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rlon Monroe, the 17- year-old crewman who suffered burns to 90 percent of his body after the trawler he was working on exploded, succumbed to his injuries on Sunday, after a three-month battle.
According to sources at the Georgetown Public Hospital, the dead teen’s mother, Cheryl Munroe, was later admitted to the hospital, having collapsed on hearing the news.
On June 19, the trawler, ‘Captain Lloyd 97’, which was attached to Pritipaul Singh Investments, exploded about 69 miles away from Port Georgetown. Monroe was among three of the crewmen who had survived the tragedy, while their captain, Delbert Williams, was never found and has been presumed dead.
The now dead teen had told reporters that he was in the engine room with the captain when the incident occurred. Recounting the night of the incident, Monroe had told this newspaper that they were pumping fuel into the engine when Williams discovered an exposed wire.
Upon touching the wire, Monroe said, it sparked and started a fire, which quickly spread and subsequently caused the explosion. Monroe and three other crewmembers — George Fitzpatrick, Keith Adams, and Elvis Todd — were later rescued by a Venezuelan vessel.
Fitzpatrick and Adams also received burns, while Todd was relatively unscathed, reports say.
Munroe had been a patient at the GPHC’s Burns Care Unit ever since he was admitted, and had been reportedly ‘recovering well,’ although he would have some ‘up days and down days’, his mother had said.
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