Tugboat capsize
Discussion
fflyingdog said:
With the number 404?Otispunkmeyer said:
McWigglebum4th said:
Tugs don't just fall over when it is a bit windy
This is the BBC. Of course the wind did it. And It were global warming what caused the wind that did it."The men were working on the tug Asterix at the Fawley marine terminal when it turned over in strong winds just after 20:00 BST on Monday."
That doesn't attribute the capsize to the wind. The high winds would have made the rescue operation more difficult though, possibly grounding the search and rescue helicopter.
princealbert23 said:
Some genuine heroics here by all accounts
So it seems.It was windy last night, usually the case when a tug sinks is that its pulled over by a rope, known as girting, its about a mile acorss the water from here. Well known case of girting on the Clyde a few years back.
Asterix is a little handling tug, no a big F off one.
Huntsman said:
So it seems.
It was windy last night, usually the case when a tug sinks is that its pulled over by a rope, known as girting, its about a mile acorss the water from here. Well known case of girting on the Clyde a few years back.
Asterix is a little handling tug, no a big F off one.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/12681162._Hero_of_the_night__pulled_man_from_cold_waters_after_tug_capsized/It was windy last night, usually the case when a tug sinks is that its pulled over by a rope, known as girting, its about a mile acorss the water from here. Well known case of girting on the Clyde a few years back.
Asterix is a little handling tug, no a big F off one.
Huntsman said:
princealbert23 said:
Some genuine heroics here by all accounts
So it seems.It was windy last night, usually the case when a tug sinks is that its pulled over by a rope, known as girting, its about a mile acorss the water from here. Well known case of girting on the Clyde a few years back.
Asterix is a little handling tug, no a big F off one.
BBC said:
Port operator Clydeport has been fined £650,000 over health and safety failures after three men drowned when their tugboat sank in the River Clyde.
Stephen Humphreys, 33, Eric Blackley, 57, and Robert Cameron, 65, were crew on the Flying Phantom, which capsized in thick fog on 19 December 2007.
Clydeport originally denied breaching health and safety laws but changed its plea to guilty last week.
Tugboat owner Svitzer Marine was fined £1.7m after it admitted failures.
Stephen Humphreys, 33, Eric Blackley, 57, and Robert Cameron, 65, were crew on the Flying Phantom, which capsized in thick fog on 19 December 2007.
Clydeport originally denied breaching health and safety laws but changed its plea to guilty last week.
Tugboat owner Svitzer Marine was fined £1.7m after it admitted failures.
Nothing wrong with this tug it all depends what type of towing it has to do.
I've had a few near misses working on Piet Smit harbour tugs back in the sixties.
Wire snapped towing a big vessel into its berth very lucky to survive standing on deck.Towing the big floating cranes was always hazardous with cross wire connections.Our tugs where single propeller and nowhere near the manoeuvrability of modern tugs.
Often depends on the skill of the tug skipper some are better than others.
I've had a few near misses working on Piet Smit harbour tugs back in the sixties.
Wire snapped towing a big vessel into its berth very lucky to survive standing on deck.Towing the big floating cranes was always hazardous with cross wire connections.Our tugs where single propeller and nowhere near the manoeuvrability of modern tugs.
Often depends on the skill of the tug skipper some are better than others.
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