Massive fire breaks out on a cargo ship carrying thousands of luxury cars in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. NBC News’ Jesse Kirsch has more on the story including the new images showing crew being airlifted to safety.
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#CargoShip #LuxuryCars #Atlantic
Later you see the Somali pirates driving Bentleys and Porsches.
Never thought I would feel bad for car sales people.
They will be getting an earful.
I’d bet money it was a new electric model that caught fire…
Who cares about those stupid cars. Long as the ocean is okay and the crew.
Karma against rich trash buying custom cars when most people cant even find an affordable place to live….
TRUTH
I need a Bentley
Example 1,005,676 where outsourcing is not an improvement. Build dam.cars at location..
Jewish lightning 🔯🔯⚡⚡⚡⚡
I suppose that some of those electric cars experienced spontaneous combustion. 🤓
I can claim as salvage now right.
Well hope there insurance will cover this.. if not.. im ok with the owners of the cars having to pay for another car
the car market is overheated
Lol yah there glad to here everyone is safe so they don’t take a hit in the pocket 🤣
NO ONE DIED BUT THOSE STUPID NOWHERE CARS.
ITS GOOD THIS HAPPENED.
IN JESUS NAME AMEN AND AMEN.
But are the cars ok?
Nothing Bespoke on that ship…..other than the crew! Bentleys are just large Volkswagens under their skin😎
Really Amazing how Safe Electric cars are to…….. oops.. Nothing to see here, the Lithium Fire are Good for Global Warming, just like Clean Atomic Energy!
Luxury cars? Who cares? Rescue the crew and let the ship burn and sink to the bottom of the ocean. The rich can do without their expensive toys!
I am crying for the people who won’t get their cars. maybe they can feed some hungry people with the ridiculous amount of $ they were going to waste on a stupid car
Girl scouts!! Lol..
“OILTANKER”????
Another mafia ship burn
Bahahahahahaahahaa
Let’s get them cars now
Didn’t they destroy more cars making “The Blues Brothers”? Of course, those weren’t luxury cars. Slow news days tend to expose vapid news analysts, don’t they?
Basically all cars from the Volkswagen group
The ship and its cargo are fully insured.
Money over safety.
0:17 this is not Emden in Germany xddd
😂
Outfuckingstanding! No pollution and no crew member got hurt…f$&& the cars!
Big sale on Porsche’s, today only, once they’re gone, there gone.
Custom made to order luxury cars? Well doesn’t sound a big loss because everyone with a vehicle there obviously has a few other rides in their driveway. And insurance will take care of that inconvenience, we’re all just glad marine life wasn’t affected and the crew survived.
Feeling sorry for rich peoples 🚗 ? AH NOOOOO
Lol!!!!😅
F…… CK…my Porsche.
They are Volkswagen’s who cares 🤣🤣
Time to mourn the loss of the ultra rich peoples cars
They are clearly more concerned about the cars and not the crew or creatures in the sea, so sad!
Now, you gonna get shark riding Bentley
Something fishy about this. I guess the EV cars will have to wait!
This vessel may have suffered enough damage that its internal ballast system may not function properly, and keeping the ship from capsizing would be a likely scenario. The drama has only just begun.
Geeee rich guys don’t get their cars…I’m heart broken
Big deal! The filthy rich will just buy another one to go with all their other “luxuries”…. Ho hummmm…
So if you abandon a ship it becomes a jump ball. Anyone can board it and claim “Legitimate Salvage” and it is theirs.
When interviewer talked to the crew Moe, Larry and Curly they 😳
the insurance company will cry
The first impression of this news is ~~from where to where?
Germany to US…….oh…that is ….Only american cars can be allowed to ship without accidents
Too many coincidence ~ ~So poor Germany
Poor cars
I’m glad the crew is safe. Who cares about luxury cars. Don’t care about rich people tears. Burn.
Insurance revenge job for sure.
Ahhhhhhh……poor rich kids. No spare car 🚗 , crying right now. I careless about vehicles if it is 80,000. This is really sad for ocean wildlife and the impact on environment.
