Oil tanker & cargo ship collide - North Sea

[spitfire-ian]

bobbo89 said:

How accurate is Vessel Finder? From the looks of things they've managed to pull the Solong away from Stena with the Yangtze pulling between...

Looking at MarineTraffic, The Immaculate's position is fairly current but the Solong's is from around 3 1/2 hours ago.

[Petrus1983]

Unbelievable this could happen. Hope there's no fatalities.

[bobbo89]

spitfire-ian said:

Looking at MarineTraffic, The Immaculate's position is fairly current but the Solong's is from around 3 1/2 hours ago.

Ah yes, hadn't clocked that, new to marine stuff with this being my first time tracking vessels and I'm getting a bit hooked like I am with FR24

[Bighoose]

LHRFlightman said:

Wasn't this built so the front wouldn't fall off?

it was built to rigorous maritime engineering standards (no cardboard used in construction) and was crewed in line with the minimum crewing requirements (one crew member).

[ApOrbital]

CountyAFC said:

Has the front fallen off?

Of course the front fell off.

[mikeswagon]

Bighoose said:

LHRFlightman said:

Wasn't this built so the front wouldn't fall off?

it was built to rigorous maritime engineering standards (no cardboard used in construction) and was crewed in line with the minimum crewing requirements (one crew member).

It's ok, they'll simply tow it outside the environment.

[ApOrbital]

What environment.

[Simpo Two]

ApOrbital said:

What environment.

Well there was one this morning, but now it's buggered. How many windmills will be needed to make up for that lot?

[98elise]

BrettMRC said:

What was the visibility like at that time?

Seems incredible it can have happened....but then again...people are involved, so nothings impossible!

I nearly witnessed something similar, but in bizarre circumstances.

Many years ago I got to see USS New Jersey doing a broadside, while on exercise with a number of other warships.



Obviously this is done well out at sea, and on a clear day. There were at least 6 or 7 fairly large warships lining up, with multiple helicopters overhead for a photo opportunity, so quite easy to spot.

In the lead up to the shoot this happened!....



The ship didn't seem to alter course. It just casually passed through a line of warships, nearly hitting an armour plated battleship!

Apologies for the poor quality photos. Taken with a cheap film camera in 1988, then scanned and cropped!

Edited by 98elise on Monday 10th March 14:58

[PushedDover]

Ricepilot said:

PushedDover said:

Conspiracy theorists can double down - the Jet Fuel tanker is one of 10 tankers dedicated / charter to the US military.

Wait till they get hold of the message that was sent out by the HSE at 0830 this very morning...

(and yes, I do get that they are alluding to wind farms etc, but when has that stopped a good conspiracy?)

Thats referring tot he nearby, but previous Louis Dreyfus Wind of Nope driving in to the Horn Sea 1 wind turbine I imagine .....


cut the corner, change of watch. No one actually 'watching'

[PushedDover]

image just received:

[essayer]

incredible photo

[TGCOTF-dewey]

Are they trying to sink it or put the fire out...

Any news on whether any of the tanks are holed?

[BlindedByTheLights]

That’s a striking photo.

[dukeboy749r]

Conspiracy theory incoming, but this isn't some remote corner of the world, nor an active trouble zone, so folk may be forgiven for thinking that driving a freighter into a stationary fuel-laden tanker, isn't exactly 'run of the mill'. Surely?

[TGCOTF-dewey]

dukeboy749r said:

Conspiracy theory incoming, but this isn't some remote corner of the world, nor an active trouble zone, so folk may be forgiven for thinking that driving a freighter into a stationary fuel-laden tanker, isn't exactly 'run of the mill'. Surely?

TBH, it's amazing it doesn't happen more often given some of the crewing practices and shocking design of some bridges.

[epom]

WTF, obvious question is obvious, but how on earth does that happen in this day and age ?

[vaud]

epom said:

WTF, obvious question is obvious, but how on earth does that happen in this day and age ?

Very crowded shipping lanes. Humans. Training. Systems failure. Pirates. etc. Take your pick. Nothing is infallible but it is extremely rare and generally very safe (per boat/km or ton/km or whatever measure is used)

[vaud]

ApOrbital said:

What environment.

For those that miss the reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM&t=...

[Gareth79]

Presumably since both vessels have AIS, a system would have set off repeated collision alarms, but they were ignored for whatever reasons?