Containers lost overboard

[Keith Tindell]

I have no knowledge of container stowage etc, but when the Aolian Sky beached in Dorset some years back, we had containers float away and come ashore on the IOW, to a degree it must be dependent on the container contents as to whether they sink or not. One that springs to mind was full of Agriculture back spray containers, this allowed the container to be buoyant , and this was about 2ft freeboard, absolutely lethal with a ship travelling at 15knts i should think, in that particular case we had to anchor it to the shore to stop it going out again on the next tide, kt

[Keith at Tregenna]

ONE Apus Arrives in Kobe, Revealing Cargo Loss of Epic Proportions

The containership ONE Apus arrived at the Port of Kobe, Japan on Tuesday after its eight-day trek from the middle of Pacific Ocean where it lost nearly 2,000 containers during a storm.

https://gcaptain.com/one-apus-arrive...5z4QQnuzAY92HA

[happy daze john in oz]

#19.. For a chinaman in 1976 to have a private motor car John was unthinkable , Shanghai was a city of bicycles , I can still heat their bells all going at the same time. So if motor cars have replaced the bicycle , then they must have had a mind change in their government to allow the imperial westerners mode of luxury travel to implode on their world. Fings ain’t wot they used ter be. But then again in 1976 it was rare to see the average Englishman owning his own motor. It was 1967 I bought our first second hand car and only because I earned the money outside the UK. My parents never had a phone in the house until about 1990 and then my bro. Living at home put it in , for his own benefit . England was never a lap of luxury style when I lived there, it might be now but it is not so long back where most had to struggle, and now they want to give it all away to the poor in other society’s. JS

Most of the cars driven there built under license.
BMW, VW, Audi and a few others
Not sure of the quality but they do look good.

[j.sabourn]

I picked up a seismic cable adrift off NW Australia about 25 years ago it was a hazard to navigation . It was over a mile of electronic cable wth attached floats every 10 feet or so. The trouble I had for someone ashore to accept it had me thinking any future occurrences of finding such I would turn a blind eye to. Sometimes trying to do the correct thing just brings a lot of hassle.
Unpleasant as it may sound I would not pick up a boatload of illegal immigrants I would report them in and if necessary stand by until a government vessel arrived if it ever did , but would not take the chance of being in a position of being landed with a bunch of undesirables and unable to get rid of.
The instructions from Canberra is to report any suspected illegals , and it would be attended to.
This happened when I was shifting a rig up in the java sea , it was a weekend. The message back from Coastwatch was a recorded one this office is closed until 0900 hrs. Monday morning. Sometimes you can’t win. No doubt those 2 boatloads of illegals are by now well assimilated into the Northern Territory Culture. JS

[vic mcclymont]

Over 200 containers have swept overboard in the North Sea, the containers are from Mearsk Munich.
Seems to be happening quite reqularly now.
Vic

[happy daze john in oz]

Yes John, since Abbot was in office as PM there have been no such boats arrive.
Pity the UK and some other countries did not take similar action.

[Ivan Cloherty]

'ONE OPUS' the vessel which lost circa 1900 containers and has a multitude of askew and damaged containers is berthed in Kobe and Port Authorities say it will take at least a month to discharge the vessel due to the precarious positions of the deck containers. I think the economies of scale have just taken a step back