Our favorite Picture Blog Dark Roasted Blend is running a series titled: Shipwrecks & Sea Disasters
Don’t miss it. Here are but a few of their offerings:
gCaptain also has a more comprehensive post of incident photos in the archives, click HERE to view it.
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This post was written by Richard Rodriguez, Rescue Tug Captain, and US Coast Guard approved instructor for License Training. You can read more of his articles at the BitterEnd of the net.
Stunning, dramatic shipwreck photography by Donibane Sanjuan. See more here.
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This post was written by Richard Rodriguez, Rescue Tug Captain, and US Coast Guard approved instructor for License Training. You can read more of his articles at the BitterEnd of the net.
The task is to lift the whole bridge sections, each weighing approx. 3500 tonnes.
Flickr has a photo set of the Pacuro Storm Iced over. Click HERE to see the photos or head straight to the Photo Slideshow. Photos by terrafesta.
Popular Science brings us Future Navy Ships - Littoral Combat Ship. They write:
This is a small, fast ship (capable of 45 knots) for sub-hunting, mine-clearing, and fighting small boats near coastlines—the littoral region. Each LCS would be equipped with one of three distinct mission modules: a set of plug-and-play ship sensors, missiles, small boats, unmanned underwater vehicles and specially equipped helicopters, for mine warfare, anti-submarine warfare or surface combat. The base configuration would include antimissile batteries and a medium-caliber gun. The ships could clear mines and chase subs away from an area before the rest of the fleet arrived.
Also included in the article are three other ships designed for future combat. You can view the full article with photos HERE.
The following images were taken by the Australian Customs Service in their mission to end Japanese whaling of the Souther Ocean.
Source: Australian Customs Service
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Photo By Gerard Stolk
Shipspotters (via Fred Fry’s Discoverer Entry) brings us Zhen Hua 10 Stranded on Beach near Rotterdam!
We detailed the sister ship Zhen Hua 5 ship in a previous video post titled: Time Lapse Video - Moving a Crane
Ship Of The Day tells us:
Today we have a very special report at Ship of the Day. In the night between friday and saturday, the heavy load carrier Zhen Hua 10 (IMO: 7917410, Port of Registry: Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines), which was anchored near Rotterdam, ran adrift in storm conditions and floated towards the Dutch coast, where she finally ran aground at the ‘Slufter’-beach at the Maasvlakte. For a while it appeared that the vessel was in danger of capsizing, but she was soon stable being stuck in the sand. The Zhen Hua 10 is loaded with 5 containercranes (of which one is destined for the new Euromax-terminal at Rotterdam) from Shanghai and has a crew of 33, which are still on board and not injured. Continue Reading…
AIS Map by dirk.jan
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UPDATE:
Dirkjan (creator of the AIS plot seen above) emailed us with the following update:
I have some news: Zhen Hua 10 is floating again since an half hour. I see this on my Shipplotter screen.
Earlier on Monday they managed to turn the vessel 90 deg,
heading to sea, and around midnight they used 3 harbourtugs
and one big tug (Janus IMO 9367504) and this was succesful.
CargoLaw.com brings us the 2006 incident photos of the M/V Jeppesen Maersk: Read the rest of this entry »
The BBC has a great photo slideshow of the M/V Ice Prince sinking. You can find it HERE.
If you think Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears are the only ones suffering from Fame just be glad your not the captain of this brand new ship! This summer while transiting the Manchester Ship Canal the Container Ship “Arklow Fame” experienced exceptionally strong currents created by the high rainfall experienced in the region.
The silver lining? There are worse choices when naming a ship:
Know a ship with a terrible name? Submit it to our forum.
Pre-Accident photo by Shipspotter William Maclennan:
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