Key inspection people are at fault here.
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.
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
Somebody had not finished ballasting. Free surface in ballast tank(s) flowed to side opposite during turn.
Key inspection people are at fault here.
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.
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.
Prayers for them.
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.