Ship stuck on Bramble Bank.

[Huntsman]

530dTPhil said:

Just going past on the IOW ferry and appears to be ready to go, fully upright as has been said.

She's on her way. Just appraoching West Bramble.

[Fishtigua]

Marine Traffic.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/oldshipi...

They seem to have not enabled the AIS.

[Huntsman]

Fishtigua said:

Marine Traffic.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/oldshipi...

They seem to have not enabled the AIS.

I assume she is in amongst the cluster of tugs, or they've fked off and left her.

[KTF]

I suspect its amongst this cluster - the blue icons are all tugs:

[Riff Raff]

Visible on the Hamble webcam from here.

Sorry I can't direct link it. It ought to be on the Calshot cam too, but that seems to be buggered.

http://www.ship-tracking.co.uk/Webcams/

[KTF]

Riff Raff said:

Visible on the Hamble webcam from here.

Sorry I can't direct link it. It ought to be on the Calshot cam too, but that seems to be buggered.

http://www.ship-tracking.co.uk/Webcams/

This may work: http://80.175.158.232/view/viewer_index.shtml?id=5...

[mybrainhurts]

KTF said:

This may work: http://80.175.158.232/view/viewer_index.shtml?id=5...

Or not...

[KTF]

mybrainhurts said:

Or not...

It was until everyone told everyone else about it

[KTF]

Well its back in port now according to AIS.

Bring on the pictures of the insides.

[Lincsblokey]

KTF said:

Well its back in port now according to AIS.

Bring on the pictures of the insides.

Inside port lines but not berthed yet according to twitter.

[Zed Ed]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-309...

[gwm]

Do folk get 25p since the ship is safe but the cargo was written off?

[hidetheelephants]

Gargamel said:

Getragdogleg said:

Early pictures showed some mannequins dressed up to look like crew to deter pirates.

How the hell would a pirate get up the side of that ? The salvors are using a helicopter

The Salvors are interested in a long and rewarding life.

The average Somali pirate has a grapnel, rope, impressive personal courage and a total disregard for health and safety.

http://www.brighthubengineering.com/seafaring/6443...

Edited by Gargamel on Thursday 22 January 12:34

If you have a look at the sides you'll see inset areas near the waterline; these are for the boarding gangways, bunkering stations and pilot boarding ladder and they all have access to the car decks via watertight doors which are not armoured and a few well placed hand grenades or some other explosives would likely have them off.

[Fishtigua]

Well she's along side and tied-up now. Lucky boys with the weather.

[Fishtigua]

[fatboy18]

Very cool pic

[rustandoil]

Excellent picture

[eharding]

Gargamel said:

The Salvors are interested in a long and rewarding life.

The average Somali pirate has a grapnel, rope, impressive personal courage and a total disregard for health and safety.

http://www.brighthubengineering.com/seafaring/6443...

Edited by Gargamel on Thursday 22 January 12:34

The average Somali pirate has either found alternative means of passing the time which don't involve being a pirate, or has tragically passed away in one of the spate of unexplained accidents that befell the remaining pirate operators.

[hornetrider]

A job well done! Love to be a fly on the wall inside!

[Legmaster]

hornetrider said:

A job well done! Love to be a fly on the wall inside!

Agreed. There's not many ships leaving a port in the world that develops a 'fatal' list, that are back alongside a couple of weeks later with no loss of life, nor pollution, etc.

No doubt there's some cock ups to come out of the official accident investigation, but if you ask me, that's a pretty good result all round in the grand scheme of things.