On August 9, 2010, the Panamanian registered container ship, MSC CHITRA, collided with the MV-KHALIJIA II, a St. Kits registered ship. The stricken CHITRA, lies tilted in the Arabian Sea close to Mumbai (Bombay), India.
Looks like someone is going to have some hard explaining to do. I would like to be a fly on the wall to hear the excuse.
Montani semper liberi ! Happy modeling to all and every one of you.
Crackers [8-|]
Yeah, and now imagine a model you ordered was in one of the containers that slipped into the sea…
Boy does this look bad! I wonder if the ship can be saved. That tilt must make any work to do there really hard. Oil is spilling too… Ain’t it a damn shame when it happens!
Thanks for another interesting article Crackers!
Pawel Mroczkowski
That is one heck of a list. I wonder how much water is under the keel. If they can off load her and make her less top heavy, she might come back to a more even keel. At least the oil seems to be light, like diesel fuel (which it probably is) so it will, more than likely, evaporate.
My last ship, the Lexington, ran aground off of Boston Harbor in '75. Some wiseacre wrote “Cap’n Crunch and his Funny Bunch” on the hull in huge red lead primer letters. The press loved it; the CO did not. It didn’t matter anyway, he got canned for the incident.
edit: After reading further, I learned that this container ship ran aground, which is a good thing.
I had not read the article, but figured that she was “Fast on the Rocks” becasue with the weight she has on deck at that angle she would have turned turtle by now, no matter how much DC and counter flooding she can handle. that got to be at least 70 degrees.
What’s that thing under the helicopter?
Manny’s gonna be ticked - the Zuiho that he ordered was on that ship…
I suspect a dispersant sprayer.
Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas
Gooooood… That’s one less container to empty for me… (im a warehouse dude)
Richard
i think you mean container ship not container.
As Ricky Ricardo would say, “Lucy, you go some ‘splainin’ to do!!!”
Containerships always look top-heavy because of all those cans on deck, but many of them could be empty, or have low density cargo. Anyway, it’s always bad to have that deck edge go under.
Full reporting and assessment at the CARGOLAW site run by litigators Countryman & McDaniel.
The Indian government is encouraging salvors to round up the containers so that the port of Mumbai can be opened to traffic
CARGOLAW seems to always have good pics of maritime and other disasters
(caution, turn down the volume before going to their main page - the Perry Mason theme music blares loundly!)