HAPAG-LLOYD Large Container ship Hoechst Express
(photo here:
http://www.shipphotos.co.uk/pages/hoechstexpress.htm)
is coming up behind the storm and reporting as of 4 hours ago:
Wind from 170 at 35 knots
Waves 4.0 meters (13 feet), 4 second period
Barometer 1006.0 mb
Air temperature 29.0 ° C
Dewpoint 26.0 ° C
Water temperature 29.0 ° C
This storm is about to cut just south of an area saturated with buoys!!
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml
How many of those are new ones like the SS Minnow (42059), which took a lickin' and kept on tickin', versus old ones like all those that failed in 2005?