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How bad of a Captain do you have to be to keep going in circles?
Oh, I could have simply shutdown the engine?I wondered the same thing, WTF, shut it down and call for help. This makes me wonder, just how much control over these ships do these captains have?
Better to be under power than not. With the engine shut down you are at the mercy of the winds and the waves; and this is the North Sea.Add to that the fact that container ships are rather top heavy.
As opposed to going in circles? No, they are not top heavy, if they were, they'd be belly up at the slightest wind/wave.
IF the ship is fully loaded they are indeed top heavy. Much like the Japanese heavy ships were in WW2.
and clearly you know nothing about what happens when a ship lies to as it is called and is without propulsion.
It's obvious you know absolutely zero about the shipping container industry!These ships are loaded in such a manner that the heaviest containers are loaded first, the lightest last. If they were top heavy as you claim, they'd be rolling over constantly, and the fact that they aren't, exposes your ignorance.Were you attempting to say something intelligent? You failed miserably!
So you work for the container industry? Explains a lot.
No, I understand hydrology and how it applies to the physical world!
...and I've swamped canoes, rubber rafts, sail boats, row boats, power boats & recovered every one of them! We had to do that on purpose, annually, so the WSI (water safety instructors), had practice if such an event occurred. A little bit of buoyancy goes a long way, surface tension & cohesion of water is an amazing thing.
Yep, literally grew up alongside water, diving in the pacific every weekend for abalone near Monterey, or Dori fishing, salvage etc.I won't list all the craft I lost in all those years to my ignorance of boiling.
Like you, we've probably been out in some pretty nasty stuff - not as bad as the North Sea, with the threat of hypothermia if you get dunked!A little less braver now, than I was before ... I'd never shoot some of those rapids & falls on those rivers, at my age, even with the extra floatation around my midsection!If i were on that container ship, with a stuck rudder, I would have been calling "Mayday!" after the 3rd loop. Try a few tricks to free it, but, 25 loops...?
Yep, the rivers in my area are literally melted snow. Dive in, come up and take a breath and your throat is closed from the cold. People die out here every year because they think they can handle cold water, Russians get taken regularly because they do the cold dunk in ice water, but when the current is moving along at 25 MPH, one has to struggle to stay afloat.Yeah, 25 circles is literally the epitome of insanity, repeating stupidity, it's bound to work....eventually.
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Topic: Dutch Containership with Stuck Rudder Does Circles in North Sea -AIS (Read 252 times)
