Q&A: Fire on board the Fremantle Highway ship

There is actually no way to &#x27;put out&#x27; thermal runaway Li-ion batteries chemical fires. They have to be left to burn out which can take days and produces immense heat and toxic chemicals.<p>There is speculation that batteries undersides were scraped as the EVs were loaded onto the boat, damaging a battery underside.<p>A useful youtube shipping channel and discussion of this latest incident:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lEsO--Z2d2E" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lEsO--Z2d2E</a>

tldr:<p>- Li-ion batteries on fire cannot be put out with water and need special stuff... &quot;often not to hand&quot; on ships like this. Ships carrying hundreds of EVs<p>- IATA of the sea plans to get around to add new safety measures &quot;next year&quot;<p>Seems like they were basically crossing fingers until now? I guess ships go down slowly and people usually don&#x27;t die, and I guess they don&#x27;t care that much about dumping 2000 tons of fuel oil into oceans on occasion. Cheaper than firefighting measures...