UPDATE: BoatingSF has a new animation that can be found here: COSCO BUSAN’S TRACK – UPDATED
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Our friend John of VesselTrax.com submitted this link to our Maritime News Discoverer. Click on the picture below and watch as the Cosco Busan leaves the dock and embarks on its fateful voyage.
From BoatingSF.com:
Path of the Cosco Busan Hitting the Bay Bridge
The animation below shows the Cosco Busan as it leaves the Port of Oakland on November 7, 2007, and hits the Bay Bridge at 8:30 am on its way to the Golden Gate.
The Cosco Busan is the bright red arrow. (Hover over a ship to see its information.)
You can see that the ship was traveling at an acute angle to the bridge and then turned sharply, directly into the center tower of the bridge. (The towers are highlighted with red dots to make them more visible.)
No cleanup ships show up in our AIS records. It is not clear whether they arrived later, did not have their AIS transponders on, or if for some reason our receiver did not detect their signals. (Coast Guard ships generally do not turn on their AIS transponders, so they do not show up.)
Stay Tuned as our licensed ship captain John Konrad is preparing a play-by-play video of this AIS data. In the meantime CLICK HERE for the SFGate’s excellent coverage of the incident.
UPDATE 2:
You can find a complete article on how this animation was made HERE.
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Well, the bad thing is that the Oil Pollution Removal service was informed pretty late – over 1 hour after the impact.
Good thing was that they mobilized immediately much more resources than required by the state of California and did not rely on the initial information about an 55 gallon spill (which was in fact 10.000 gal)….
Well, the bad thing is that the Oil Pollution Removal service was informed pretty late – over 1 hour after the impact.
Good thing was that they mobilized immediately much more resources than required by the state of California and did not rely on the initial information about an 55 gallon spill (which was in fact 10.000 gal)….