Ship grounding

[Trevor Bodiam]

Found this story on BBC news today.
Spotted a glaring mistake and wondered how these mistakes get past editing?


An oil tanker became wedged on a shingles bank off the Isle of Wight after running aground.
The Liberian registered Chem Alya ran aground off The Needles shortly after leaving Fawley en route to Eygpt on Monday at about 16:20 BST.
It has been anchored off the island, since being refloated at high water overnight.

[Keith Tindell]

The shingles is a well buoyed channel, and can be a dangerous bank in bad weather. The attached is an actual video of her going aground, she seems to be well over on her starboard side of the channel


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oQ9_GbtN5g

[happy daze john in oz]

Would she, or should she have had a pilot on board at this point?

I would have thought if one on board this would not happen.

[j.sabourn]

The one collision I was ever involved in , we had 2 pilots on board , a pilot is only there for advice , unless a port under naval control or otherwise stated. If she had been going or coming out of Portsmouth she would of had a QHM pilot on board and may of had different repercussions on liability. JS

[Keith Tindell]

I don't recall ever seeing a pilot boat at the needles, but i could be wrong. Its mainly small shipping that leaves the Solent by the Western route, but i have seen the QE2 leave via that route on one occasion. With the movie you can plainly see the disturbed white water on his starboard side, and he looked very close to it.

[John Arton]

Sailing loaded from Cawley, if bound for Irish ports or the canal , I would go out through the needles channel, dropping the pilot off at the pilot station in the vicinity of queen Victoria's house.
Easy well marked channel but tidal currents run across it so you need to keep a close eye on track over the ground.
Nearly came a cropped once when just after passing the needles we encountered the finish of the round the world yacht race, all under sail.
Rgds
J.A.

[Graham Shaw]

Nearly came a cropper once when just after passing the needles we encountered the finish of the round the world yacht race, all under sail.
Rgds
J.A.

Sod's Law ! Just what you don't need!.
A lot of buttock-clenching and running around in the wheelhouse I bet!

[Trevor Bodiam]

My original thread starter was about the spelling mistake quoted below.
It was posted on the BBC news website.

ran aground off The Needles shortly after leaving Fawley en route to Eygpt ???????

[Ivan Cloherty]

Alas Trevor we missed the obvious, there are so many spelling mistakes in the Press / Media you could make a career out of correcting them, one I saw the other day from a shipping correspondent, 'she was a black hauled vessel' instead of black hulled, bet the correspondent thought he was real smart with his nautical word.

[happy daze john in oz]

Pilots there for advice only except in the Panama Canal where I understand they take total control.
Right?????