Cargo ship grounded off New Zealand
 

I've been hearing progressively scarier reports of this event. What's it like locally I wonder?
Shit!

I don't know what's wrong with captains of ships around Australia and NZ. It's really starting to piss me off personally.

We have friends that live in that area and fish off that reef and now it's being destroyed.

They must have got their licences out of cornflake packets!

OK Jim, I want you to go up there and tie off that top box...

:eek:

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I can't remember the details, but that ship was "detained" before leaving port in Australia, and then again in New Zealand, for poor maintenance/ safety issues.

Owners skip on maintenance, skippers try short cuts, shit happens. Thus it has ever been.

Tragedy makes some beautiful photographs. Interesting to compare with the BP oil spill last year, a much trickier catastrophe to convey in a single image.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...reline/100169/

Neat link... exellent photography... several different sub-stories

Well, the curfew didn't work...

Amazing photos, but we've seen it all before haven't we?

The requirements to register a ship in Liberia are only slightly less stringent then registering a handgun in Alabama.

Once again, multinational corporations get to play governments off against each other. Grrr.

What is the new news on this accident folks? Please?

The cargo ship is now allowed to have friends over after school and can make and receive phone calls before 5:30pm. It still cannot go to the mall or hang out after soccer practice and must complete all its homework before it can watch South Park.

For the win.

Recent story here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-0...eak-up/3614678

It's still there, but only just:

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The Bay of Plenty is (was) one of the most beautiful places in New Zealand. :(

Why aren't they unloading it?

Maybe because of Stormieweather.

:notworthy

:lol:


Well, that is actually true, the efforts to pump out the fuel oil have been hampered by 5 metre swells.
Also ... look at those containers! How can they get them off? It's a precision job with a huge-ass land-based crane even when the ship of upright next to a dock in nice still water with the containers properly upright. Refloating is probably impossible because of the structural damage to the ship, she'll probably break up. It is a grade one SNAFU. The ship is FUBAR.

by The Associated Press
NPR
1/8/12
Grounded Cargo Ship Splits On New Zealand Reef
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More pics

You reckon they still enforce that no smoking rule?

I'm pretty sure they got all of the fuel oil off that ship. i'd be surprised if an oil spill was the major concern for those in the know. I suspect they'll be more concerned about multiple submerged containers getting into the shipping lanes and causing problems.

Shipping containers often float, right? Okay, for a time. Depending.

I'm not sure what was in these sacks from a split open container from this ship. At first I thought concrete, but surely they would sink. Even wheat flour is pretty heavy in a sack. What is light and fluffy, but doesn't form a scum on the surface of the water and instead sinks and mixes with the water?
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COCAINE!

how about lactose ? for coke dilution ?

That looks to me like it's bubbling. Maybe bi carb soda or some other chemical that'd react with salt water.

Gawd, I'm getting slow:

That's so funny Zen. We first saw that one a couple of years ago. We still crack jokes about it, like when we see some dickhead on a jetski hit the mudflats - he's beached as bro. We'd ask him if he wanted a chup bro, but maybe he only eats plenktun? lol

Thut shup is beached uz, bro.