Posted on 12/21/2020 12:03:36 PM PST by Oatka
Some new drone footage shot as the ONE Apus was arriving in Japan last week gives us the first aerial view of the extent of damage on the deck of the ship after its historic cargo loss in the Pacific Ocean.
The video was commissioned by W K Webster & Co., a leading global marine and transit claims consultancy.
The owners and managers of the containership estimate that 1,816 containers were lost overboard when the ONE Apus encountered severe weather as it sailed towards Long Beach, California on November 30.
The number of containers damaged but remaining on deck is yet to be determined, but these images (and what we’ve seen already) show that the number is likely to be significant.
“It can be seen that there are 22 bays on deck of which 16 have collapsed to both port and starboard, leaving only 6 intact / partially intact. With 20 rows of containers per bay and with stack heights of between 6 and 8 containers, we anticipate that approximately 2,250 containers have been lost or damaged. It will also be noted that the very vast majority appear to be 40 foot units and therefore equivalent to approximately 4,500 TEU,” said a spokesperson for W K Webster.
To put this in perspective, ONE Apus has a capacity of a little more than 14,000 TEU, or twenty-foot equivalent units, so if 4,500 TEU were lost or damaged, it means that more than a third of the ship’s entire cargo could be impacted by this incident.
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Gotta be lots of hazardous warnings out - especially for small craft.
Some years back we had a hurricane hit the Navarre, FL area and the waves washed some dumpsters into the bay. Small craft were hitting them (low in the water) and getting their bottoms torn out.
Don’t expect your package to arrive on time.
Glad the ship and crew made it to port safely.
Speaking of safety — that hull color has got to be easy to pick out from a distance.
“Rock the boat
Don’t rock the boat baby
Rock the boat
Don’t tip the boat over
Rock the boat
Don’t rock the boat baby
Rock the boooooat”
Even when you know those are forty foot long containers it is hard to get a sense of the scale of the ship.
I had made a comment to the person who sent me the article right after the incident happened. I said the cause of the mishap was due to the color of the hull. He came back and told me I was actually more correct than I thought.
There was a lot of corner cutting on an already cheap design and they ran out of money. Instead of the hull being red, they had to mix some cheaper white paint with the red.
Love the color. The gay merchant marine.
I saw that movie. Operation petticoat. Pink submarine.
Looks like the MV Mary Kay.
The Three Degrees. A great 70s hit.
A lot of stell cargo containers have merchandise packed in boxes, protected by foam. They won’t sink.
Other containers hold many thousand sneakers, unsinkable rubber.
These containers may float for months or years, nearly level with the ocean, unseen in any kind of chop or waves.
This is one of the reasons I built a steel sailboat.
The Hues Corporation.
New meaning to “SHIT”
stacked too high
Was the welding tricky with that?
Over here in the Panama City Bay Area there is still on occasion floating debris that rips up boats. All from hurricane Michael. Most of the sunken boats have been removed but I hear there are still a few just under the surface that could cause problems.
years ago sneakers were washing up on Ft Ftld beach forget the incident but it had something to do with containers ?
The Titanic was steel...just sayin...lol
Does it float?
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