Container at sea ??

[seabug]

Story goes that years back a boat out of Apollo Bay come across a floating container.

They thought they would salvage it
Hitched a rope on and started to tow to shore.

All went well untill the container suddenly sank.
Hasty bit of work with a knife saved them being pulled under stern first.

Seems a risky thing to try.

Regards
Seabug

[Streetkid]

Some of the blokes on those container ships must seriously fill their undies sometimes.

[catchy_fishy]

wow, so it must be true. Afraid I'll be worried forever

[Hoges]

These 60 lost or severely damaged 40 fooot containers were laden with everything from computers to tennis shoes -- each container with a value ranging from some US$20,000 up to the US$Millions! This loss/damage to 60, 40ft containers has yet to be calculated -- but expect a BIG number, with each container coming fully equipped with it's own maritime lawyer -- to plead the issue of whether either "fault" or "a peril of the sea" is to blame!



It is estimated that over 10,000 ocean containers are lost each year over the side in the world ocean trades -- the result of high seas perils, improper stow, fire & even pirates.

The yearly financial loss due to ocean shipping container misfortune has not been calculated -- but the estimates are staggering -- in the US$ Billions.

Read more here...
http://www.cargolaw.com/2004nightmare_unstacked.html

[Steve_Monckton]

G'day. About 15 years back we were fishing 6-7km out from Crowdy Head near Harrington central coast NSW and came across one corner of a steel shipping container sticking up out of the water by approx. 50cm. Reported it to the coast guard and tied a white foam bouy to it. I Did not have GPS back then so I could only give an approx. position by land marks. Any boat that hit one of these things would suffer severe damage. I'm not sure what happened to the container as I left the next day to drive 8 hours home.

[eugah]

They are not just lost off the ship, a captain has the right to push any cargo off the ship if he feels it is causing danger to the ship. I have heard of hundreds being pushed off a ship during a cyclone to make it safe by lowering the centre of gravity.


Adrian

[blaze]

they would have to be a scarey thought in the back of your mind around places where theres a lot of shipping when doing a night time run.
What about all you guys that head out to the banks and simular places, Do you always run with lights or just hope.
cheers
blaze

[Biff]

Just remember guys If you see something floating in the water that could do some damage #Don't just drive pass it and think lucky we miss that. #If you carn't get it out your self at lease call the coast gaurd to put out a all stations warning. #Just tell them #GPS position and the drift bearing it is going.

The coast gaurd will be only to happy to investigate and if they can get rid of the danger. #I saw a big tree in the water off the cold coast once and called them up they went out to tow the tree back in, I don't know how they went because this was a big tree.

# # # # # # # # # # #Gota love the coast gaurd and VMR #
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #Biff