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4 Crew Members Still Missing After Cargo Ship Overturns Near Georgia Port
NPR ^ | 09/08/2019 | Brakkton Booker

Posted on 09/08/2019 3:37:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Rescue crews are searching for four crew members of a cargo ship that overturned in the early hours of Sunday morning off the coast of Brunswick, Ga., approximately 80 miles south of Savannah.

There were 23 crew members and a pilot aboard the Golden Ray when the 656-foot carrier became disabled in St. Simons Sound, according to the Coast Guard.

Twenty people on the vessel were rescued.

Capt. John Reed, Commander of Coast Guard Sector Charleston, told reporters at a Sunday afternoon press conference that several people were rescued from the vessel "at multiple points." Then rescue operations were suspended due to safety concerns related to a fire on the ship.

"As smoke and flames began to appear our crews ... assessed the situation was too risky to further go inside the vessel to attempt to locate the four individuals who remain missing at this time," Reed said.

Coast Guard officials said rescue missions will resume once it's safe to do so.

"Once salvage professionals have determined the vessel to be stable, we will identify the best option to continue our rescue efforts for the four crew members who remain onboard," Reed said.

At about 2 a.m. Sunday, Coast Guard officials in Charleston were notified a ship was disabled and "listing heavy" to its port side as it was about to make a turn to depart the harbor.

Officials are still working to determine the cause of the incident, and say an emergency safety zone has been established in St. Simons Sound. Other ships are not permitted within a half mile of the Golden Ray, according to a Coast Guard media advisory.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the ship is on its side and visible from the pier on St. Simons Island.

There do not appear to be any environmental hazards with the cargo vessel being on its side in water, according to Cmdr. Norm Witt, who oversees the Coast Guard's Marine Safety Unit Savannah.

"Currently, I would say there is no active release of pollution," Witt told reporters.

As a precaution, though, Witt said pollution mitigation strategies have been activated.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: cargoship; georgia
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To: BenLurkin

We left out of Golden Isles marina st simons a week ago Thursday. That is a treacherous bit of channel out there. At one point in the channel its 40ft. but outside the the channel, its 2ft at low water. It’s a wall of mud there. One slip and you are over.


21 posted on 09/08/2019 6:56:01 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: miele man
4200 vehicles
22 posted on 09/08/2019 6:58:43 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: BenLurkin

“Sounds about right, actually. And there is (probably) no way it was headed from the US to Korea.”

Agree, the Koreans would have to get their heads examined if they were considering UAW-built cars.


23 posted on 09/08/2019 9:24:20 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: BenLurkin

Prayers for them.


24 posted on 09/08/2019 9:26:12 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: rockinqsranch

They don’t call them “ roll on/ roll overs” for nothing, one of these ends up like that every couple of years.


25 posted on 09/08/2019 9:28:09 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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To: tcrlaf

Watching them coming and going through Ambrose Channel, it always amazed me how car carriers were able to maintain stability.


26 posted on 09/09/2019 6:37:33 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: miele man

That port is a major terminal for importing cars into the US.


27 posted on 09/09/2019 6:43:44 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: BenLurkin

The coast guard got the remaining crew off. That’s a relief. With the fire onboard, I was worried that they were goners. I’m sure the families had a bad time with that, too.


28 posted on 09/09/2019 8:21:32 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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