Suez Canal containers ships crash
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What are these two up too ? Look like one is playing silly buggers as if one is an Addsion Lee taxi in London traffic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ocTTkHqQcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ocTTkHqQcg
Whoops - guess someone will now be out of a job
Edit - rudder problem allegedly http://online.wsj.com/articles/two-container-ships...
Edit - rudder problem allegedly http://online.wsj.com/articles/two-container-ships...
Edited by MartG on Tuesday 30th September 14:54
When we were waiting at anchor to pass through the Suez, a frozen chicken floated by. Then another, then more and more. Soon we were surrounded by thousands of Chucky Chickens.
Some freezer container must have broken down and the crew lobbed the stinky chucks over the side. The fish and sharks were having a field-day.
Some freezer container must have broken down and the crew lobbed the stinky chucks over the side. The fish and sharks were having a field-day.
Fishtigua said:
When we were waiting at anchor to pass through the Suez, a frozen chicken floated by. Then another, then more and more. Soon we were surrounded by thousands of Chucky Chickens.
Some freezer container must have broken down and the crew lobbed the stinky chucks over the side. The fish and sharks were having a field-day.
You were lucky - anchored off Dubai it was dead camels drifting past from a livestock ship a few hundred yards away - and boy did they stink !Some freezer container must have broken down and the crew lobbed the stinky chucks over the side. The fish and sharks were having a field-day.
CAPP0 said:
What the actual?? The larger ship appears to turn broadside across the smaller one - who makes no apparent attempt to change course! 9I know these things aren't nimble but he didn't even appear to try).
Why, and why?
The Maersk vessel that was hit has the canal bank close on his port side, and the Hapag Lloyd vessel coming towards his starboard side. If he altered to port he would hit the bank, and no doubt be hit by the Hapag Lloyd vessel, if he had altered to starboard he would have just altered the angle of the collision, probably causing greater damage to his own ship. There is little the Maersk vessel could do in the circumstances, I would have put the engine full astern in the hope the other vessel would clear my bow.Why, and why?
IMHO the Hapag Lloyd vessel suffered a steering gear failure, look at the angle of heel as it turns to port; indicative of a large rudder angle being applied and a high rate of turn. Either that or the helmsman applied the large port rudder angle because he was deaf / stupid / not paying attention etc.
I recall a video of a yacht trying to overtake a cruise ship in a canal with a similar outcome. Something to do with being pushed out by the wake of the vessel in the front (vessel 2) as you (vessel 1) pass its stern so you counter with rudder towards the vessel 2 in order to the maintain the parallel course but then the negative(?) pressure amidships of vessel 2 causes vessel 1 to be sucked towards vessel 2. Made worse by the rudder angle now causing you to turn rather than holding a course in a "crosswind" so to be speak. A particular danger of narrow channels as the the forces exerted on the sea by vessel 2 do not disperse but are reflected off the banks.
Something like that IIRC?
Something like that IIRC?
Boatbuoy said:
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