Hi

"Glenn Ashmore" skrev i en meddelelse
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The ship was a rock carrier designed to place riprap around oil
platforms. It had silos that fed a conveyor in the bilge so the COG was
a bit higher than most vessels. There was a report that the ballast
tanks were empty while the ship transited a narrow channel which greatly
limited its stability range. The ship scraped a reef causing some hull
damage on the port side.

Speculation is that as the ship snagged on the rocks it was pulled
rapidly to port and the enertia of the cargo caused the ship to heel to
starboard past its limit of stability.


From what I read, the cargo was stored in "silo's" and water ballast tanks
around . This made sure that the cargo was in several departments also to
avoid the most common reson for cargo vessels to sink, that the cargo move.
This seem impossible with the cargo system in this vessel , beside this
happened in sheltered waters.
The earthquake center ni the near town Bergen , reconised what could be the
vessel hitting ground tree times ,but the mayday was send several minuts
before this was documented, ---------- so the mayday ocoured before the
vessel suffered.

In all the text it is stated, that there is no reef no stones or any other
vessels in the arear. Only explernation I can think of, is that a Silo
cracked and internal stress made the rest Silos puncture making the cargo
able to move. But even then what witness have seen, is a ship that just lean
over and turn upside down --------- at that point the cargo could have
slipped out the hatches and made the earthquake center notis, but id there
is no dameage on Silo's and the deck is not blown , it is an unidentified
floating object, ------a huge one doing hardly any dameage even turning a 26
thousand tonn upside down.
I mean this vessel is made for sailing in some of the worlds vorse waters,
and then it capsise in a fjord.

P.C.