December 10, 2007 - Upon departure from Montevideo on The Rio de la Plata, the M/V Norwegian Dream fully loaded with passengers on a 23 day cruise, collided with an adrift container barge. Despite valiant efforts the collision could not be avoided.
Both vessels suffered severe damage. The barge lost multiple autos and containers overboard with loss and damage estimated in the millions. The M/V Norwegian Dream suffered a four-by-four foot hole in the bow about five feet above the water line, and was quickly returned to Montevideo for repairs.
As for the passengers, they were offered some compensation for the mishap but continued on after the repairs were made.
More information on this incident can be found at CargoLaw.
Another interesting note… The Norwegian Dream is now a two-time Incident Photo of The Week’er. Check out the first incident HERE.
Tags: · barge, collision, cruise_ship, incident
On the East River approximately one mile west of SUNY Maritime College sits the Vernon C. Bain a prison barge used to help solve overcrowding problem at Riker’s Island, the world’s largest penal colony. This floating correctional facility is however, not unique. Subtopia tells us:
The deeper I get into it, the more I realize an entire book could probably be written about the subject of floating prisons -– and who knows, maybe in another dream one day I’ll write it –- (there is probably already some magnificent mini opus out there that I have — for at least the time being — overlooked) but for now, let’s just settle for a quick and dirty Googleized survey.
Click HERE for the full article that contains many interesting photos.
(Thanks to BitterEnd for the find)
Tags: · barge, east river, nyc, prison, rikers island
We are starting a new feature here on gCaptain titled “Interesting Ship Of The Week” and the first vessel we’d like to share this unusual barge transporter near Krasnoyarskaya Russia.
Unfortunately we don’t have many details but the pictures tell most of the story. Visit EnglishRussia.com for the high resolution images.
UPDATE:
Capdiamont offers the details behind this railed giant;
I can’t find the original source he used, but it is a massive electrically powered rack railway that hauls ships, up and over a dam in Russia. At the top it has a turntable so the locomotive can be turned to keep it’s load straight, no matter which way it goes. Think of the top of the dam as the crest. In order to keep the downhill side always downhill, you have to turn it. This one is unusual because the top of the turntable is slanted to keep the locomotive slanted, so the load stays level. Add to all this, is the massive size of everything. This has to be the longest, and heaviest turntable in the world.
If you look at some of the pictures, you can see the gears to mesh in to the rails. That is my reasoning for it to be a rack railway, even though it doesn’t have the traditional center rack, like you would think. (Source: Capdiamont)
We are glad to get the facts behind this story. Honest thanks also goes out to NavaGear for the English lesson in the comments.
Tags: · barge, canal, cold war relic, Interesting, Maritime, monorail, photos, russia, ship
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Bloomberg News tells us:
South Korea’s coast guard sent boats to contain the country’s biggest oil spill in more than a decade after a Hong Kong-registered supertanker collided with a barge.
About 81,000 barrels of crude oil was spilt after a crane on the barge crashed into the Hebei Spirit at 7:15 a.m. local time, Jeong Seon Mun, deputy director of the maritime safety information center at South Korea’s Ministry of Maritime Affairs & Fisheries, said. The ship was anchored 5 miles (8 kilometers) northwest of the Taean peninsula at the time.
The leak is almost a third of the 37,000 tons spilled into Prince William Sound, Alaska, by the Exxon Valdez in 1989, according to data on the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation’s Web site. The Taean Coast Guard deployed 12 patrol boats and 3 accident control vessels, Jeong said today.
“Oil is still spilling,” Jeong said by telephone in Seoul. “The police face difficulty in carrying out the operation because high waves make it hard to contain the spill.” Continue Reading…
Tags: · barge, coast_guard, crane, crude_oil, Environment, Heavy Lift, maritime_affairs, maritime_safety, marpol, MARPOL Incidents, oil_spill, south_korea, Tankers
