It'll put your eye out!

Two other examples was that car carrier from Japan that sunk, releasing floating Hondas in the Pacific. And another car carrier that littered the waters off Europe with Volvos, BMWs, and Mercedes. To some, it's only an insurance claim.

The ship that sank in the English channel was the Tricolor. The company hired to recover the cars so that they can be destroyed (liability issues if those salted parts got on the market) put up a web site showing how the ship was recovered. This page shows pictures from the "cutting" portion of the task.
http://www.tricolorsalvage.com/pages...sp?f=02Cutting

Here's a cross-section that includes the engine compartment. http://www.tricolorsalvage.com/image...ting_5_med.jpg

Basically they saw the ship into sections with a steel cable and then lift them up. Neat!

This page has a neat animation of how the process worked.
http://www.tricolorsalvage.com/pages/infographic.asp

We ended up with alot of those plastic bath toys (rubber duckies, etc) back in '92. We actually find a bunch of really weird stuff washed up on our outer shores.

In case anyone is interested, the ship in question was the "P&O Nedlloyd Mondriaan".

Here you go.

Heh - Reading the article on the rubber ducks, it's obvious the reporter doesn't know the difference between Flotsam and Jetsam. If it FALLS overboard, it's NOT Jetsam - Jetsam is THROWN overboard to lighten your load - aka it's intentional

Flotsam is the stuff that floats after you (or parts of your cargo) sinks - so the ducks are definately flotsam

Don't know of the word for stuff that falls overboard and sinks

Hey, if any of those wash up near the cliffs in England, would it be "Dover sole"?

Just asking...

Chris

Just great. Now all of The Netherlands smells like feet :vomit:

So

Sea shares shoes by the shoe shore?

Ballast.

I thought ballast was used for balance and stabilization...

things thrown overboard?? ~ litter. :right:

And when you chuck it overboard, it sinks.

I think that would be jetsam of which you speak. Flotsam being the same stuff which has yet to make it to shore. jetsam<––jetson<––jettison.

Aaaaaagh! :eek: