How can a ship with modern navigational aids sail into the middle of a hurricane?
Rogue wave maybe...
I was asking myself the same thing...
Not how, but why....?
Answer $$$$
I am sure the crew was a bit upset over the captains decision to head into an unpredictable storm.
If they lost power and are as top heavy as these vessels are, the contents of these containers and or the containers may be showing up on the SE Coast soon.
Not how, but why....?
Answer $$$$
I am sure the crew was a bit upset over the captains decision to head into an unpredictable storm.
If they lost power and are as top heavy as these vessels are, the contents of these containers and or the containers may be showing up on the SE Coast soon.
Navigational aids don't help if you have either an idiot captain or a desperate management.
Easy. They used modern diesel engines.........................
As strange as it might seem, modern ships are safer at sea during a hurricane than in port. This is especially true for ships with a large sail area (that means a large area on the sides for the wind to push against).
In port the wind can push against all that surface area and risk snapping the mooring lines. From there the ship becomes a danger to everything else in port. It can ground and block the channel and/or leak fuel into the harbor.
At sea with all watertight hatches dogged down there is little chance of the ship taking on water as long as they stay pointed into the wind and waves.
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As big as that ship is, they probably do it routinely...maybe foolishly, since a failed engine could be a death sentence...but I bet they didn’t go into the hurricane ‘by accident’.
A fully loaded container ship has an extremely high wind profile. During a full force hurricane the side wind forces are up to maximum design parameters. Add full force hurricane winds in addition to severe wave actions, you have a very dangerous situation.
Worse yet, if the top cargo shifts, it’s even worse...and finally if you lose propulsion, it’s TERMINAL.
If this ship doesn’t founder it will be a miracle.
God help all souls on board.
Well on the aircraft Independence in ‘93 or ‘94 it was because the forecasters expected 2 hurricanes to veer approximately 20 degrees north/northeast and so we could shot the gap. Instead one of them turned to the SE and the other to the NW and the entire group (Japanese, Koreans, and US ships)got hammered between the two as they converged.
At least 2 radar masts lost, couple of sonar domes flooded or destroyed, winds were too high to fold the rotor on the safety helo so I watched the front rotor tie down snap and the blade fold back over the body of the helo, water over the flight deck, ah fun days...