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Resulting in the breaching of five of her ballast tanks - experience feedback A large container ship was on a coastal passage in the South China Sea, an area well known for dense concentrations of fishing vessels. In the evening, in order to adjust the ETA at the destination port the following morning, the Master decided to stop and drift for an hour in open water before resuming passage at full speed.When the chief officer came on watch at 0400, accompanied by a lookout, he reviewed the charts to be used and noted the potential danger areas, including an isolated, unmarked reef, and highlighted it on the paper chart.The planned track avoided the reef by means of two sharp course alterations. By 0600, about an hour before these waypoints, a large concentration of randomly-moving fishing vessels was encountered, causing the chief officer to make a number of course alterations over the next hour.By this time, the vessel was approaching the most navigationally constrained part of the passage, in the vicinity of the off-lying islands and reef. The ship was making 21 knots and she was well off her intended track.The vessel's position had been plotted only twice between 0600 and ...

The waters of the mighty Danube are so low that dozens of cargo ships are stuck The waters of the mighty Danube are so low that dozens of cargo ships are stuck, stranded in ghostly fog or wedged into sand banks on what is normally one of eastern Europe's busiest transport routes.A lack of rain has triggered the worst drought in decades for this time of year, dropping river levels to record lows and sounding an alarm in parts of central and eastern Europe.Power supplies are running low in Serbia, drinking water shortages have hit Bosnia, and crop production is in jeopardy in Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. The Czech Republic is at its driest since records began in 1775.Meteorologists say they are not sure why the region has had far less rain than average since August - but they don't see any more coming quickly. That is bad news for shipping companies that are already reporting big losses."This is a disaster," said Branko Savic, the manager of a privately owned Danube shipping company in Serbia that he says is operating at only a third of its capacity. "Traffic on the Danube is practically nonexistent. . . We are in dire ...

A total of 87 containers fell overboard in bad weather - salvage operation continues A loaded cargo ship, described by salvage workers as a 'lame, dying, beast', is still clinging to a reef off the New Zealand coast, two months after running aground in the middle of the night on the captain's birthday.Cracked down the middle, listing 21 degrees and piled high with goods containers, the 47,230-tonne Rena creaks and groans as steel plates in its fractured hull grind against each other with the sea's constant swell, continuing to defy weeks of predictions that the vessel is about to break up.A salvage team is painstakingly removing the containers, which have hung over the edge, teetering in a gravity-defying manner since the ship hit the reef on October 5. Their progress is reported in a daily bulletin, which most recently confirmed that the Rena remains fragile, but intact.The job is highly dangerous. The 40-man salvage team from Dutch company Svitzer dice with death as they clamber at dizzying heights over the containers, attaching them to a crane to be hoisted onto an adjacent boat and taken ashore.The Liberian-registered Rena, manned by a 25-man Filipino crew, ran onto the Astrolabe Reef, 22 ...

They grounded after one of them collided with a fishing boat off Sarangani Nine Superferry vessels owned by the Negros Navigation-Aboitiz Transport System Corp. (Nenaco-ATSC) have been ordered grounded after one of them collided with a fishing boat off Sarangani on Friday, the Philippine Coast Guard said Saturday.PCG spokesperson Lt. Cmdr. Algier Ricafrente said a notice of "voyage suspension" was issued by the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) to Nenaco-ATC on the operations of MV Superferry 20, MV Superferry 1, MV Superferry 2, MV Superferry 5, MV Superferry 12, MV Superferry 21, MV Cebu Ferry 1, MV Cebu Ferry 2 and MV Cebu Ferry 3.Superferry 20 was involved in the collision with fishing boat San Jose Bayanihan in the vicinity of Barangay Tinoto, Maasim town, near the mouth of Sarangani Bay. The fishing boat was a total wreck and quickly sank. A member of the crew, Giovanni Buntong, 60, died after being hit on the head by floating debris.The fishing boat's captain and other five other crewmen were rescued by PCG personnel who were patrolling nearby. Vessel reinspectionAll the grounded Superferry vessels will be subjected to a reinspection and additional international safety management audit by a joint Marina and PCG team, ...

