Container ship breaks in half and sinks

[Tony Wilding]

a fully loaded Container Ship the MOL Comfort, broke in half and sank off Yemen, all crew saved, only 5 years old built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries japan courtesy of GCaptain.. MOL COMFORT.jpg

[happy daze john in oz]

Thye just don't build them the way they used to. But thankfully no loss of life.

[Tony Wilding]

latest update from gcaptain, both halves still afloat FWD HALF.jpgSTERN HALF.jpg Salvage Job now,

[Ivan Cloherty]

Now there is a ship totally mis-named. On that first photo (#1) looks a long way down to those liferafts alongside.

Designed by computers, models tested in simulation tanks, the REAL sea is different and cannot be replicated by any computer/tank etc, nature throws that odd wobbly at you now and again testing nature against mans seemingly best efforts

[Chris Allman]

Ivan, somebody has most probably done their sums wrong and stuck the decimal point where it should not be stuck, either that or cheap steel has been used.

[Tony Wilding]

i thought mitsubishi heavy industries were one of the better builders, ? Maybe if they can get both halves to port the reason for breaking will become clear. Too much hogging and sagging takes its toll, dont know if the new maersk giant ones have the same problem,

[Ivan Cloherty]

i thought mitsubishi heavy industries were one of the better builders, ? Maybe if they can get both halves to port the reason for breaking will become clear. Too much hogging and sagging takes its toll, dont know if the new maersk giant ones have the same problem,

There will be a lot of emails getting deleted in various offices, as well as internal memos and calculations getting shredded and computer hard drives being cleansed! and even some taking early retirement. Suppose a bit of Hari Kari is out of the question these days.

[Captain Kong]

I guess it had to happem.
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Disasters come in Threes.
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First the Liverpool Yellow Dukw. then the Filipino Ferry, Now this Container ship.
So its plain safe sailing from now on.
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Or is it.?
Brian.

[Tony Wilding]

re the cebu ferry that sank, just found out the newspapers showed the wrong ferry, so my photo is incorrect, the one that sank was the LADY OF CARMEL, not our OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL, so i was given a bum steer, sorry but not my fault, apparently she was a lot smaller.

[Tony Wilding]

latest news of the mol comfort is the qwners have ordered tugs, some containers have been lost, from where the break occurred, more work for the salvage companies, i wonder where the nearest salvage tugs are, ? Would think 4 at least needed, ship was 84000 tons.