The company Brittany Ferries' ship, victim of a fire on the night of Sunday to Monday, arrived in Brest and its passengers disembarked in their vehicle or on foot to chartered buses. Pont-Aven , 184 meters long, docked at the port of the city of Ponant around 15 hours with 766 passengers and 142 crew members. He was to connect Plymouth, in Great Britain, to Santander, Spain.
"Nobody panicked"
Vehicles, mostly registered in Great Britain, began to disembark from the ship and leave the port area at about 4 pm Passengers without a vehicle were picked up by bus to Roscoff to board another ship bound for Plymouth.
"It was a bit scary when we had to put on the lifejackets," said a few reporters Andrew Haydon, a resident of South West England. "Nobody has panicked," he added, however, ensuring he heard a "horrible noise" before the fire alarm sounded around 15:30.
No injuries among 766 passengers
The vessel alerted Etel's Regional Operations and Rescue Center (CROSS) at 4:00 AM that a fire was being fired in one of its two machine compartments. It was then 77 nautical miles (142 km) south of the Penmarc'h Finistère Point. "The fire was quickly controlled and there were no casualties among the 766 passengers and 142 crew members," said spokesman Riaz Akhoune.