A container ship with 12 crew on board was only 20 meters from the grounding RS Simrad Buholmen, one of NSSR rescue boats, did an amazing job by preventing the much larger container ship "Pioneer Bay" to run aground.A container ship with 12 crew on board was only 20 meters from the grounding of Vågsfjorden in New Jersey on Friday. Both the helicopter and rescue boat pulled out."Simrad Buholmen", the smallest of the rescue boats, was the rescue of over a hundred meters long, "Pioneer Bay," which drove slowly towards the shore.The captain was afraid to start the engine again since they were only 20 meters from a shallow that the propellers could go down. First, we pushed them off the ground, and dragged our ship to deep water and safe, says Marius Stream, which is the ship's rescue boats.Source: Maritime Partner

There has not been reported inflow or injury so far Cargo ship ran aground during last night at rocks of the southeast area of Greek island, Syros. The cause is still unknown and there has not been reported inflow or injury.The Marshall Islands flag ship "Cafer Dede" , departed with a crew of 19 members from the area Aliagka Turkey, was bound for Salerno, Italy.Coast Guard hastened to the area for help . According to information so far, there is no risk for the crew.Photo of "Cafer Dede" ran aground at Syros Island

The front part of their ship collapsed, and water started to sip in Nine crew members of a cargo vessel were rescued by members of the Philippine Coast Guard when their ship ran aground off Calapan sea in Oriental Mindoro Friday evening, coastguard official said.Lieutenant Junior Grade Christopher Domingo identified the survivors as ship captain Diony Saludes and crew Chris Moral, Vladimir Ledesma, Reymar Sagun, Jun-Jun Belmonte, Joseph Cuato, Mark Anthony Clavio, Wilberto Alegria and Henry Dela Cruz.According to report, the victims were onboard the M/V Arayat heading toward Marinduque from Bulalacao town when the front part of their ship collapsed, and water started to sip in at around 8:00 p.m.Domingo said Saludes decided to bring his vessel in a shallow part of the sea, a few nautical miles away from Dumali Point in Pola, Oriental Mindoro."Pinasayad na lang niya ang barko nila para hindi tuluyang lumubog at masagip ang laman nito," Domingo told ABS-CBN News.He said the cargo vessel contains 1,500 sacks of salt and 50 sacks of pebbles.Domingo said the crew abandoned ship and boarded their service boat that drifted near Silonay Island."Hindi sila makalapit sa isla kasi sobrang lakas ng mga alon at malalaki ang bato ng ...

The accident happened outside the same port where MV Rena run aground A 135-metre container ship, the Schelde Trader, was refloated Friday after running aground on rocks at the entrance to Tauranga harbour, on the east coast of the North Island, news reports said.The accident happened outside the same port where the 47,000-ton Rena grounded on a reef nearly a month ago, spilling 350 tons of oil which polluted beaches and killed 1,335 seabirds.Salvage workers are still trying to remove the rest of the Rena's heavy fuel oil before the ship, which is cracked in the middle and listing 22 degrees, breaks up on the reef, 22 kilometres offshore.The Schelde Trader was leaving the port when it lost power and grounded. It was refloated by tugs and anchored outside the harbour, news reports said. There was no sign of an oil spill.Source: M&C

No oil was spilled during the event and no one was injured An Australian naval vessel has helped prevent what authorities say could have been a maritime disaster off Papua New Guinea.Australia's Defence Department says a container ship, MV Vega Fynen, lost engine power and was drifting towards a charted reef 100 nautical miles south-east of Port Moresby early on Monday.After receiving a call for help from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, the patrol boat HMAS Broome, based in Darwin, northern Australia, raced 146 miles to help the stricken ship.The Defence Department says the crew towed the 13,000 tonne vessel south and back into deeper waters.Lord Howe IslandThe patrol boat crew have been praised by authorities in Port Moresby for averting an environmental castastropheElsewhere off the Australian coast, a ship that ran aground in the harbour at Lord Howe Island has been cleared to return to service.The 485-tonne MV Island Trader grounded after unloading its cargo eight days ago on the east coast island but was refloated on the evening high tide on Monday.No oil was spilled during the event and no one was injured.Source: Radio Australia News

No injuries were reported SEATTLE - Debris from the 50-foot fishing vessel New York has washed ashore on the beach north of the Coos Bay entrance near North Bend, Ore., Oct. 23, 2011. Coast Guard pollution investigators have responded to the incident. No injuries were reported. U.S. Coast Guard photo.SEATTLE - The Coast Guard is responding to a pollution incident on the beach just north of the Coos Bay entrance near North Bend, Ore., Sunday.The 50-foot fishing vessel New York ran aground on the beach shortly after reporting that the vessel was taking on water at approximately 5:30 a.m.Coast Guard Station Coos Bay in Charleston, Ore., launched a 47-foot motor life boat and Group Air Station North Bend in North Bend, Ore., launched an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter to respond. The helicopter crew attempted to hoist the three fishermen on board but was unable to because of the vessel's instability due to the surf. The fisherman eventually swam ashore on their own.The helicopter crew landed on the beach, picked up the fisherman and transferred them to awaiting EMS at Group Air Station North Bend.The vessel's captain later reported that approximately 300 gallons of diesel, 15 gallons of hydraulic oil and 1/2 ...