Yup insurance scam.well done
I’m sure everything thing is insured for marketprice not cost price
Those cars!!!!
which country will buy this car?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! No luxury for you! Don’t get angry, blame the fire insurance scam!
Destruction is happening !! GOOD… America Is wayyyy to consumer/ money driven !
It’s going to take a ton of little trees to cover the smoke smell of any cars that survived.
There will be pollution when it sinks.
The cars are meaningless. It’s God’s word that will last forever. 1 Pet. 1:25
THESE MOOKS AREN’T PREPARED FOR A FIRE, WITH ALL THE WATER THEY’RE SITTING IN? WTF!!
Volkswagen and luxury cars shouldn’t be in the sams sentence…
1000 porsches lmao
The irony
Got this interview and news piece was terrible everyone is so materialistic. At least 22 people get to go home with there families
No worries, they’ll be on Craigslist before you know it.
The Lithium Ion Batteries in the Electric cars may have caused the fire. I us lithium Ion Batteries in my Electric RC model aircraft and know they are in danger of causing a fire that is hard to put out, I keep them in fire proof bags for that reason when in storage and when charging.
Dam them people at home crying 6m to a year waiting on there custom high end car wow never heard anything happening like this before
I thought ships have fire suppression systems. Seems the crew left in a hurry just to save themselves. Should have stayed onboard to fight the fire. They will have to answer tough questions why they left so fast and left millions of $$ worth of cars to burn!
Batteries are NOT eco friendly
Take that 400 million and build homes for the half million homeless Americans and other people in the world.
Jesus Christ loves you all. Amen.
Part out $500 each lol
I bet it was a battery fire that caused it.
how about fire system alarm, did not worked?
Awwwwww the rich won’t get their car
Rich guys would be unhappy.. it breaks my heart lol
Hope they have good insurance 🤣
Obviously, its purposely. This is Chinese or Russian dirty job.
I see that boat go by every once and a while
Smoke emits DEADLY GASES! Gases that pollute our Atmosphere! Period! Dummies!
Remember by maritime law it’s finders keepers now
I wonder if any marine wildlife loitered around the very warm ship amd basked in the heat
boo hoo who gives a crab there is war and famine all over the world the poor rich dodos have to wait another year not even worth the news
Insurance Company will bankrupt after that 😂😂
I’m concerned about the cars and how would they be back
there is no substitute!!
Millionaire problems
I’m glad the crew is safe.
A big oh boo hoo for all those rich people who lost a custom car. Such a tragedy. Now they’ll all just have to keep driving their other luxury cars while whining about having to wait some more for the replacement cars…..ohhh such a terrible loss.
When the fire goes out and the whole thing sinks it will eventually become new homes for what ever creatures live at the depths of the ocean. Just like all the other ships that have gone down at sea.
Who knows maybe Sponge Bob can move into a Porsche and Mr. Crabs will be so mad. I can see Patrick moving into the wheel house and become Patrick the pirate.
Yes, I find humor in this.
THEY ALL STOLE BAILOUTS FROM CITIZENS
How about the fact that anyone that can afford one of those cars most definitely is not going to be suffering all that much. And if you’re crying over a car that you have to wait an extra six months for, then I wish I had your life.
How about we worry about all the burning rubber and all the pollution, carbon and God knows what else that was burned and released into the ozone, the environment and who knows what fell into the ocean!!!…. I think there’s much larger issues to worry about then some very very wealthy person crying about not receiving their car on time.
They cars died because of covid.
Probably because of crappy electric cars
4,000 luxury cars worth $401 million destroyed in Cargo mishap headline
Electric cars shorted out due to flooding most likely causing the fires.
YES.. I think there is something at the bottom of Lake Toba which until now has not been able to be dived to the bottom of the lake by world researchers. It used to be before it became a lake because of a volcanic eruption thousands of years ago. Toba Volcano is a volcano with the largest eruption in the world. Initially, the story was mainland. After it erupted and formed a very large reservoir, it became filled with fresh water. .🆗
Karma
Electric cars?
6 months to a year. To order ..
People are alive
The cars the ship .. sink it .
$
Let the ones that dealt it
Bitter the lost .
Who cares about the cars