The emergency services and about 100 actors yesterday took part in the third day of Operation Resilient Islands – a simulated exercise in which a ferry called Jaguar suffers steering problems and crashes into a cruise ship carrying 4,000 passengers.
The programme began on Monday, and on Tuesday a French search and rescue helicopter airlifted firefighters onto the Duke of Normandy tug, which was being used as the Jaguar.
Yesterday, Condor Rapide was drafted in as the Jaguar to give the emergency services the chance to practice the drill on a ferry.
In the scenario, Jaguar had been towed into the Harbour while a fire spread through its car deck. During yesterday’s operation, firefighters had to gain access to the vessel while a machine pumped smoke onto the deck to simulate a real blaze.
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