MSC Prestige

On February 02, 2018 this vessel suffered an engineroom fire and was adrift about 207nm SW of Haida Gwaii. The vessel was enroute from Vancouver to Japan when the fire broke out. The crew was able to put out the fire but several crew members were injured. Two of them have been transported to a hospital in Queen Charlotte City by a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter. An American oil tanker responded to their distress call and is on the scene, waiting in case anything else happens.

They will be relieved by the Canadian Coast Guard ship the Sir Wilfrid Laurier. According to a spokesperson at the Joint Rescue Command Centre in Victoria, MOL has arranged for an ocean-going tug from Foss Maritime to tow the MOL Prestige to an as-yet-undetermined port. The Denise Foss, based in Neah Bay, Wash., was enroute and is expected to arrive by 6 p.m. Saturday.