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Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

This is the article I was reading , while she is far from being an expert and assuming she isn't making it up she remembers a strong fuel smell on board . If nothing else it may be one piece of the puzzle .


https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mom-recounts-her-march-trip-011941978.html

It was a wood hull boat built in 1981. It only takes a small amount of diesel to create a stink and it is very hard to get rid of. Diesel had nothing to do with what went wrong. Diesel is very difficult to ignite. Once the fire got going the diesel would have ignited and burned but, by the time the diesel ignited it would have already been an inferno.

Boat had Nitrox refill tank on board to refill the nitrox dive tanks. I wonder where that was stored in relation ship to propane tanks, fire source? If that tank or line ruptured in connection with propane that is a super heated fire.