Oh dear look whats happened tonight in the Solent

Don't know if its true but just read this


"...the vessel never suffered any loss of propulsion or steerage nor was it any kind of pilot or navigational error. Early indications are that poor ballast/bunker tank management could be to blame. A large amount of bunker fuel was allowed to drain from the port side over to starboard at the moment the vessel was negotiating the turn to port around the west bramble cardinal bouy. This, combined with slack ballast tanks caused the vessel to take on a very pronounced list to starboard.

...she had made a full 180 degree turn round to port and was listing at approx 50 degrees. The pilot deliberately beached the car carrier in an effort to avoid a potential capsize situation.

...it's important to stress how calm and collected the pilot remained throughout the whole incident. He was the last person to be airlifted off the stricken vessel and deserves the utmost respect for his behaviour".

 

maybe its a she....

 

it might have been a man who was distracted by a woman.

 

she might have been playing with his rudder for example.

 

I take it all back

 

It's a bloke. If you look carefully at the picture of the bridge, you can see a Magic Tree air freshener hanging from the mirror, and a copy of the Sun on the top of the dash.

 

Pilot? Thought they'd have been better off with a sailor.

 

Fortunately being a warship navigator we never had to take a harbour pilot in many places, where we did some were helpful some not so. He'll be unpopular if its his fault although given its a major UK port you would expect he or she to be very knowledgeable.

 

I think it's a ploy by that dick camerman to take the attention away from the start of what will be a very long and boring election campaign.

 

Worth zooming out and looking at the traffic in the English Channel - it's like the M25 in the rush hour!

 

Worlds busiest water way

 

Where did you read this Mick? We read this: "a mechanical malfunction could be to blame for the incident, with a hard port steer engaged".

Think its far too early for the reasons to be out yet and speculation is the majority at the moment, can't imagine its been investigated enough yet. Will be interesting to see what happens. Have you been to look? We did and got some pics - don't know what the chances are of seeing something like that again in a lifetime are. Just sad for the one in Scotland which seems to be getting very little publicity in comparison.

Shame its "apparently" full of jap cars and jcb's we could of got lucky Of course if it is jcb's they could unload the cargo and use it to dig it out

 

This morning:



This evening when the water level had dropped by about 4m this side:



Dunno about what you guys think but the water level definitely doesn't appear to of dropped on the boat, does that mean its sinking, or its rolled over further? Hmm....... A new landmark!

 

Quite scary to see the radar plot at night with all those ferries dashing about.

 

There is a suggestion that she might have settled a tad...something I'm sure Svitzer will be watching closely whilst working out a recovery.

 

Scarier looking at your own as you pass through the shipping lanes with no steering.

 

It looks higher out of the water to me and also more keeled over - check out the steering gear.

 

I love the way that if the pilot makes a mistake and the vessel runs aground its the captains fault for listening to him, but if the captain ignores the pilot and runs aground its still his fault.

It does look like the rudder is slightly more out of the water.

If the Concordia could be salvaged then this one should be simple.

 

Very. Always had a great respect for the OoW getting us through in one piece....made going below to a nice warm engine room seem a bit of a doddle.