Coast Guard crews are monitoring several adrift shipping containers 43 miles west of the Straits of Juan de Fuca entrance. An inbound vessel lost approx. 40 containers when the ship listed to its side due to rough seas.

https://twitter.com/USCGPacificNW/status/1451668652567121920 ^ | Oct 22, 2021 | USCGPacificNorthwest @USCGPacificNW

[Enterprise]

Coast Guard crews are monitoring several adrift shipping containers 43 miles west of the Straits of Juan de Fuca entrance. An inbound vessel lost approx. 40 containers when the ship listed to its side due to rough seas.

[Enterprise]

Someone's Christmas presents are floating away.

[Skywise]

NBC Nightly News blamed this on “climate change” causing freak storms...

Really.

[Bob434]

the good news is that it didn’t lisp to the side

[Thrownatbirth]

That’ll put a ding on a transiting TRIDENT submarine hull.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

The Pacific has always been known for its calm waters.

[Don W]

The ship that dropped those containers caught fire this afternoon.

[luckymom]

More on this, it’s gotten even more crazy. https://futurism.com/the-byte/shipping-containers-spontaneous-combustibles?fbclid=IwAR2MeaDfTJ-ANUu3i2_t58wABLogGKm9bXzTj6ElTEL9NvB1K44yUbXFZoE

[mom.mom]

Hope it’s not the cat food containers.

[doorgunner69]

Your Amazon delivery may be delayed....

[mass55th]

Those crates are probably just full of biological specimens, along with vials of virological, and bacteriological samples from the Wuhan Lab in China. What could possibly go wrong?

[Track9]

Particularly the Roaring 40’s.

[yesthatjallen]

Read this first-hand account twitter thread:

"Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned."

Typesfast Twitter

[HollyB]

Oh geez. Smh.

[HollyB]

The ship is currently anchored near Victoria, about 5 miles offshore.

The flames that broke around 11 a.m. Saturday were related to two damaged containers carrying hazardous materials used in mining, class 4.2 of Xanthates (Potassium Amylxanthate).

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kiro7.com/news/local/approx-40-shipping-containers-adrift-off-washington-coast/GLA23HNGLZADTGDQRPRX2AUTG4/%3foutputType=amp

[GOP Poet]

lol. we’re a pragmatic bunch ;D

[Veggie Todd]

Containers float? I’m launching (no pun intended) a great new business model. Fill containers with immigrants. Attach a few outboard motors. Point them to the U.S. shoreline. Release.

[Fresh Wind]

Your shipment of fail has been delayed.

[SE Mom]

Man- it’s a real nightmare at the ports and he has a terrific plan to fix it- exactly why this administration won’t implement it. Great thread- thanks for posting it.

[SteveH]

bookmark - port container bottleneck solution

[FreedomPoster]

The Camp of the Saints updated for the container shipping era.