[Philc]

MAERSK TAMPA

Reverse Gear Now Please!!!


Hmmmmmmm!



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[Sailor_Buoy]

Ouch! Is that ever going to hurt when the tide goes out! :o

[pitdoctor]

How fast do you figure they were going when they hit?

[nolatom]

Ow! Definitely not an ice-class bow, and a strong wharf cap, by the looks of things. Wha happen? I don't see a tug, at least on port side, and can't tell if they have a pilot flag flying. Steering loss? Bungled engine bell? Lost plant? Or just a goof-up?

Yeah, all those containers are going to have to wait a while.....

[Deepsea]

pitdoctor, on Feb 1 2006, 10:09 PM, said:

How fast do you figure they were going when they hit?

Not very fast- F=MA you don't need a lot of A with that much M!

Here's another with the ship already moved...

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[nolatom]

Okay, well, maybe not quite that strong a wharf....

[Ball&chain plate]

I thought you meant Howard and Jerry!

[mustang__1]

that would be an exellent point in time to use the f word.

[Special Ed]

Can't help thinking it would have been really funny to take a can of spray paint and "modify" the picture showing the bow bulb to represent its present state...


Also apparently the "no smoking" did not apply to the pilot...

[celphtaught]

id be pretty much psyched if i was the cap of that ship

[GRUMPY]

The tracks for the container crane seem to have gone as well Rick...sommink screwy???

[The Fish]

It must have hit the 4th mode

[Deepsea]

OzRick, on Feb 2 2006, 12:35 AM, said:

nolatom, on Feb 1 2006, 02:51 PM, said:

Okay, well, maybe not quite that strong a wharf....

Surely they're different events? First post pics are blue, and containers stacked behind superstructure, second pic ship is green, and the shore side is quite different - no railway tracks, no curb, no cranes, etc .....

Totally different events- the pic I posted was just a similiar event that I saw in the port of Djibouti. Several causes for these- sometimes dirt in the pneumatic engine controls. Sometimes a wrong button pushed on the bridge controls. By the time the direct drive engine starts, it can be too late to stop. Dead slow ahead on these ships can be 7 knots.

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[Shife]

I hope the harbor pilot that was in charge of that thing was ready to retire...

[GRUMPY]

The 2 pix showing portside, is there 2 different water levels there or am I seeing cockeyed?

[foredeckhell]

shit... somebody lost their job

[Philc]

I sent the photos to a retired ships captain.

He said it never happened to him but he had seen it happen to other ships.

His view was that it was most likely a tug problem as they tended to not use the ships motor within 500 meters of the wharf relying on the tugs to guide the ship in.

Now is a line to the tug breaks then you can get what you see in the photo as they generally do not have time to use the ships engine to stop the ship.

[S Brennan]

Just curious,

Did anybody say, "blow the chute" just before this happened?

[edboat]

When I was in the Navy in the dark ages, the Captain would not give the con to the pilot and put the bow of the ship 8 feet into the dock. While we were in the yard for repairs the Captain was relieved. Go figure.

[kent_island_sailor]

These ships must be a bitch to maneuver without a tug. Most of them have a single engine with direct drive, so you have to shut the engine down and restart it in reverse. They also have a "feature" where above a certain speed there is too much force on the prop to spin the engine the other way, so you have to just sit there with no power until you lose enough speed to start in reverse.

[SamLowry]

So, ehh.... What's it rate?