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Posted by EdGrune on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:16 PM

Full reporting and assessment at the CARGOLAW site run by litigators Countryman & McDaniel. 

The Indian government is encouraging salvors to round up the containers so that the port of Mumbai can be opened to traffic

CARGOLAW seems to always have good pics of maritime and other disasters

(caution, turn down the volume before going to their main page - the Perry Mason theme music blares loundly!)

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Posted by onyxman on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:04 PM

Containerships always look top-heavy because of all those cans on deck, but many of them could be empty, or have low density cargo.   Anyway, it's always bad to have that deck edge go under.

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Posted by mfsob on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 8:29 AM

As Ricky Ricardo would say, "Lucy, you go some 'splainin' to do!!!!!"

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Posted by ddp59 on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:03 PM

i think you mean container ship not container.

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Posted by kermit on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 11:27 AM

Gooooood.... That's one less container to empty for me.... (im a warehouse dude)

Richard

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill

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Posted by CrashTestDummy on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 11:23 AM

I suspect a dispersant sprayer.

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

 

 

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Pearland, Texas

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Posted by VanceCrozier on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:49 AM

Manny's gonna be ticked - the Zuiho that he ordered was on that ship...

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Posted by bondoman on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:32 AM

What's that thing under the helicopter?

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Posted by Big Jake on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 7:52 AM

I had not read the article, but figured that she was "Fast on the Rocks" becasue with the weight she has on deck at that angle she would have turned turtle by now, no matter how much DC and counter flooding she can handle. that got to be at least 70 degrees.

 

 

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Posted by subfixer on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:21 AM

That is one heck of a list. I wonder how much water is under the keel. If they can off load her and make her less top heavy, she might come back to a more even keel. At least the oil seems to be light, like diesel fuel (which it probably is) so it will, more than likely, evaporate.

 My last ship, the Lexington, ran aground off of Boston Harbor in '75. Some wiseacre wrote "Cap'n Crunch and his Funny Bunch" on the hull in huge red lead primer letters. The press loved it; the CO did not. It didn't matter anyway, he got canned for the incident.

edit: After reading further, I learned that this container ship ran aground, which is a good thing.

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Posted by Pawel on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:54 AM

Yeah, and now imagine a model you ordered was in one of the containers that slipped into the sea...

Boy does this look bad! I wonder if the ship can be saved. That tilt must make any work to do there really hard. Oil is spilling too... Ain't it a damn shame when it happens!

Thanks for another interesting article Crackers!

Pawel Mroczkowski

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Collision at sea.
Posted by crackers on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:14 AM

      On August 9, 2010, the Panamanian registered container ship, MSC CHITRA, collided with the MV-KHALIJIA  II, a St. Kits registered ship. The stricken CHITRA, lies tilted in the Arabian Sea close to Mumbai (Bombay), India.

         

 

 

 

     Looks like someone is going to have some hard explaining to do. I would like to be a fly on the wall to hear the excuse.

          Montani semper liberi !                Happy modeling to all and every one of you.

                                        Crackers                              Geeked

Anthony V. Santos

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