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Container ship aground

More containers had fallen into heaving seas from the ship, which is listing at about 20 degrees. Eighty-eight of the 1,368 containers have been lost and authorities said one was carrying a hazardous substance which can explode on contact with water.


Sounds like lithium or sodium or something...
 
So, what's stopping them from bringing out smaller ships that could avoid running aground on the reef or even just another big ship to sit at a safe distance while Sikorsky helos transfer the containers?
 
Things like the safety of the people who have to rig and un-hook the containers, the availability of Sky-cranes, stuff like that.
 
Sea cargo is insured. Nobody's going to risk life and limb to rescue a container. It's not even worth it financially. A ship would be very expensive. A helo would be ridiculously expensive. Both options would be very unsafe.
 
I can't imagine anyone climbing on that thing with the weight of those containers while the whole thing if shifting and trying to unhook the containers. Not to even mention they are tied down together, you unhook on you unhook the entire stack I bet.
 
This will need to be taken care of. You can't just call insurance and leave it be. If it's stuck on a reef, this is an ecological disaster waiting to happen, especially if somehow one of the containers might explode when contacting water. The reefs are dying worldwide, no way anyone lets this just sit.

Buoy the side that's sinking and try driving/dragging it out. Start making arrangements now for sky cranes. Hell, I bet a CH53 could possibly lift one of these containers.
 
This is an ecological disaster happening. It's not waiting.
link to Yahoo news slideshow

1700 tons of bunker oil in the ships fuel tanks, already leaking out. There might be a nastier substance in one of those containers, but I doubt it.

I wish there was some simple solution, like unload the cargo, tow the ship off the reef, etc. Unfortunately, unloading a container ship at sea is not the easiest thing to do. Unloading it while it's lying on it's side may be impossible, short of pulling the container stacks over and fishing the containers out of the water.

Pulling the ship clear of the reef would probably pull it apart, and just speed up the disaster in progress.

There's no easy solution here. It's just sad.
 
DeftwillP said:
Spokesman for the shipping company interviews
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Cute,.. Funny,..
Dare I say,..
(Dare,..Dare!..)

Pythonesque?

I got curious.
According to wikipedia, a Skycrane can lift 20k lbs.
A standard 40' intermodal container weighs over 8k lb empty, and can hold up to 57k lb.
Probably not picking many, if any, loaded containers with a helicopter.

The containers are hooked together individually with a twist-lock system, so they could be unlocked and removed one at a time, if the latches would unlock at the angle they're sitting at. Not that it matters much as there's no easy way to pick them up.

Maybe a barge with a crane, if the weather cooperates.
 
Jeeze day one looks pretty calm. I wonder why they didn't drag it off then.


 
Darky said:
This will need to be taken care of. You can't just call insurance and leave it be. If it's stuck on a reef, this is an ecological disaster waiting to happen, especially if somehow one of the containers might explode when contacting water. The reefs are dying worldwide, no way anyone lets this just sit.

Buoy the side that's sinking and try driving/dragging it out. Start making arrangements now for sky cranes. Hell, I bet a CH53 could possibly lift one of these containers.
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The article didn't say it was a CORAL reef, reef can just mean underwater rocks.
 
Imagine how much worse that ship on the reef is flexing, with one end fixed on the reef and the other moving with wave action.
 
n1ywb said:
one was carrying a hazardous substance which can explode on contact with water.
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One container of dangerous goods containing Alkylsuphonic liquid (UN2586), which is water soluble, has been lost from the ship. Reports yesterday that the container held Ferrosilicon were incorrect.
 
DrMoab said:
Wouldn't it be hilarious if the containers were filled with new iPhone 4s's. Can you hear the fanboy outcry?
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Lol



iphone4s-upgrade-for-iphone4-owners-trollface.jpg
 
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