Go to the URL for vid link.
SitNews also has an article with photos.
Posted on 07/25/2006 9:24:34 AM PDT by skeptoid
NORTH PACIFIC: All 23 people aboard the listing Cougar Ace were retrieved by helicopters.
By LISA DEMER Anchorage Daily News
Published: July 25, 2006 Last Modified: July 25, 2006 at 02:24 AM
Nearly two dozen crew members were hoisted to safety in rescue helicopters late Monday night from a giant car-carrying ship that had listed onto its side in the North Pacific Ocean, according to the Alaska Air National Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Don't you just hate it when you forget to set the parking brake.
any idea if they anchor the cars down while they are on board?
The answer is "no"...and that's why the boat is listing as badly as it is. All the cars have fallen to one side, and now Davy Jones is about to get a bunch of brand-new Japanese cars.
4,813 parking brakes!
Four-thousand-eight-hundred vehicles at the bottom of the Pacific. Who's gonna do the Environmental Impact Report?
Don't know. I kind of doubt it.
I hope they used of peanuts and bubble wrap!
OK, my question is if the people in Beiruit have to pay for their rescue, will the Coast Guard bill the owner of the ship for this one?
RICHMOND, BC (May 4, 2005) – Fraser Wharves Ltd. set a new record at Fraser River Port for the greatest number of vehicles discharged from a single ship, when M.V. COUGAR ACE delivered 5,214 automobiles on May 4, 2005. The cars – a mixture of new Mazda, Toyota, Lexus, and Mitsubishi automobiles destined for the Canadian marketplace – arrived aboard one of MOL's Pure Car Carriers, M.V. COUGAR ACE.
M.V. COUGAR ACE was launched June 29, 1993. The ship has an overall length 199.53 meters and a gross registered tonnage of 55,328 tonnes.
I would think that would be the case because of a ship tossed sea would ding alot of cars together.
Gottagodawerk.
click thru for another pic
Thanks for the picture. I heard about this yesterday and I could not imagine a 90 degree list.
All the more reason to buy Deeetroit iron. Got 3 tons of it sitting in the parking lot. "Like a rock"
Imported Japanese cars have tiedowns built in to the frame. They won't be going anywhere except wherever the ship goes. The tiedowns may come in handy later when the vehicle needs a tow or needs to tow something else.
So, we can dump 5,000 cars off the coast of Alaska, but we can't drill in ANWAR?
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