Container ship loses 1800 containers

[bitchstewie]

1800-1900 containers lost or damaged apparently

https://www.one-apus-container-incident.com/

[Mammasaid]

Jenga level expert fail..

[NITO]

Hitting one of those would ruin your day!

[PixelpeepZ4]

i think diving might turn into quite a lucrative hobby !

[rev-erend]

"1600NM North West of Hawaii,"

Sounds like that is in the middle of no-where.

My guess is the containers will just sink after a few days.

[SpeckledJim]

rev-erend said:

"1600NM North West of Hawaii,"

Sounds like that is in the middle of no-where.

My guess is the containers will just sink after a few days.

Or float just below the surface ready to be discovered by a lucky yachtsman in the middle of the night.

[Getragdogleg]

I got into buying and selling containers because of a shipwreck.

We were involved in the salvage side of things and I ended up with loads of damaged recovered containers in my yard.

[LochTay]

[quote]Or float just below the surface ready to be discovered by a lucky yachtsman in the middle of the night.
[/quote]

See the Vendee Globe race thread

[rowley birkin]

I wonder if there were any PlayStation 5 consoles on board ?

[soad]

rowley birkin said:

I wonder if there were any PlayStation 5 consoles on board ?

Won’t be any good, Shirley?

[Nomadic Mind]

Do you ever get that sinking feeling?

[Simpo Two]

[rev-erend]

SpeckledJim said:

rev-erend said:

"1600NM North West of Hawaii,"

Sounds like that is in the middle of no-where.

My guess is the containers will just sink after a few days.

Or float just below the surface ready to be discovered by a lucky yachtsman in the middle of the night.

Not a nice way to get woken up.

[OtherBusiness]

I guess it's too expensive but some sort of hydrostatic release system that floods the container if it falls overboard would be good. Then it would sink rather than float just below the surface.

[SpeckledJim]

OtherBusiness said:

I guess it's too expensive but some sort of hydrostatic release system that floods the container if it falls overboard would be good. Then it would sink rather than float just below the surface.

Unless the products in the container are buoyant in themselves. Not an easy problem, this.

[Getragdogleg]

They float for ages.

As mentioned above, often just below the surface.

[anonymous-user]

Imagine your newly purchased classic car was in one of them !

[eldar]

I remember another container ship sinking a few years back, lost more than this one.

It was MOL Comfort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOL_Comfort?wprov=sf...

Edited by eldar on Monday 7th December 16:17

[Smiljan]

Getragdogleg said:

They float for ages.

As mentioned above, often just below the surface.

Robert Redford film All is lost - worth a watch. Yacht vs container.

[CrutyRammers]

SpeckledJim said:

LochTay said:

Or float just below the surface ready to be discovered by a lucky yachtsman in the middle of the night.

See the Vendee Globe race thread

Aye, Sam Davies' encounter off the Cape of Good Hope sounded pretty terrifying:
"I was sailing at speeds between 15 and 22kts and I was actually just making a hot meal after the gybe and doing the stack and everything and it was just starting to get dark. I hit something. I did not see anything. I did not know what it was. It was pretty much dark when it happened. But it was as if I had run aground on a rock at the time. The boatspeed went from 20kts to zero. The boat nosedived on the impact with the keel. I knew it was the keel. I heard a crack coming from there. I and everything else flew forwards, including my dinner which has repainted the entire inside of my boat. Everything moved. I went flying into a ring frame, luckily, because that could have been worse. It was really violent. But luckily I have just hurt some ribs. It is not serious but really painful. But I stopped the boat, dropped the main, and went to check around the keel, the bearings and the bulkhead. The bulkhead, the main bearing bulkheads (which support the keelbox) are intact as far as I can see. The keelbearings are intact. The longitudinal structure around the keelbox is all cracked. That has taken the shock of the impact of when the boat moved, that is cracked on both sides."

Back in port now but it was leaking fairly significantly after that.