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My understanding is the weather caused this. A severe dust storm with high winds. No visibility and no control against the wind due to the profile of the ship.
wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 02:23 last edited by taiwan_girlI would think a ship like this would have pretty detailed navigating systems.
The front of the ship starts to go off the correct line, the motors power one side or the other to correct for example
It just surprises me that this would happen. For sure, someone who was steering messed up big time!
Evergreen is a Taiwan company, and the headline in one of the papers yesterday was "National Embarrassing!"
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wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 02:31 last edited by
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wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 07:02 last edited by
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wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 10:27 last edited by
That ship has 20,000 containers on it.
The scale is amazing.
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wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 11:17 last edited by
You can see the ship here:
https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000
And look at all the ships waiting when you zoom out.
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I would think a ship like this would have pretty detailed navigating systems.
The front of the ship starts to go off the correct line, the motors power one side or the other to correct for example
It just surprises me that this would happen. For sure, someone who was steering messed up big time!
Evergreen is a Taiwan company, and the headline in one of the papers yesterday was "National Embarrassing!"
wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 11:25 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in Stuck:
I would think a ship like this would have pretty detailed navigating systems.
The front of the ship starts to go off the correct line, the motors power one side or the other to correct for example
It just surprises me that this would happen. For sure, someone who was steering messed up big time!
Evergreen is a Taiwan company, and the headline in one of the papers yesterday was "National Embarrassing!"
The winds blew the stern of the ship off, not the bow.
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wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 17:19 last edited by jon-nyc
Good picture from that Reuters article. Look at all those containers
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wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 17:45 last edited by
@jon-nyc Ther's got to be what? 1800 on there? 2000? Those things weigh 4 tons empty...The ship itself is 200,000 tons. The max payload for most of those containers is 30 tons. Guess an average payload of 16 tons for shits and giggles... You're getting up close to 250,000 tons and that's a conservative guess.
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wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 17:48 last edited by
I wonder how much that Captain makes a year and whether he feels it is worth it right now?
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I wonder how much that Captain makes a year and whether he feels it is worth it right now?
wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 17:49 last edited by Doctor Phibes@lufins-dad said in Stuck:
I wonder how much that Captain makes a year and whether he feels it is worth it right now?
Look on the bright side, he's got a great story for his grandchildren.
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wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 22:56 last edited by jon-nyc
It’s one of the largest container ships in the world.
Its max capacity is 20,000 containers.
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wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 23:10 last edited by
Ive been looking for diagrams since I can’t figure out where the bridge is.
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wrote on 26 Mar 2021, 23:33 last edited by
It’s one of the largest container ships in the world.
Its max capacity is 20,000 containers.
20,000 8’ by 40’? That’s what I based my guess on.
In that picture, l’m counting 9-10 rows high, 24 long, and 10 deep (give or take). I was figuring those to be the typical 8’ x 40’ giving a max of 2400. Obviously I am missing something...
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It’s one of the largest container ships in the world.
Its max capacity is 20,000 containers.
20,000 8’ by 40’? That’s what I based my guess on.
In that picture, l’m counting 9-10 rows high, 24 long, and 10 deep (give or take). I was figuring those to be the typical 8’ x 40’ giving a max of 2400. Obviously I am missing something...
wrote on 27 Mar 2021, 00:05 last edited by@lufins-dad said in Stuck:
It’s one of the largest container ships in the world.
Its max capacity is 20,000 containers.
20,000 8’ by 40’? That’s what I based my guess on.
In that picture, l’m counting 9-10 rows high, 24 long, and 10 deep (give or take). I was figuring those to be the typical 8’ x 40’ giving a max of 2400. Obviously I am missing something...
Is this one at max capacity?
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@lufins-dad said in Stuck:
I wonder how much that Captain makes a year and whether he feels it is worth it right now?
Look on the bright side, he's got a great story for his grandchildren.
wrote on 27 Mar 2021, 00:06 last edited by@doctor-phibes said in Stuck:
Look on the bright side, he's got a great story for his grandchildren.
Once upon a time, the winds of fate blew me ship off and put it squarely on the “pause” button of global commerce ...
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wrote on 27 Mar 2021, 00:09 last edited by
Got me wonder how the Thunderbirds team would deal with something like this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)
Maybe they won’t at all, since no human life is at stake. :man-shrugging: