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Default Overloaded ship? You decide.....

On Sun, 13 May 2007 10:26:51 -0400, Gene Kearns wrote:


Top heavy? Maybe, but that's a different issue. I'd guess that was
carefully calculated in advance.


I had no idea how detailed this move was calculated:
http://tinyurl.com/35j28n


I found a few more pictures, and some more information about those
cranes. Apparently, those four cranes were only part of the shipment.
The Zhen Hua 16 had already dropped two more cranes off in Kingston,
Jamaica. The fully loaded ship can be seen he

http://www.raleighchronicle.com/2007020616.html

Another picture with the ship de-ballasted:

http://www.islandgazette.net/photo2/...a/Cranes%20Old
%20Baldy.jpg