A Couple of Casualties

[Guest]

I was looking through a couple of vessel casulaty pictures and I thought I would share them with you:

1) The first one is another example of how delicate containers can prove to be in a heavy sea. Even locked and tied together the fastenings can fail when the ship sis being thrown about.

2) The next three shots are of a container ship that blacked out then ran aground. When the tide went out she broke her back, as can be seen in the first and second pictures, and she had to be sealed up and cut in two for repairs to be made.

3) The next one is another example of what can happen to your containers in heavy weather if you don't support them effectively.

4) Finally this yacht had an argument with a trawler, and lost!

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[wonwinglo]

Interesting pictures to learn something from from Richard,you dont realise the forces involved until you see images like this.

Thank you for sharing them with us.

[Guest]

Barry, I have been inside the foc's'le of the QE2 and seen vertical steel pillars of a foot square section bent in two by the weight of water. During that same wave action an accomodation ladder was removed and washed away!!

Natural water can be unbeleivably powerfull. I once had a dislocated shoulder to attest to that!!

[Guest]

we once had a 40 ft shipping container washed overboard in the north sea in a patch of rough weather.....off a mearsk ship

we had bits of LEGO and duplo washed up on kent and essesx coast, some even made it round to the cornish coast, it was being washed up for several years...... it was even in the local rag !

[Guest]

Following the theme of container storage arrangements I thought you may find this interesting.

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[Guest]

In about 50 years time thats Dover.

Global warming, Global emergency!

[wonwinglo]

Oh Dear !

[Guest]

What ever happened to that crate of rubber ducks that was washed overboard last year? Last I heard there was a flotilla of rubber ducks riding the waves.