Salvage

Salvage crews prepare to remove the hulk of a Sunseeker 62 motor cruiser that sank following a devastating fire last Friday.

As you will see the adjacent fishing boat was badly charred.

No one was hurt and the emergency crews did a magnificent job and avoided a major disaster

Most boats today are plastic and have on board a cacophony of flammables such as diesel, petrol, oils, gas and wooden fitments.

It as mandatory to carry sufficient fire extinguishers and fire blankets but if a serious fire takes hold there will be little time to do anything apart from abandon ship

Fortunately fires which cause total loss are rare