Coast Guard, Coast Guard, we are in heavy seas and declaring an emergency. We cannot stop this terrible music! Oh and we are loosing our cargo as well.
Those are fermentation tanks. They are used for making beer and other alcohol. They are being shipped empty and are thus light weight, but obviously were not lashed down well.
+terrabus1 Then again, maybe some other islanders will unexpectedly go into the beer-making business, without having to borrow a fortune to pay for the capital equipment.
The music was terrific. Nice intro, then it sounded like Sade at the beginning, then kinda morphed into a Madonna-like voice. Nice tempo and all as clean and precise as you could want. And kudos for leaving the extra minute plus in so the song could play through. I enjoyed it it thoroughly. Thanks!
And that's why we usually use one inch line all around to secure these drums instead of half inch. But the company did save a few hundred dollars with the half inch.....go figure.......
If there wasn't enough force to rip the container apart, then there is no excuse for the restraints coming loose. You would always use chain strong enough to suspend double the weight of the cargo. At least that is what I do when hauling loads on my truck.
Well that's a mistake in the video loosing the cargo isn't the worst condition(unless it's oil or any other polluting substance) there are list of disasters that can hit the ship which we were taught in college the worst of them are fire and collision.
The cylinders were improperly secured to the deck and to each other. Industry best practices are to stand them on end, in two rows of three, with a large plastic fastener at the top that securely grips all six at once. An oversize elastic band is then run from one rail, over the top, down to the other rail.
I'm sure all procedures were followed, but heavy seas are capable of destroying virtually everything on board, by the looks of it, this was the most convenient space to load these things and they are probably hard to tie down, when one starts rolling and banging into others, sooner or later they all go.
i have no merchant mariner experience so i have a condescending attitude so i can proclaim this is stupid and i would've done it better .when in reality that translates to i have a small gentlemans sausage so i will make as many people that i can look stupid to so i can slowly fade out of the attention to my inadequacies
I pretend I am a competent expert, so I can have a condescending attitude so I can proclaim that all criticism of incidents like this are unwarranted, untrue, and stupid. When in reality, I am a proud but incompetent and foolish journeyman, so I try to whitewash the resulting blunders caused by my incompetence & foolishness (and the same committed by people like me), by attacking the character of any critics. Maybe people will be so distracted by evaluating the character of the critics, they won't discover my (and others like me) incompetence and foolishness.
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Well the Cargo was 100% secured and lashed when they left the terminal otherwise PSC(Port State Control) wouldn't have left the ship sail if there were any deficiencies....the locks must have been broken due to rolling and pitching due to harsh sea conditions....The sea is always a tough thing even someone who have spent 20 years working in it would get seasick...
Most of the cargo is shipped in squared casks. They make it easier to lash, or "block. There are several adequate vessels made just for sophisticated transport.
Much better, original version of this: "Perils of the sea" on RU-vid now. Much higher definition, no cropping, and the original ships sounds with the crew discussing the problem and reporting the hazards to local shipping.
We lost Paper Mill containers in the big Pacific in 98, customer not happy, bottom line bruised till the Insurance check arrived. I love the ocean, unpredictableyet so beautiful, especially in the Lesser Antilles....
Interesting - when I first went to sea 60 years ago, deck cargo other than timber was anathema to our officers. They would have hysterics at the sight of this poorly strapped cargo with no chocks. Timber was fun, the Scowegians often went by with their decks awash, kept afloat by their cargo. Wind driven pumps too!
It is not the ship's crew that loads and secures the cargo. This is done by specialized stevadores. It is however the captain's responsibility (via his right hand mate, the Chief Officer) to make sure they do a good job. If the captain does not approve of the way the cargo is secured they have to do it again until he is happy. In many cases it ends up with shouting match between the CO and the stevadores as the later want to finish the job as fast as possible.
And all you can do is say "not a damn thing you can do about it." You sure as hell wouldn't see me out there trying to relash the cargo in that craziness.
Nothing wrong with the music. It actually goes with the flow of the video. Hey ruffneckilla where did you get this video clip. Were you on the ship? What ship was it?
I am a cargo securing expert! and that incident just comes under "S*** happens" they look stowed correctly. The crew are supposed to check the securing chains every few hours to ensure that they are tights. I would have not used this type of vessel to send these tanks, I would have sent them using a Ro-Ro vessel and secured them internally on Maffi trailers.
the owner of the company who was doing the lashing and the securing on deck was probably very happy to hear the news about the missing cargo at destination :)
Ive done quite a bit of drugs in my life and never would have thought that this music goes well with this video. Any chance you can let me know what you're on? Sounds like fun!!!
Like I told my friend when I was helping him move his sofas with my truck, he asked "why are you putting two straps on there?" My dad said, "Son, you can never put too many tie downs on a cargo"
most likely project cargo and not tank containers.... and with the sea like this, jettisoning the cargo would be a better option than risking the vessel with damage or loss of stability....
Like others here, I'm very curious as to what was in those containers. I've never seen cylinders quite like that before. Were they ever recovered? Seems like if they washed ashore somewhere, it'd at least merit a local headline!
By what I see the lashing job was not satisfactory in the least but all cargo is insured. We had 4 large pressure vessels that went off the deck in a typhoon but the Captain gave the order to cut everything free or they would have lost the ship. The problem was the vessels were required on-site immediately so the manufacturer worked around the clock to replace them in record time so site penalties were avoided.
legend has it that hundreds of containers fall of of cargo ships a year, and that they are designed to sink, but don't do so all the time, often just floating below the surface, posing a big threat to recreational boaters.
Lol at the top comments, those guys need to learn about the "mute" and "hide annotations" buttons... I personally love this song and think it fits the video (at least better than Justin Bieber would, by the way title is Ocean Drive by Madison Park), also knowing that those guys sent messages to warn other ships about the lost cargo is nice so annotations make sense. Really cool video!
The forward crane caisson looked like it took a beating. Those containers would've been better secured in the hold of a small bulker or maybe a lumber carrier. The flat deck of a narrow general cargo ship can become a highly unstable area in rough weather......especially for cylindrical containers of considerable weight.
for anyone seeking what the pcs were or are they look more like high pressure vessels or maybe storage silos transformers don't have funnels at their base and spout holes to displace the contents looks agricultural or maybe giant beer vats
To all of you asking why the don't fix it in heavy sea, this would be suicide and no captn with clear mind would allow this. Better to lose some cargo than to endanger crew and/or vessel. In the end it's only possible to fix that barrels at just one end and then cargo starts "dancing" - if it's possible to do that at all. But in the end it's better to let the cargo overboard than a crew member.
just proves the quality of seamanship the crew has,maybe the mate and the captain need to overlook their crew henceforth on all cargo operations....or maybe they never cared...
Damn, where are the Able Bodied Seamen on the ship???? Sailors have dealt with rough seas for thousands of years and survived because they went out and secured cargo that had broken loose. You're lucky it didn't sink the Ship.
ps: My plan for the (Submersible) transport vessel would work fine with small load's or even group's of traveller's. It would only be about 80 feet long, (a submersible Clipper Ship=Speedy)! I think the old Clipper ship's were brilliantly designed!
I was wondering what would happen if a captain tried to send a crew out there. No way I’d go, they could lock me up for the rest of the trip before I’d go out there!
