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Departing Rotterdam, a genuine megaport

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So ugly it makes the baby jesus cry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkLzzRWUBQk

neris

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So ugly it makes the baby jesus cry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkLzzRWUBQk

what a hideous looking thing. true what they say, money cant buy you taste

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Om nom nom

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Another Arklow baby in the making

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A rare WW2 image of a tanker underway and with torpedo nets deployed.

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A Dutch freighter has sank after colliding nearly head on with the Marshall Islands-flagged LNG carrier Al-Oraiq in the North Sea off Belgium on Tuesday morning.

All 12 crew members from the freighter, named Flinterstar, have been rescued. The crew members were rescued from the cold North Sea, including one person who was reportedly suffering from hypothermia, according to a Coast Guard spokesperson.

Photos of the Flinterstar show partially sunk, resting on a sandbank in calm seas and clear visibility. Dutch ship owner Flinter has confirmed that the ship sank, the crew is safe and the vessel is ‘stable’. A small oil sheen has been reported.

http://gcaptain.com/dutch-freighter-flinterstar-sinks-after-collision-with-lng-carrier/

This is the other ship involved

neris

would the ship have been put up on the sandbank after the collison? and also if the ship isnt going to fully sink why would they get into the
"cold North Sea" ?

postitnote

neris wrote: »

would the ship have been put up on the sandbank after the collison? and also if the ship isnt going to fully sink why would they get into the
"cold North Sea" ?

Perhaps the ship wasn't 'put' on the sandbank, but rather that's where it ended up. A good shunt off course in relatively shallow water means that taking on water is going to put you on the seabed quite quickly.

Here's a video of the track of the vessels involved in the collision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IknycXF_lSI

Mr_A

It's like a game of chicken that went badly wrong.

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Both of those OOWs will be hung out to dry. Complete amateurs.

neris

from that video it looks like the freighter alters course to pass port to port but then the lng carrrier changes aswell but then does a turn to starboard straight into the freighter (although its easy to say that as dont know what the shipping lane/markers are)

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Little and Large!

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The view from the porthole

Markcheese

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Cool pic . What are the giant gantry things ,wings, sticking out each side.

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They are the bridge wings. It allows the ship to be manoeuvred in harbour with duplicate controls at either extremity.

Thargor

I never knew that thanks, never once seen it mentioned in all the documentaries Ive ever watched about ships, shipping, superships, superports etc either.

Cookie_Monster

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They are the bridge wings. It allows the ship to be manoeuvred in harbour with duplicate controls at either extremity.

these days would it not be considerably cheaper to simply mount camera (other sensor too?) systems on the ships extremities rather than build that much extra in?

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Cookie_Monster wrote: »

these days would it not be considerably cheaper to simply mount camera (other sensor too?) systems on the ships extremities rather than build that much extra in?

When the ship and cargo are worth tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars, it's a necessary expense. Manoeuvring via TV screens can be difficult due to depth perception issues and you would need a bank of cameras to to produce the same clarity a simple turn of the head can produce.

LiamoSail

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When the ship and cargo are worth tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars, it's a necessary expense. Manoeuvring via TV screens can be difficult due to depth perception issues and you would need a bank of cameras to to produce the same clarity a simple turn of the head can produce.

I entirely agree, however you're working on the assumption that a shipping company will make rational decisions.

The reason every ship has bridge wings is that it's a SOLAS requirement to be able to see the ships side from the bridge. It's a SOLAS requirement for the reasons outlined above

Bringing a ship alongside using cameras isn't practical as is detailed above. Additionally, cameras in saltwater environments are rarely reliable

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Another day at the office

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What is it they say; W.A.F.I.?

dball

Thargor

That gold colour is hideous but I suppose they're selling it to someone in the Middle East, still a great looking piece of engineering:

http://www.palmerjohnson.com/48m/

Cedrus

dball wrote: »

Thargor wrote: »

That gold colour is hideous but I suppose they're selling it to someone in the Middle East, still a great looking piece of engineering:

So close and yet so far, I agree that gold is not the best colour but it's the rectangular WINDOWS in the captains cabin that kill it for me, did they forget about them and had to get weatherglaze in the day before launch, did the budget run out or was the designer just spun out.

neris

Theres a program on next Sunday on channel 4 called Million Pound Yachts. If its anything like million pound property's prepare for crass, tacky, blinged up gin palaces. Money cant buy you taste.

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Those boys earned their keep that day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLSaA3pO6Bc

February 2012: Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov towed by the tug Nikolay Chiker after the aircraft carrier lost propulsion during a training exercise in the Bay of Biscay.

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Handbrake turn!

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High and dry