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.
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.
New meaning to “SHIT”
stacked too high
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.
Weather reported by commercial weather routers appear conflicting and best as I could tell seemed to be moderate winds but enormous swells from a distant or dissipated storm. A guess I have as to the root cause is that the Captain maintained the planned, fastest course to Long Beach and took the 50ft swells on the beam causing radical rolls.
Container ships in particular are extremely pressured to maintain planned schedules. Missing a berth appointment can mean a week or three swinging at anchor and add millions of dollars to the ship owner's costs.
Here's the photos:
I can just imagine a Castaway 2 movie except this time the castaway finds a couple of shipping containers full of everything he cannot directly use but somehow does, like pontoons made from thousands of condoms....
Drinking and driving often leads to trouble...
Martin Mull Song.
No reason why we couldn't have make that product right here in the USA.
That's what really irritates me.