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Thanks for the tech info. I'm not a mariner, but my son is --- he was working on the ARC Resolve a couple years ago.....
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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You mean that was when the ship really hit the sand?
;^)
There’s got to be a morning after....
Thanks for the tech info. I'm not a mariner, but my son is --- he was working on the ARC Resolve a couple years ago.....
Took me a few seconds to get that.
Ha Ha.
REALLY good one!
From the photo, it's obviously laying on the sandbar. To us sailors/mariners, it will be interesting the exact cause for hitting the sandbar.
I've been on more than my fair share of car vessels. It's essentially an eight story floating garage and the draught isn't generally that deep.
FWIW - crew accommodations, 4 Star Luxury compared to any other cargo ship. Not too far behind cruise ships.
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