Where is Gulliver,? i,m sure all would welcome him back, his input always gave a laugh, give him my regards, kt
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Where is Gulliver,? i,m sure all would welcome him back, his input always gave a laugh, give him my regards, kt
Ignorance never fails to amaze, super tanker, dredging tugs, 1800 containers, 50,000 tonne boat, and the latest today from a geographical expert, whilst showing a picture of the Cape of Good Hope, the caption reads, a swarm of ships are going around Cape Horn to reach Asia, ain't edification wunder ful!! :violent1:
ITV news just , Mary Nightingale , at long last the Tanker is free, this is while showing the video of the Ever Given under way. Hopefully when the convoys are sorting themselves into orderly fashion we will not have any collisions, we all have been there and it is wacky races time , especially when clearing the canal.
#125... Its always been there Ivan especially ashore, used to be the saying he doesn’t know his ass from his elbow. The maritime version. Is now he doesn’t know his bow from his stern. Can just imagine a ship taking the wrong route from England to W.A . Going round the bottom of the wrong continent and running out of petrol. Being diesel driven would cost a fortune. JS.
She is now free and moving up the canal.
But she has brought out the good and bad in many of the media section.
Very good one today from our version of the Guardian.
'The canal is not of great importance to world trade as most ships could go round the Cape without much extra cost'
These are supposed well read writers, most I think are just red.
Of course Victoria the first ones there will be the assessors , insurance and otherwise , she will be assessed by whatever authority she comes under for seaworthiness for a start , usually would be Lloyd’s or the Bureau Veritis or whatever they have as a ruling authority. There maybe also crew changes as some may have to be left behind if she does sail , for any hearings that may be necessary. There will be some highly nervous people there no doubt.It might be over for the observers ,but just the start for some. JS
I would say a team of divers will be high on the list. Many lessons to be learnt here. Just looking at the AIS track immediately prior to the stranding is an education. Too fast for starters and a huge lack of understanding of "bank effect" on the part of both the Suez pilots and the master. The awareness of this feature has clearly not grown in keeping with ship size. The wind effect was the least of the worries. It appears that as soon as the pilots set foot on board the master immediately shoved the speed up too far. Probably under commercial pressure from the management. The pilots should have reduced it. A vessel that size, almost fully loaded doing 13kts in the canal at that narrow point was ludicrous. Pilots and masters on these vessels around the world will need to sit back and think.
#128 They the reporters live in a world of their own, it comprises expense accounts , travel expenses, picking someone’s brains to come up with a plausible story, so as to get a bonus from their editor and put them on the path for winning journalist of the year , if not discovered as a fraud beforehand. This has been one small incident of a ship going aground and look at the furore it has caused worldwide . If anyone thinks what the media has produced is good journalism and not pure sensationalism .Then I am out of turn. JS
The speed she was travelling at would be dictated by her convoy number, she may have lost time due to pilot change over? But if she was doing 13 knots that certainly seems to be way over the top. If memory serves I think the distance between vessels to be maintained is .5 of a mile. One thing I would say is I suspect there will be a vacancy for a ships master with the Ever Green shipping company. Maybe a few on here could dust off the old Master Mariners Certificate. Still it is good to see the Super Tanker, Big boat thingy with the Lego bricks moving again. No doubt she be inspected by divers but I would say she will also be heading for dry dock after discharge for repairs. The next generation of box boats are planned to be 30,000 TEU so the Ever Given will just be a big coaster in a year or two.
https://www.businesstelegraph.co.uk/...look-like-toy/