Incident Photo of The Week - Head On Collision

Published: August 12th, 2008 by mike | Comments |


Like one of those awkward moments you get when rushing on a busy sidewalk, M/V Grande Nigeria and M/V Nada V just couldn’t seem to pick sides and suffered a head on collision.

disaster2006grandenigeria2 Incident Photo of The Week   Head On Collision

More information and photos of this incident can be found at CargoLaw.

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  • Speculation only. In river accidents the rudder is always the suspect. If found to be operationally sound and orders were appropriate, the next area of investigation are the channel dimensions and a querry on bank suction. A right hand turning propeller smelling a good bank gradient can sheer a ship 30 degrees easily even with hard-over opposite rudder. Instinct is to increase speed; it only exacberate problem, I'll bet on bank suction
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