[Incorrigible]

Well, at least our balance of trade will improve!

;-)

[balch3]

those car and container ships look awfully top heavy to me.

[finnman69]

at least there will be a nice new reef for he fishies

[kingu]

80 degree list? Yeah, that's basically on it's side. Amazing that the ship is still floating at that point, and not taking on water and sinking to the bottom immediately.

[finnman69]

Big, but not as big as the QM2 I was visiting today.

[billhilly]

Could it be that the deadliest catch is a Toyota?

[Investment Biker]

Wow! If those cars are worth a little over $20,000 each then this ship is holding approximately $100 million in cargo. Some poor insurance company is listing also.

[balch3]

I read that years ago a ship loaded with Nikes went down in the North Pacific, and for years afterwards, the shoes would wash up on beaches. Oceanographers were able to learn a lot about ocean currents by charting where they turned up.

[DustyMoment]

It's now tilted at about an 80-degree angle to the water, with a Coast Guard official describing it as basically on its side.

Yeah. it doesn't sound like it's going to make port. Prayers for the crew. Those are cold waters up there and hypothermia and death set in quickly if they end up in the drink.

[razorback-bert]

COUGAR ACE UPDATE AND CORRECTION

JUNEAU, Alaska - The Singapore flagged vessel Cougar Ace remains disabled and listing at 90 degrees 230 miles south of the Aleutian Islands.

After deploying several life rafts to the Cougar Ace, the Coast Guard C-130 on scene has returned to Kodiak for fuel.

A Coast Guard rescue helicopter from Air Station Kodiak has been deployed to the scene.

The Alaska Air National Guard have deployed two Pavehawk helicopters accompanied by a
C-130, and two HC-130 aircraft with in-flight refueling capabilities, all carrying parachute deployable rescue teams, from Kulis Air National Guard Base to assist in the rescue operation.

The merchant vessel Ikan Juara remains on scene.

The cause the vessel damage is unknown at this time.