Fire on the Sea Safari VII

44 incidents

				Place			Missing	Sources
14 Jul 2026	Sea Spirit	Luxury Divers	Flooding	off Ras Ghareb, Gulf of Suez	Egypt	1	0	5
9 May 2026	Emperor Explorer	Emperor Group	Fire	near the Fish Factory dive-site, Hulhumale, near Male	Maldives	0	0	4
13 Mar 2026	Galatea	Blue Sea Divers	Flooding	near Marie-Louise Island, Amirantes group	Seychelles	0	3	2
7 Mar 2026	Maina Safari	Maina Safari	Fire	Feydhoo harbour, Addu City	Maldives	0	0	2
27 Feb 2026	Golden Dolphin II	Golden Dolphin Safari World	Fire	Hurghada	Egypt	0	0	2
21 Jan 2026	Golden Dolphin III	Golden Dolphin Safari World	Fire	Hurghada	Egypt	0	0	2
24 Dec 2025	Yasawa Princess	Deep Blue Dive Centres	Fire	off Kuda Anbaraa, Vaavu Atoll	Maldives	0	0	2
25 Nov 2025	Seaphoria	—	Grounding	Daedalus Reef (Abu Kizan)	Egypt	0	0	2
24 Oct 2025	Royal Evolution	Red Sea Paradise for Cruises SAE	Grounding	Abu Dabbab reef, near Marsa Alam	Egypt	0	0	2
20 Apr 2025	Firebird	Into The Blue	Grounding	north of Sharm El Sheikh, Gulf of Aqaba	Egypt	0	0	3
12 Apr 2025	MV DiveRACE Class E	DiveRACE	Fire	off Khao Lak, near Thap Lamu Pier	Thailand	0	0	4
13 Mar 2025	Emperor Seven Seas	Emperor Divers	Fire	Port Ghalib marina	Egypt	0	0	2
6 Feb 2025	Triton	Triton Red Sea Adventures	Capsize	off Jabal Al-Zeit, north of Hurghada	Egypt	0	0	2
4 Feb 2025	Putri Papua	Grand Komodo	Capsize	off Sorong, Southwest Papua, en route to Misool	Indonesia	0	0	2
25 Nov 2024	Sea Story	Dive Pro Liveaboard	Capsize	en route to Sha'ab Sataya, off Marsa Alam	Egypt	11	0	4
7 Nov 2024	Blue Voyager	Master Liveaboards	Fire	Hulhumale lagoon, near Male	Maldives	0	0	4
6 Nov 2024	MV Nouran	Red Sea Explorers	Fire	Daedalus Reef	Egypt	0	0	2
24 Oct 2024	Seaduction	—	Grounding	Elba Reef, near the Egypt-Sudan border	Egypt	0	0	4
25 Jun 2024	Exocet	Diving Attitude	Grounding	Sataya Reef, near Marsa Alam	Egypt	0	0	2
2 May 2024	Sea Safari VII	Sea Safari Cruises	Fire	off Pulau Penga, near Labuan Bajo	Indonesia	0	0	3
1 Mar 2024	Oceanic	Dive Indonesia	Fire	near Arborek, Raja Ampat	Indonesia	0	0	2
22 Feb 2024	Sea Legend	Dive Pro Liveaboard	Fire	off El Hamrawein, north of El Quseir	Egypt	0	1	3
23 Dec 2023	Reggae Queen	—	Capsize	about 4 nautical miles south of the Surin Islands, Andaman Sea	Thailand	0	2	3
30 Nov 2023	Indo Siren	Master Liveaboards	Fire	off Piaynemo, Raja Ampat	Indonesia	0	0	3
28 Oct 2023	Emperor Echo	Emperor Divers	Grounding	Fury Shoals	Egypt	0	0	2
11 Jun 2023	Hurricane	Tornado Marine Fleet	Fire	Elphinstone Reef	Egypt	3	0	5
7 Jun 2023	New Dream	Mirage Marine Fleet	Grounding	Red Sea, en route to Marsa Alam	Egypt	0	0	2
30 Apr 2023	Dream Keeper	—	Capsize	about 4 nautical miles from Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, Sulu Sea	Philippines	0	4	4
24 Apr 2023	Carlton Queen	Carlton Fleet	Capsize	Sha'ab Abu Nuhas, Strait of Gubal	Egypt	0	0	4
30 Oct 2022	Felo	Seawolf Diving Safari	Grounding	Shabrour Suyl reef, near Sha'ab Abu Nuhas	Egypt	0	0	2
9 May 2022	Socorro Vortex	Pacific Fleet	Grounding	Socorro Island, Revillagigedo Islands	Mexico	0	0	2
18 Apr 2022	Scuba Scene	—	Fire	Hurghada	Egypt	0	0	3
25 Jan 2021	Nautilus One	—	Fire	about 13 nautical miles from Kaashidhoo	Maldives	0	0	3
1 Nov 2019	Red Sea Aggressor I	Aggressor Adventures	Fire	near Port Ghalib	Egypt	1	0	4
2 Sept 2019	Conception	Truth Aquatics	Fire	Platts Harbor, Santa Cruz Island	United States	34	0	6
31 Jan 2018	WAOW	—	Fire	Biak Harbour, Cenderawasih Bay, Papua	Indonesia	0	0	3
15 Nov 2017	Fiji Siren	Worldwide Dive and Sail	Flooding	Bligh Water, off the Namena Marine Reserve	Fiji	0	0	2
13 May 2017	Overseas	—	Fire	northern Red Sea, out of Hurghada	Egypt	0	0	3
29 Jan 2014	Aladdin	Aladdin Dive Safari	Flooding	between Koh Bon and Koh Tachai, Andaman Sea	Thailand	0	0	4
16 Apr 2013	Little Princess	Khao Lak Scuba Adventures	Flooding	off Koh Tachai, Andaman Sea	Thailand	0	0	2
16 Dec 2009	Emperor Fraser	Emperor Divers	Grounding	Dunraven reef, near Sharm El Sheikh	Egypt	0	0	4
18 Nov 2009	Coral Princess	—	Flooding	approx. 12 nautical miles off Sharm el-Sheikh, near Ras Mohamed	Egypt	0	2	4
8 Mar 2009	Dive Asia 1	Dive Asia	Capsize	off Patong, between Kamala and Patong, Phuket	Thailand	6	1	3
8 Oct 2001	Wave Dancer	Peter Hughes Diving	Capsize	Port of Big Creek, Stann Creek District	Belize	20	0	3

