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March, 5th, 2020 : Golden Ray
♫ ...Ray, a drop of golden Sun..
But this Golden Ray is a ship...well, was a ship. Built by Hyundai, 656’ (200m) long, 116’ (35.4 m) wide, to transport 7700 cars with a crew of 23, under a Marshall Islands flag. Last September it was leaving Port of Brunswick, GA, with 4200 cars (none of them Hyundais), bound for Baltimore then on to the Middle East. From the port to the ocean is about a dozen miles along Fancy Bluff Creek which despite the name is a broad shallow bay by Jekyll Island, with a narrow 32’ deep shipping channel cut through it. 23 minutes down the channel in St Simon bay the ship started to list and as it got worse the port pilot wisely steered over the shallows where the Golden Ray would come to rest on it’s side not blocking the channel at 2 AM. ![]() Then smoke from a fire below deck started pouring out. A Coast Chopper and boats evacuated 18 Filipino crew plus the captain and pilot at 4 am, 3 Koreans from the 150F engine room at 3 PM, and the last Korean at 6 PM. They’ve driven piles, put up debris nets, removed 320,000 gallons of ship fuel, and cut off the rudder and props. They’re now in the process of cutting the ship into eight pieces and hauling them away (cars and all), on barges. ![]() Now all that said, in a story about Koreans, Filipinos, and rednecks from GA, English may be a moot point, but it looks to me like the ship is resting on it’s side after rolling 90 degrees. However a sampling of 10 sites shows 7 out of 10, 70% say the ship capsized like a Duck boat. wiki Quote:
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