Key inspection people are at fault here.
Posted on 09/08/2019 3:37:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Something sounds fishy about this story. The concern is about pollution but no interest in what caused it to list?
Terrible. I was just in that area yesterday. It gets an incredible amount of shipping and it’s truly sad to see something like this.
How un-PC of you! Don’t you know that the most important thing is not loss of human lives but potential impact on the sea turtles?
Korean Broadcasting Station,KBS, in Seoul, Korea, said 4,000* new vehicles were aboard. I’ve no idea if this is an accurate number or if the ship was destined for Korea or coming to the US from South Korea. This was on the KBS broadcast at 4pm CST.
* I have a hard time believing this number
Sounds about right, actually. And there is (probably) no way it was headed from the US to Korea.
Somebody had not finished ballasting. Free surface in ballast tank(s) flowed to side opposite during turn.
Or forgot to ballast.
NPR would be overly environmentally focused IMO. I see at gcaptain the vessel is in calm seas laid over to port. Seems to me an indication they were shifting ballast, and something failed. Apparently when they went over to port something broke loose inside the hold that then started the fire.
Just a guess.
We have a Kia plant several miles from here in West Point, GA. It’s the size of a small city. I’ve seen a literal sea of tens of thousands of new cars parked there, waiting to be shipped. Likewise with a Hyundai plant about a hundred miles to the southeast. And, the closest water ports to ship them would be right along the Georgia coast. If any came from there, we’ll know about it here in pretty short order. Moving them in bulk regionally would make a more sense than trying to move all of them overland by rigs, eight or ten at a time, not to mention getting them to international markets.
Key inspection people are at fault here.
Is that the ships bridge across the bow?
Looks like her bow-lines go thru those lower openings--but the bridge has a very low profile on the main deck.
That makes more sense. Thanks.
I was about to post this. Hope they’re OK.
A cargo ship caught fire and overturned in the St. Simons Sound off Brunswick, Ga, Sept. 8, 2019.
VCG, it’s a bitch
Thank you. I should have thought of this since I live not all that far from West Point and Montgomery.
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