On the early afternoon at around 1400 hours of 26th August a gas powered Sport Cruiser exploded while taking on fuel in the Island of Ponza, and eventually burned up and sank. With three persons onboard, a couple and a daughter this was an avoided tragedy. The fire started from an explosion in the engine compartment, which shot the daughter and mother in the sea, while the boat was refuelling at the Ponza Mare fuel station. The man onboard who was in the cabin, shock jumped in the water just seconds after the explosion. The immediate operation of the Coast Guard was important to control the fire and move the boat away which had the Carloforte car ferry of company LazioMar some meters away at the time of the explosion. The DMD Sea Service of Ponza eventually towed away the boat away from the Ponza harbour and let it burn down offshore.
The sport cruiser in this boat fire is a Mano 26.50 Cruiser powered by twin gas engines. Mano was a company from Naples, Italy founded in 1990 with the company closing its doors in 2012.
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