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The second engineer was in the engine-room carrying out some maintenance jobs when he that the main engine’s turbo charger was over speeding at a dangerous . Before he could reach the control room to shut down the main engine, the turbo charger . This was the second turbo charger explosion in four months, but no one was injured. The 1972-built bulk carrier was grounded by its master after the ship took water into cargo holds Nos. 6 and 7 during cyclonic weather and seas. The water could not be removed by either the ship’s fixed pumps or pumps lowered into the holds. All crew members were safely from the ship after the grounding. A four-engine twin-screw passenger vessel left port with all four engines running but lost power some thirty minutes later and dangerously close to land. The engines stopped because of the loss of water in the main engine cooling system and overheating. There was considerable delay in restarting the main engines because of loss of air pressure from the air start system. The air compressor had to be shut down as the engineers had to it.