Drone Footage Gives New View of ONE Apus Damage (Massive container loss at sea)

gCaptain ^ | December 16, 2020 | Mike Schuler

[Oatka]

Excerpted due to lots of photos.

HERE's the video.

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.

[Track9]

Don’t expect your package to arrive on time.

[BenLurkin]

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.

[blueunicorn6]

“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”

[LukeL]

Even when you know those are forty foot long containers it is hard to get a sense of the scale of the ship.

[Cold Heart]

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.

[Vaquero]

Love the color. The gay merchant marine.

[Vaquero]

I saw that movie. Operation petticoat. Pink submarine.

[Ed Condon]

Looks like the MV Mary Kay.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The Three Degrees. A great 70s hit.

[Magnum44]

Ouch, thats gonna leave a few marks...

[Travis McGee]

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.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

The Hues Corporation.

[Bell Bouy II]

New meaning to “SHIT”
stacked too high

[Travis McGee]

If you are going to hit something made of steel, like a lost cargo container, it helps to be in a steel boat.

[Fury]

This is one of the reasons I built a steel sailboat.

Was the welding tricky with that?

[devane617]

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.

[Bell Bouy II]

years ago sneakers were washing up on Ft Ftld beach forget the incident but it had something to do with containers ?

[Magnum44]

The Titanic was steel...just sayin...lol

[central_va]

Does it float?