Ship stuck on Bramble Bank.

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KTF

9,788 posts

149 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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Given that the blue thing - looks like road building equipment - was under the water line for a period it looks pretty unscathed so the seal on that door must be pretty good or maybe only certain compartments had water in them?

Lincsblokey

3,175 posts

154 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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KTF said:
Given that the blue thing - looks like road building equipment - was under the water line for a period it looks pretty unscathed so the seal on that door must be pretty good or maybe only certain compartments had water in them?
Theres another pic that shows the back end lhs of that trakpactor destroyed.

Lost soul

8,712 posts

181 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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Lincsblokey said:
KTF said:
Given that the blue thing - looks like road building equipment - was under the water line for a period it looks pretty unscathed so the seal on that door must be pretty good or maybe only certain compartments had water in them?
Theres another pic that shows the back end lhs of that trakpactor destroyed.
I wonder what's underneath it

mrmaggit

10,146 posts

247 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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gwm said:
fatboy18 said:
I think they might ease the ship up using the tugs to stop it doing just that.
Ships can capsize tied up alongside, so it ain't cover yet!

(For those sensitive souls, I jest!)
The Normandie capsized when tied up alongside the berth during the war. Admitted it was on fire, but they could have let her sink to the harbour floor, but weren't quick enough.

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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mrmaggit said:
gwm said:
fatboy18 said:
I think they might ease the ship up using the tugs to stop it doing just that.
Ships can capsize tied up alongside, so it ain't cover yet!

(For those sensitive souls, I jest!)
The Normandie capsized when tied up alongside the berth during the war. Admitted it was on fire, but they could have let her sink to the harbour floor, but weren't quick enough.
That's not quite how it happened, they poured so much water into the top part of the ship to try and put the fire out, but did not balance the ship out as the water was going in, the ship became top heavy and tipped over, think they were supposed to open some side doors?

GEARJAMMER

445 posts

138 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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KTF said:
Given that the blue thing - looks like road building equipment - was under the water line for a period it looks pretty unscathed so the seal on that door must be pretty good or maybe only certain compartments had water in them?
Pretty sure that its a trummel, its used for recycling spoil, tip the spoil into the top/shoot (top left of the machine as seen in the pic), and the soil and various different grades of stones come out different places of it.

(That's the easiest way to describe it)
There pretty tough old pieces of kit, shame if its written off/scrapped, i'll bet it still works.

Nickyboy

6,700 posts

233 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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crossy67 said:
As said before, great achievement by all the salvage crew.

The 1st thing you see when the doors are opened is something very big, blue and very expensive looking. That SWL 100MT, is that Million tonnes biggrin
That's a rock crusher, weighs in at around 30 tons

Lincsblokey

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Friday 23rd January 2015
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Nickyboy

6,700 posts

233 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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So in all intents and purposes a rock crusher? Just an fancy expensive one

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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KTF said:
Given that the blue thing - looks like road building equipment - was under the water line for a period it looks pretty unscathed so the seal on that door must be pretty good or maybe only certain compartments had water in them?
This is why i don't think stuff like that^^ will get written off. Sure,maybe back to the manufacturer for a shop of paint and a check, but it's a rock crusher, it's going to spend the next 50 years of it's life at the bottom of a quarry, covered in water, mud and s**t, having hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rock dumped, probably quite carelessly into it from the bucket of a big power shovel etc! Frankly, a few days with some sea water lapping it's tracks is just a nice wash by comparison ;-)

MOTORVATOR

6,993 posts

246 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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Spot on Max. 56 tonne impact crusher and write off is out of the question.

The things are just a load of modular parts anyway and what will look like huge damage will more likely be the outer casings that for all intents are just there to keep the st and body parts out of the workings or a couple of belt conveyors that can just be unbolted and replaced.

The only people that will be talking write off will be the paddy standing on the side of the dock trying to buy it cheap.

normalbloke

7,401 posts

218 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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ecsrobin said:
DAVEVO9 said:
Fantastic job all round.

Surprised no pics have leaked out of the damage inside yet
I would have thought its a small team that's been on board so any leaked images the culprit would be tracked down quite easily.
Exactly this! I've seen a few images inside and out that aren't yet for,public consumption!

LouD86

3,278 posts

152 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Same here, some interesting ones. There is another ship two along aswell which is pretty damaged! Nice crane did some damage in that one!

Hooli

32,278 posts

199 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Amazing they got it back into dock safely, I didn't think it'd happen when I first saw the photos. Some damn good work done there thumbup

RussH91

363 posts

159 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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Been following this thread from this start, has been great. Thank you, to all the contributors who posted links when it disappeared from 'current affairs'. So do we think we'll ever see the extent of the damage with in the ship??

hidetheelephants

23,772 posts

192 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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RussH91 said:
Been following this thread from this start, has been great. Thank you, to all the contributors who posted links when it disappeared from 'current affairs'. So do we think we'll ever see the extent of the damage with in the ship??
The full story will appear in the MAIB report in 12-18 months, there will likely be pictures of key parts of the ship in this report.

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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Anyone know if anything has been unloaded yet (apart from the crews underpants when it first went over) biggrin

jmorgan

36,010 posts

283 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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I suppose they tilt it on its side and jiggle all the cars out?

KTF

9,788 posts

149 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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I would expect it to be level when it is loaded/unloaded? Not sure why it still has a bit of a lean on it rather than being level given how much they pumped out, etc.

AW111

9,455 posts

132 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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KTF said:
I would expect it to be level when it is loaded/unloaded? Not sure why it still has a bit of a lean on it rather than being level given how much they pumped out, etc.
I'm picturing everything moveable below decks all piled up on the low side.