a statement, ship manager Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd (MOL) said the Felicity Ace remained stable, and the smoke that for days billowed from the vessel, adrift around 170 km southwest of the Azores, had stopped.

The 22 crew members of the Panama-flagged Felicity Ace, which was carrying around 4,000 vehicles including Porsches, Audis and Bentleys from Germany to the United States, were evacuated last Wednesday, the day the fire broke out. Read full story

Some of the vehicles are electric and their lithium-ion batteries have made the fire very difficult to extinguish, port officials have said.

https://www.marinelink.com/news/salvage-team-boards-burnt-ship-luxury-494600

[llashram]

1. wow

sad and revealing of the opportunistic nature of the modern pirate.

[gladium et scutum]

3. Modern pirates?

You know for sure that the salvage tug and salvage team and the two tugs escorting the ship are not in the employ of the ship's operators.

[llashram]

4. my misunderstanding of

OP...have a good day

[PufPuf23]

2. Now Porsches, Audis and Bentleys

Initial news reports were Volkswagens and Porches.

Then news reports were Porches and Lamborghinis.

Bet there are insurance issues and mark up in price of some luxury cars to buyers.

"Insurance experts said the incident could result in losses of $155 million"

No mega wealthy individual harmed by this incident except some may pay more for their rides.