The real solution is lightering, reducing the load by offloading to smaller vessels.
I must have helped dozens of grounded vessels on a tug. This was deliberate, done by the Chinese to test Biden and show the world that they must look elsewhere for leadership. They are deliberately dragging their feet on mitigation as well.
It is no coincidence that at the same time this is happening hundreds of Chinese commercial vessels are pillaging strategic Philippine fishing grounds.
Buckle up, Biden's weakness is taking us to the brink of war!
This vessel is leased to a Taiwanese company that traffics between Taiwan and China.
Any company, be it a text book manufacturer or a shipping company, that deals with China is obliged to deal with them on their terms including giving them access to electronic data.
No pilot ran this ship aground in the Suez, this is not an old rust bucket, this is a state of the art computerized ship on a digitally corrected course.
Forensic audits of seaborne and inland hazardous chemical and bulk container vessel incidents was just one small part of my job as the assistant Port Captain, in charge of Hazardous Chemical transportation for a major carrier.
I even took charge of the spill mitigation for the Skyway Bridge disaster when the Formosa Pine rammed two tugs and the southern span.
I testified in another incident involving an outbound container vessel just like this one that cut a sulfur barge in half and nearly sank the tug pushing it.
A guy down below mentioned the high windage and normally he'd be correct, but again this is not some coastal rust bucket.
In my mind this was deliberate. Either the pilots were paid to do it, or more likely, the computerized track was tampered with by CCP operatives. I'd bet money on it.
The mitigation is also a dog and pony show. You can dig all you want but you won't break the suction between the hull and mud. They need to get a seagoing barge in on both sides and a couple of Sikorsky skycranes to off load enough containers to get the vessel back under control.
Okay, but that's your opinion, I quote " In my mind this was deliberate " Time ill pass before the news reports on what any investigation may turn up. I will agree it's possible that this was no accident, that it may have nothing to do with what I read about a cross wind. After all, the bow AND stern ought to be pushed an equal amount out of the canal center, if wind were the cause. But, it makes more logical sense than your theory, to me. But, I've been wrong a lot in my life, and I'll be wrong again of course
Well yeah of course it is only my opinion, and educated one that is made from much experience , but an opinion none the less.
Time will tell, I agree.
The bow thruster you mention is mounted horizontally along the bow and computerized to mitigate the force of wind on the ship's superstructure and load, while also compensating for the push of tide along the submerged hull.
In other words the bow thruster was made to stop just this type of incident from occurring.
This is not the first high windage container vessel to come through here. This is one of the most trafficked canals in the world and has never experienced a problem like this to the degree of this particular incident.
The safety record of both the canal and the shipping line along with my operational knowledge leads me to believe that this was no accident.
Shipboard navigation panels can and have been hi-jacked in the past. That seems to me the more believable scenario.
I never mentioned a bow thruster, lol, but now that you reminded me that this ship would have one, it adds a LOT more evidence to your premise. Well played!
The real solution is lightering, reducing the load by offloading to smaller vessels.
ReplyDeleteI must have helped dozens of grounded vessels on a tug. This was deliberate, done by the Chinese to test Biden and show the world that they must look elsewhere for leadership. They are deliberately dragging their feet on mitigation as well.
It is no coincidence that at the same time this is happening hundreds of Chinese commercial vessels are pillaging strategic Philippine fishing grounds.
Buckle up, Biden's weakness is taking us to the brink of war!
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ReplyDeleteChinese? this is a Japanese owned Ship...this is more like Godzilla's Revenge
ReplyDeleteThis vessel is leased to a Taiwanese company that traffics between Taiwan and China.
DeleteAny company, be it a text book manufacturer or a shipping company, that deals with China is obliged to deal with them on their terms including giving them access to electronic data.
No pilot ran this ship aground in the Suez, this is not an old rust bucket, this is a state of the art computerized ship on a digitally corrected course.
Forensic audits of seaborne and inland hazardous chemical and bulk container vessel incidents was just one small part of my job as the assistant Port Captain, in charge of Hazardous Chemical transportation for a major carrier.
I even took charge of the spill mitigation for the Skyway Bridge disaster when the Formosa Pine rammed two tugs and the southern span.
I testified in another incident involving an outbound container vessel just like this one that cut a sulfur barge in half and nearly sank the tug pushing it.
A guy down below mentioned the high windage and normally he'd be correct, but again this is not some coastal rust bucket.
In my mind this was deliberate. Either the pilots were paid to do it, or more likely, the computerized track was tampered with by CCP operatives. I'd bet money on it.
The mitigation is also a dog and pony show. You can dig all you want but you won't break the suction between the hull and mud. They need to get a seagoing barge in on both sides and a couple of Sikorsky skycranes to off load enough containers to get the vessel back under control.
Okay, but that's your opinion, I quote " In my mind this was deliberate "
DeleteTime ill pass before the news reports on what any investigation may turn up.
I will agree it's possible that this was no accident, that it may have nothing to do with what I read about a cross wind.
After all, the bow AND stern ought to be pushed an equal amount out of the canal center, if wind were the cause.
But, it makes more logical sense than your theory, to me.
But, I've been wrong a lot in my life, and I'll be wrong again of course
Well yeah of course it is only my opinion, and educated one that is made from much experience , but an opinion none the less.
DeleteTime will tell, I agree.
The bow thruster you mention is mounted horizontally along the bow and computerized to mitigate the force of wind on the ship's superstructure and load, while also compensating for the push of tide along the submerged hull.
In other words the bow thruster was made to stop just this type of incident from occurring.
This is not the first high windage container vessel to come through here. This is one of the most trafficked canals in the world and has never experienced a problem like this to the degree of this particular incident.
The safety record of both the canal and the shipping line along with my operational knowledge leads me to believe that this was no accident.
Shipboard navigation panels can and have been hi-jacked in the past. That seems to me the more believable scenario.
But again, as you said, time will tell.
I never mentioned a bow thruster, lol, but now that you reminded me that this ship would have one, it adds a LOT more evidence to your premise. Well played!
DeleteClearly deliberate, this is basically an act of war. Question is, who's going to pull the trigger first?
ReplyDeleteI don't get what all this talk of war is about... this skyscraper sized flat sided bulk simply can't power through a canal with a cross wind
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