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It will soon be 22 years since the sunny but vårkyliga Saturday, April 7, 1990 when the Scandinavian woke up to the news that a car ferry on the route between Norway and Denmark damaged by fire on the Skagerrak during the night.
Since then, what was then Scandinavia's worst disaster in 200 years, unfortunately overshadowed by the even worse tragedies, but for us who lived in Lysekil at this time is the Scandinavian Star disaster still fresh in the memory. The fire claimed 159 lives and even today it is not entirely clear what or who caused it.
The ship M / S Scandinavian Star was built in 1971 and not even 20 years old when the tragedy occurred. sydney harbour bridge She had only been in service on the Oslo-Frederikshavn for a week and had just recently changed the environment from the Caribbean to Scandinavia.
The ferry route between Norway and Denmark since many years popular both as a transport route to the Continent but also for the pure pleasure cruises. sydney harbour bridge It was for this latter purpose by the shipping sydney harbour bridge company Vognmandsruten bought Scandinavian Star to let her operate Da No Line between Oslo and Frederikshavn.
The ship set out from the quay in Oslo on Friday evening, April 6, 1990 with 383 passengers and 99 crew members on board. Early Saturday morning, when most have taken place in their cabins, were the first fire alarm when a pile of bedding in a cabin corridor caught fire. The fire extinguished, but just five minutes later it burns in another sydney harbour bridge corridor on Deck 3 and this time spreading the fire very quickly.
Blind Corridors on the cab deck, fire doors which remain open and sprinklers that do not work will allow disaster is a reality. The Filipino crew are not adequately trained on the ship, that was not even totally prepared set when the cruise began. In several areas onboard ongoing renovation work. Ten minutes after the fire has broken out is most smoke-filled sydney harbour bridge corridors. Passengers do not have a chance when the carbon monoxide suffocates them. Death occurs after a few minutes.
It was to these news, we in the coastal belt and the rest of Scandinavia woke up on Saturday morning. Norwegian, Swedish and Danish sydney harbour bridge television showed extraordinary news broadcasts and it appeared blurred images sydney harbour bridge of rescue helicopters at night made it out to the disabled vessel. A ferry Stena Line had joined and saved the surviving passengers. TV images showed ghastly visions of a burning ship in the night. Later in the day it was decided that the Scandinavian Star would be towed in Lysekil, which was the nearest port that could accommodate sydney harbour bridge ships of this size. Moreover, there was a larger hospital here.
As the afternoon went over in the evening we saw rökplymerna from the ship out on the horizon. I slowly moved it closer, until at 21 o'clock on the evening before the silent and shocked lysekilsbor pulled into the quay where spaces have been arranged. It did not plain smoke on the ship. It was an unpleasant odor that I will not forget in a hurry.
It was a Saturday evening unlike any other for most of Lysekil. Everyone knew what was inside the ship, with its shattered windows and blackened hull sides moored at Grötökajen. When Saturday went over the Sunday fire had spread to the bridge and the toxic fumes spread over Lysekil. We were asked to close windows, doors and ventilation. The tragedy had spread out into the world and soon began to foreign journalists appear in the previously anonymous coastal resort.
My school sydney harbour bridge was to become central to the information sydney harbour bridge flow. The auditorium was turned into a press conference. Classrooms and staff rooms of the spring break closed Gullmar School was workroom for journalists from all over the world. CNN, Sky News, BBC - they had all staff in place in Lysekil, the small town which became famous all over the world.
During a fire was extinguished it was clear that the claimed 158 lives. Whole families were found ihopkrupna in their cabins. A cold store on the quay was turned into cold storage cells, which in the coming days lifted out of the vessel sydney harbour bridge in containers. The majority of those killed, 136 of them, came from Norway. For us who lived in Lysekil, a mere ten mil from the neighboring country, it seemed particularly difficult. Affinity with Norway and the Norwegians are large in northern Bohuslän.
After a few days began to Norwegian freezer trucks to roll between Lysekil and Oslo. We met them on the roads and knew what lay in the cold room when they were on their way back to Norway. sydney harbour bridge We felt and shared sorrow.
Eventually I was able to take me down to the harbor sydney harbour bridge and photograph the wreck. After ten days, she was towed to Copenhagen sydney harbour bridge where she was lying in four months. Immediately after the disaster sydney harbour bridge had a Maritime Declaration held in Copenhagen, sydney harbour bridge where the holding company was registered. There were questions about ownership and responsibility.
In the legal aftermath sentenced the owner, the company's director and the captain to prison for six months each. It turned out that the ship is still owned by SeaEscape, which was in the process of selling it to the Dane Henrik John