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Would the parts of the stern have imploded as she sank further deep down? There is no way that the entirety of the stern filled up with water prior to it suddenly and very quickly going under. The stern would have very rapidly flooded as she went under, forcing the air out very quickly (like the stern on the Titanic I believe). Therefore, would she have imploded as this happened? Just look at what happened to the funnel. A very impressive video.
350 000 tons of iron ore represents considerable cash value. I'm wondering if most, or any, of the ore was removed before she was scuttled. Something fishy here because the ship, too, after being unladen and consequently floating at less draught, could probably have been towed to drydock and repaired. My guess is that the insurance provider and/or Brazilian marine authority, realizing that above option was more costly than scuttling, chose the latter. Which raises some disturbing questions...do governments and insurance providers presume to have the authority to make ENVIRONMENTAL decisions based on profitability ?? What was the damage, if any, to marine life in the area where this ship was scuttled ?? What penalties were imposed on the ship's operators for navigational negligence ??
Did either one of you bother to think that your preachy excessive dirge of a comment might not be rooted in fact, and that a scope of harm was done to see what option had less damage? Of course not. Because you can't listen and learn at the same time
@@johnbellocchio66 so...after you discussed the transfer of the freight to another ship, and sat down with the Brazilian marine authority as well as this ship's underwriter and it was revealed to you that scuttling was an option being pursued not by economics but for other reasons, what did they share with you ?? Please fill us in O Grand Visier. We await your response with bated breath.
I saw a vlcc sink in around 1977, the ship was Sun Seahorse, scuttled on 18deg west, turrned out to be a big fraud, ship was originally called Salem, I was a junior engineer on British Trident, we picked up the crew and took them into Dakar.
Did the Stellar Banner blow her horn right before she went down? or was it the tug towards her bow? i'm referring to the first, duller horn, not the second one that is clearly from the vessel that was filming her sinking.
In WWII submarine movies, men on the attacking sub can hear the steel of sinking ship groaning an snapping. This video made me realize those sound effects were pretty accurate.
I know a guy who'd been a sonarman on submarines & one of the few references that he could make to his old job was that he'd heard a ship sinking & it bothered him for years what he heard.
Clearest quality video I've seen of Stellar Banner. I appreciate that you point out the effect of water pressure breaking her apart as she went, and even seeing that as the hatches slip under. Stellar Banner's sinking being video recorded is some of my favorite visuals to have, simply for giving prime example of how these ships (be it bulkers, ore carriers, or OBOs), despite their enormous size, can sink quite suddenly. Studying these types of casualties, there are often descriptions that give clue to this. The Nagos, in May 1993, taking on water after suffering structural damage forward, and with roughly half her crew picked up by South African air rescue, was awaiting a salvage tug. According to the tug's crew, all contact was suddenly lost, and Nagos disappeared from their radar screen. In February 1997, the captain of Leros Strength, issuing a frantic distress call describing the foremost hatch awash, then contact being lost three minutes later. No doubt scenes similar to this took place far from any witnessing eyes. Above all, however, the ship that comes to mind with Stellar Banner's loss is that of Stellar Daisy in 2017. She suffered a rapid brittle fracture in No.2/3 ballast tanks, port side, and the captain texted a contact of the owners that they were taking on water. It took just five minutes from then till the EPIRB went off.
@@rjonsen 2 out of 24 survived, by sheer luck. One survivor was on the bridge, and stepped out to the port bridge wing directly into the water (Stellar Daisy listed over about 45 degrees). The other survivor had been trying to free life saving gear on the starboard side and was swept away as she sank. How they weren't dragged down too, I have no idea.
A lot of the cargo was unloaded while she was a ground, then re-floated. The salvage company and other parties decided to scuttle her after towing her to deep waters.
