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Fatal Fire on the Red Sea Aggressor I

Operator
Vessel
Date
Location
near Port Ghalib, Egypt
Fatalities
1

According to Divernet, the liveaboard Red Sea Aggressor I (formerly Suzanna), operated by Aggressor Adventures, caught fire in the early hours of 1 November 2019 while moored overnight near Port Ghalib on the last night of a seven-night Brothers/Daedalus/Elphinstone trip. One female guest died in the fire; the cause was never established. The other 18 guests and 12 Egyptian crew evacuated after being woken by the smell of fumes and were picked up by the nearby liveaboard Asmaa. Aggressor Adventures CEO Wayne B Brown said the company would not speculate on cause and described fleet-wide safety reviews undertaken partly in response to the Conception fire two months earlier.

Conditions that day

Wind
5 to 10 kn from 350°
Strongest gust
19 kn
Hour by hour (24 of 24 hours, UTC)
UTCWindGustFrom
00:005 kn8 knNW
01:006 kn9 knNW
02:006 kn9 knNW
03:007 kn10 knNW
04:007 kn9 knNW
05:006 kn9 knNW
06:007 kn11 kn330°
07:008 kn14 kn340°
08:007 kn14 kn350°
09:007 kn15 knN
10:007 kn15 kn10°
11:008 kn15 kn10°
12:009 kn17 kn20°
13:0010 kn18 kn30°
14:0010 kn19 kn30°
15:009 kn18 kn30°
16:007 kn14 kn20°
17:005 kn11 knN
18:005 kn9 kn340°
19:005 kn7 kn330°
20:005 kn8 knNW
21:006 kn8 knNW
22:006 kn10 kn330°
23:007 kn11 kn330°

ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo, sampled 20 km from the recorded position. Modelled conditions across the whole day, not an observation at the vessel: a grid this coarse averages away the localised squall or wave a report may describe. Not a statement of cause.

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Sources

Divernet
Woman dies in Red Sea liveaboard fire·9 November 2019
Divernet
Red Sea Aggressor fire, official statement from Wayne B Brown·10 November 2019
taucher.net (Diveinside News)
Ägypten - Feuer auf Safarischiff: Der Untergang der Red Sea Aggressor 1·5 November 2019
DivePhotoGuide
Red Sea Aggressor I Sinks After Fire, Killing One Diver·7 November 2019