Posted on 09/09/2019 9:19:25 AM PDT by jazusamo
Rescuers made contact Monday with four crew members stuck inside a South Korea-owned cargo ship that overturned and caught fire near a major port in Georgia over the weekend, said the U.S. Coast Guard, adding that officials are working to free the quartet from the massive vessel,
The Golden Ray, a 656-foot vehicle carrier, listed "heavily" and then rolled over on its side early Sunday in St. Simons Sound near Brunswick, Ga., according to the Coast Guard.
Rescuers drilled a hole overnight through the ship's hull and made contact with the four crew members, who had been listed as missing.
"Extraction being planned," the Coast Guard tweeted.
In the hours before the Coast Guard announced all crew members were alive, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said that the four crew members were in the engine room of the overturned cargo ship and were stuck in the shipping channel awaiting help from a rescue team.
On Sunday, Coast Guard Capt. John Reed said 20 people were safely evacuated from the ship before rescuers determined the smoke and flames and unstable cargo made it "too risky" to venture further inside. Reed said the fire was observed off the ship's starboard side and produced black smoke.
The foreign ministry's statement also said the fire that prevented a rescue attempt is now extinguished.
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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.
Great job. Go get them Coast Guard.
This incident will affect cruise ship concerns too.
Yep, I remember that movie way back when it came out.
Very clean hull...................
It will affect almost any large ship if this hull is located in the channel. The shrimpers can get around it just fine.
And within a week of the death of gorgeous Poseidon Adventure co-star Carol Lynley.
Lets keep this FReepathon moving and git 'er done, Folks!
Crap! my new Adidas sweat pants were on that ship!
You must wear a very large size...........................
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?
Thank God.
I think so..............
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.
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.
Some say these car hauling ships are top heavy.
Another article I saw hinted that the ship hit a sandbar while passing another ship.
OMG.....
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 wasnt completely finished moving.
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