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Four fishermen died on Murmansk trawler from carbon monoxide poisoning
Four fishermen died on July 13 from carbon monoxide poisoning on the Murmansk trawler Captain Sulimov, which is in the fishing of the Faroe Islands, reports TV-21 with reference to the Northern Expeditionary Expeditionary Service Service of the FSBI of emergency rescue works.
The dead are three sailors 1989, 1956, born in 1998 and senior master of production born in 1963.
The trawler belongs to the Murmansk company Robinson. Its owner Irina Mokerova said that, according to the captain of the vessel, at 11 hours 20 minutes in one of the premises the sailors noticed smoke. Four people, without listening to the warnings of the captain, went into the room without means of protection and poisoned to death.
Severpost, citing sources, clarifies that cardboard containers for fish products began to smolder in the hold and sailors went down there to find out the scale of the incident. The fire managed to prevent.
Now the Captain Sulimov is heading from the area of the Providence to the Faroe Islands, until the end of the day he must arrive in the port of Torshavn.
The audit of this case was organized by the North-Western transport prosecutor's office, according to the website of the supervisory authority.
The governor of the Murmansk region Marina Kovtun expressed condolences in connection with the death of Murmansk sailors, her official website reports.
The Murmansk Bulletin lists the precautions that the sailors had to resort to according to the instructions to avoid the tragedy. Each check of a 200-meter room in the hold should have been dressed in special insulating costumes and use the oxygen-olitic apparatus mandatory in this situation. A group of fishermen was supposed to be insured by a member of the command staff - he had to hold the insured cable, to which all members of the auditing team were fastened. This is necessary so that in case of loss of human consciousness, it is possible to stretch out the cable from a room filled with carbon monoxide.