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Fire on the Sea Safari VII

Operator
Vessel
Date
Location: off Pulau Penga, near Labuan Bajo, Indonesia
Fatalities: 0

According to Basarnas, Divernet and DIVE Magazine, the Sea Safari Cruises liveaboard Sea Safari VII, the largest ironwood phinisi in the fleet with 14 en-suite cabins for up to 28 guests, caught fire between about 8.30am and 8.50am on 2 May 2024 off Pulau Penga near Labuan Bajo, while chartered by Scuba Junkie Komodo. Everyone aboard abandoned ship; Basarnas and DIVE gave 33 aboard, while an eyewitness count implied around 42. Four people were hospitalised with burns or respiratory complaints, and the vessel was destroyed. British passenger Mike Day, a trained firefighter, told Divernet the crew's firefighting equipment and response were extremely poor; Sea Safari Cruises responded that the situation unfolded rapidly and that the evacuation was completed collectively in roughly 19 minutes. Both accounts are on record.

Conditions that day

Wind: 9 to 14 kn from the SE
Strongest gust: 19 kn

Hour by hour (24 of 24 hours, UTC)

UTC	Wind	Gust	From
00:00	11 kn	17 kn	SE
01:00	11 kn	17 kn	150°
02:00	11 kn	17 kn	150°
03:00	10 kn	15 kn	150°
04:00	9 kn	13 kn	150°
05:00	10 kn	13 kn	150°
06:00	11 kn	14 kn	150°
07:00	13 kn	18 kn	150°
08:00	13 kn	18 kn	150°
09:00	14 kn	19 kn	SE
10:00	14 kn	19 kn	SE
11:00	14 kn	19 kn	SE
12:00	14 kn	18 kn	SE
13:00	13 kn	17 kn	SE
14:00	13 kn	17 kn	SE
15:00	13 kn	16 kn	SE
16:00	13 kn	16 kn	SE
17:00	13 kn	17 kn	SE
18:00	13 kn	17 kn	SE
19:00	14 kn	19 kn	SE
20:00	14 kn	19 kn	SE
21:00	14 kn	19 kn	SE
22:00	13 kn	19 kn	SE
23:00	13 kn	18 kn	150°

ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo, sampled 11 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.

Sources

Basarnas (Maumere SAR office)

Kapal Wisata Sea Safari VII Terbakar di Perairan Pulau Penga Labuan Bajo, Tim SAR Gabungan Lakukan Evakuasi Korban·2 May 2024

Divernet

Divers and crew escape as another liveaboard blazes·4 May 2024

DIVE Magazine

Sea Safari VII liveaboard destroyed by fire in Komodo·7 May 2024

DiveSafe

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