Aug.07--A MAN received third degree burns over most of his body while fighting an engine room fire aboard a containership 30 miles off San Diego on its way to Mazatlan, Mexico, according to the US Coast Guard.

San Diego's City New Service reported that other crewmen aboard the containership Jupiter notified the coast guard to report the blaze, according to Petty Officer Henry Dunphy.

The injured man, aged 55, was hoisted into a US Coast Guard helicopter that flew 30 miles out to the scene and taken to the coast guard base in San Deigo before being turned over to the University of California San Diego hospital burn unit.

The cause of the fire was unknown, but other crewmen extinguished it.@FAXTEXT - Ship spotter blog, Ship Nostalgia, said the MV Jupiter is a the Liberian flagged vessel, but did not find it to be a containership but rather a geared bulker. Hong Kong Shipping Gazette googling produced the HK-flagged 14,074-TEU CSCL Jupiter built in 2011, but Wikipedia also lists 15 ships with that name.

(Source:shippingazette)