Coast Guard makes contact with crew members in stricken cargo ship off Georgia, all confirmed alive

Fox News ^ | September 9, 2019 | Travis Fedschun

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Sounds just like a scene from the movie-—

The Poseidon Adventure (1972) - IMDb

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0069113/

Directed by Ronald Neame. With Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons. Nine people explore a cruise ship at sea in a manner that turns their whole lives upside down.

[freefdny]

Great job. Go get them Coast Guard.

[George from New England]

This incident will affect cruise ship concerns too.

[billorites]

If I see any irresistible deals on new Hyundais in the mid-Alantic region...
I'm gonna pass.

[jazusamo]

Yep, I remember that movie way back when it came out.

[Red Badger]

Very clean hull...................

[New Perspective]

It will affect almost any large ship if this hull is located in the channel. The shrimpers can get around it just fine.

[JohnBovenmyer]

And within a week of the death of gorgeous Poseidon Adventure co-star Carol Lynley.

[jazusamo]

MAGA!

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[SGCOS]

Crap! my new Adidas sweat pants were on that ship!

[Red Badger]

You must wear a very large size...........................

[elcid1970]

How in the h#ll does a ship capsize in shallow water!?

That hull looks like the ship could rest upright on sea bottom.

Was the tide in when it capsized? Was it a load shift that made it heel over?

[HighSierra5]

Thank God.

[Red Badger]

Was it a load shift that made it heel over?

I think so..............

[Justa]

My guess would be new silting in the channel from hurricane Dorian forced the captain to lighten the ballast to clear the channel. But the ship’s navagation systems weren’t updated accordingly (lower speed for turning). So a GPS-plot turn at (previously-normal) speed caused a low-ballast keelover.

[chiller]

Thanks for a sensible answer. That port facility is about 5 miles from open ocean, although I don’t know where exactly this occurred. I wonder if new silt deposits
were pushed up the channel, or heavy rains brought silt down toward the ocean. Dorian probably did both.

[Moonman62]

Some say these car hauling ships are top heavy.

Another article I saw hinted that the ship hit a sandbar while passing another ship.

[Sacajaweau]

OMG.....

[livius]

I was up there just a few days before this (doing a Cumberland Island trip) and the Captain said that the sandbars shift. This is monitored but maybe, so soon after Dorian, it wasn’t completely finished moving.