yeah, btw, there is some chatter now that the fuel of the ship was dodgy, but come on

it's diesel, diesel is diesel is diesel

diesel engines are very tolerant

suddenly spewing black smoke isn't from bad fuel it's from something else, like, for example, fusion causing the rupture of a cylinder, i mean meltdown from a pulse of EMF of course, which is also consistent with the blinking lights 

 maybe some motor heads can correct me on this but i think if you choke a diesel engine of air intake it will blow black smoke too 

 also, just to be clear, the giant diesel engines of large ships, i'm pretty sure they have giant heating coils that help ensure the diesel is hot enough to gasify in the combustion chamber, and if that heat level drops too much it WILL blow black smoke because that's unburned oil... like the grease smoke of a frypan up too hot