Does any one know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? - Gordon Lightfoot
Was Ray Nagin the captain, by any chance?
Because if the ship hadn’t lost its engines the storm wouldn’t have been a problem.
Coast Guard holding a press conference tomorrow at 10 AM eastern time.
Why are they linking this to the Bermuda triangle? Hmm...was it a paranormal anomaly, or a big hurricane...?
It looks sad... and bad. The course shown in the article was set directly into the storm’s path.
Weird the news I forgot whether it was CNN stated that it traveled where near the area of the Bermuda Triangle is.
there are known ways to try to (try to) out run hurricanes in sail boats. depending on where you are in relation to it. fastest point of sail in a modern sloop rig is beam reach. just rethinking this at the north of it you are heading east and south. south of it east and north. mostly east as any wind can carry you.
First I herd this story I thought the same thing the wife did.
You tube song of Gordon Lightfoot: the wreck of Edmond Fitsgerald.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
Years ago, Charles Berlitz wrote a book on ships and planes lost in the Bermuda Triangle. This was reproduced in the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and one day when I had nothing to do I pinpointed all the ships and planes lost.
Only about five were lost in the Triangle. All the others were well outside.
Berlitz even tried to claim that Coach Robert E Rein of Louisiana State had his plane drawn into the “Triangle” by unknown forces.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=19800111&id=hW0iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=r6wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5532,979842&hl=en
My assumption is that they were hoping to get through it the quickest by going in the opposite path of the hurricane along its edge so it passes by them with minimum of trouble.
Was Dexter at the helm?
Me thinks the ship’s owners wanted an insurance payout for a shiny new cargo ship. Gotta get the ship sunk first, with little evidence revealing the plot.
I can say as an eyewitness to the fact that everytime (6X) we sailed (Navy ship) through the Bermuda triangle that our steering would just flat stop working and our gyrocompass would just spin in circles. Definately something going on out there.
My father, a graduate of the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point and a former Merchant Marine navigator and deck officer, wonders why they did not head south along the Florida coast immediately after leaving Jacksonville. That would have better assured the safety of the ship and crew.
Easy to see how the container ship could go under with no power in a Cat 4.
I served on CVA-42 (FDR) in early ‘60s. We were in home port at Mayport FL when hurricane Donna headed our way. We had to go to sea, as the winds and tides would have damaged the ship and the docks.
We went right through the hurricane with our skeleton crew. Many were ashore when the decision was made and, of course, the squadrons were at NAS JAX.
My berthing compartment was just below the flight deck, so about 50’ above water level. Lots of motion, so we had to use lines to tie ourselves onto the canvas and thin mattress racks we slept on. ....Mess hall only served crackers, water and black coffee because of sea sickness due to motion.
After we were through the hurricane, we found forward officers’ quarters with about 2’ of water. Railings along catwalks beside the flight deck were bent up over the catwalks from the force of the waves hitting more than 60’ above the water.
We remained at sea for a couple of days before returning to Mayport for a lot of repairs and maintenance.
I’m a frequent viewer of Deadliest Catch. Those boats occassionally get hit with storms that are near hurricane in wind speed....and those boats are much smaller than a container ship. I wouldn’t be surprised if running right through bad weather was fairly routine on thise big ships.