Fire on Subsea Viking
By Aiswarya Lakshmi
Monday, August 3, 2015
An exclusion zone was set up around Hatston Pier earlier as the offshore support vessel Subsea Viking which was tied up alongside at the time caught fire at Hatson Pier in Orkney Islands in Scotland’s Orkney Island.
The fire started from the diesel generator due to short circuit and extended to the deck. In fire fighting was engaged a coastguard tug, which succeeded to extinguish it for about an hour, but continued to pour water over the support vessel Subsea Viking for half day attempting to cool gas cylinders stored on the deck and to prevent explosion.
During the accident there were no injured people and no water pollution, but the quay was closed for a day and forced the ferry due to call to be diverted to a neighboring facility.
The 1999-built Subsea Viking is a construction / flexlay vessel owned by Eidesvik Shipping and on charter to Subsea 7. A ferry due to call at the pier last night diverted to a neighbouring facility.
The vessel has overall length of 103.00 m, moulded beam of 24.00 m and maximum draft of 6.20 m. The deadweight of the ship is 6,350 DWT and the gross tonnage is 7,401 GRT. The ship was built in 1999 by Umoe Sterkoder in their shipyard in Kristiansund, Norway.