33 hurt and 21 rushed to hospital after billionaire Microsoft founder's ship blows over
The fire service and ambulances have arrived at Leith Docks in Edinburgh, Scotland.
A rescue operation has been launched at the Imperial Dock area in Leith.
The ship, a research vessel named RV Petrel, is owned by the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
RV Petrel is operated by the US Navy and is used as a deep submergence research vessel.
RV Petrel, or R/V Petrel (IMO: 9268629, MMSI: 235102789),[2] is a 76.45 m (250.8 ft) research vessel owned by the United States Navy and once owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The ship is named after the petrel, a type of sea bird. In 2016, Allen purchased the offshore service vessel formerly named Seven Petrel from Subsea 7, a subsea engineering, construction, and services company. In 2017, the ship completed an extensive retrofitting to become a deep-submergence research vessel. It was then the only privately owned vessel in the world equipped to explore 6,000 m (19,685 ft) depths. It also served as a testing bed for new deep-sea equipment that has never been deployed on any other ship.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1749416/boat-capsize-leith-dock-pictures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Petrel
> It also served as a testing bed for new deep-sea equipment that has never been deployed on any other ship.
Wonder if that would include explosive devices used to blow up a pipe line.