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

A Hyundai Glovis executive told the news media that "there was some kind of an internal fire that could not be controlled and then it [COLOR="Red"]capsized[/COLOR]"

Popular Mechanics

When the Golden Ray began to list (fill and tip) at 1:30 a.m., a quick-thinking Port of Brunswick official guided it so that the ship [COLOR="blue"]grounded [/COLOR]on its side outside the vital shipping lane.

News4Jax

Cargo ship [COLOR="red"]capsized[/COLOR] Sept. 8 in the St. Simons Sound as it left Port of Brunswick.

gCaptain

The 656-foot Golden Ray was carrying about 4,200 vehicles when it lost stability and [COLOR="blue"]grounded[/COLOR] in St. Simons Bay as it departed Georgia’s Port of Brunswick on 8 September 2019.

Business Insider

The 'unprecedented' wreck of a cargo ship that mysteriously [COLOR="red"]capsized[/COLOR] off the coast of Georgia in September will be sawed apart.

THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE

Attorneys for salvors Donjon-SMIT filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Coast Guard in the U.S. District Court in Brunswick on Thursday in an attempt to halt salvage operations underway for the [COLOR="red"]capsized[/COLOR] car carrier Golden Ray.

WTOC11

It has been months since the Golden Ray [COLOR="red"]capsized[/COLOR] in the St. Simons Sound.

Brunswick News

The Golden Ray then [COLOR="blue"]rolled over[/COLOR] onto its port side, [COLOR="Blue"]running aground[/COLOR] in the ocean bed of the St. Simons Sound.

AJC

Salvage crews have released long-awaited details on the plan to remove the Golden Ray, the [COLOR="red"]capsized[/COLOR] South Korean cargo ship near the Port of Brunswick, where it has been sitting on its side since September.

USA Today

'It's perplexing.' How did the Golden Ray ship [COLOR="Red"]capsize[/COLOR]?

just pickin fight, are you?

Yes! Finally "grounded on its side" instead of "capsize."

On the Duck Boat thread is a link to the process of slicing a 600 foot ship like a loaf of bread. I'll try to post it again.

What I want to find is a live cam of the operation.

Except for the c word, this is a good summary:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a31156358/removing-capsized-cargo-ship-golden-ray/

That article annoyed me...

A sound is a narrow, inland-pointing arm of ocean often made by the ocean flooding a riverbed, like a delta without the mingling and silt. St. Simons Sound has an estimated maximum overall depth of 32 feet—think of this number like the minimum height for a highway, including low bridges—with a jagged, sharp, rocky bottom. The Golden Ray has a draft, or depth from waterline to keel bottom when the ship is fully loaded, of over 31 feet.

Oh my goodness, maximum depth 32 feet, fully loaded draft over 31 Feet, then any fool can see they probably scraped bottom.
NO... fully loaded is 7700 cars, they were carrying 4200 cars, so 3500 cars lighter than fully loaded. Using their 4000 lb average(which is 10 years old), that's 14,000,000 lbs or 7000 tons under fully loaded. That article is misleading at best.

How they are going to do this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2NazOQmJPw&feature=emb_logo

How they did one in the English Channel (27 minutes, but good):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ENOJBLVgjw

They were saying each cut would take 24 hours and they couldn't stop during a cut, so the rich and famous of Jekyll Island would have to suck it up. They would however do pile driving and such during the day.