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Norwegian cargo vessel hitting ------
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This first class vessel with a crew at atleast 24 hit "somthing" in a norwegian fjord. The vessel instantly turned upside down halve the crew suffered. Problem is that there is nothing to "hit" in that fjord, people seen the vessel suddenly just leaning over and turning upside down in an instant. http://www6.nrk.no/galleri/bildegall...et&banner=hord aland&h=650&w=650 Why so big a crew, what did it hit a russian sub, most unlikely. A Unidentified floating object ? P.C. |
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Norwegian cargo vessel hitting ------
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. P.C. wrote: Hi This first class vessel with a crew at atleast 24 hit "somthing" in a norwegian fjord. The vessel instantly turned upside down halve the crew suffered. Problem is that there is nothing to "hit" in that fjord, people seen the vessel suddenly just leaning over and turning upside down in an instant. http://www6.nrk.no/galleri/bildegall...et&banner=hord aland&h=650&w=650 Why so big a crew, what did it hit a russian sub, most unlikely. A Unidentified floating object ? P.C. -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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Norwegian cargo vessel hitting ------
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"Glenn Ashmore" skrev i en meddelelse news:rO9Rb.1$u_6.0@lakeread04... 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. |
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