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Figure 1.<br />
Fire damaged cabling above the main engines (underneath the<br />
machinery control room) Photograph courtesy of WA Police Service<br />
14. The starboard main engine was shut down and electrical power to the main<br />
machinery space isolated. The emergency generator started automatically. The machinery<br />
control room was evacuated at 1038. One minute later, the Engineering Officer<br />
recommended to the Commanding Officer that the main machinery space be drenched with<br />
carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). One person was thought to still be in the machinery space and the<br />
recommendation was not accepted at that time.<br />
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