Officials say the plane caught fire MV Holiday Island The ferry has been extinguished and the process of clearing passenger vehicles and cargo has begun.
a passenger waiting for his car Luca McKennaAn Ontarian whose sea voyage got derailed as soon as the alarm sounded on board the ship.
“I was nervous initially, I was kind of worried,” he says.
He says that he and his partner in Nova Scotia will meet the family and PEI. But after the camping trip we were on the ferry
They were on deck to take pictures when the horn was sounded for the first time, minutes before the boat went to dock.
“I thought we were in the dock now, but then a plume of smoke surrounded us,” says McKenna. “That’s when I went: ‘Crap, this isn’t great.'”
Canadian Coast Guard officials said at a news conference on Sunday that the pair and about 220 other souls were rescued without any problems or injuries.
McKenna He and his partner found housing on PEI while they waited to hear what happened next.
Northumberland Ferries vice president Don Cormier said they were expecting an evacuation with their vehicles on Sunday evening or Monday. The company will make arrangements to send them to those who have since traveled outside the region.
He says no one has suffered any “obvious” damage.
A mandatory annual inspection of the yacht was carried out in May.
As for the damage done to the vessel, it will take some time to determine.
The fire is believed to have started in the engine room, but the crew is yet to reach the source.
“We have not entered engine room space and do not expect to do so until a thorough assessment has been made on the stability of the ship,” says Cormier.
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Ferry service on the route has been canceled for Monday, with the remaining ferries expected to return as scheduled on Tuesday.
Despite the circumstances, the evacuation was not a terrifying experience, says McKenna.
“It was a lot of people coming together. Staying calm and doing the right thing. Nobody panicked, nobody got hurt,” he says.
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