Tag: rogue wave

Lomar Shipping's container vessel Kea Trader, which had ran aground on a reef off New Caledonia on July 12, developed a crack, resulting in the vessel being split in half. The crack along the vessel's hull was caused due to this weekend's inclement weather on the Durand Reef.

A new prediction tool developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them with enough time to shut down essential operations on a ship or offshore platform.

The 186-metre cargo ship Dry Beam is moored at Ogden Point The 186-metre cargo ship Dry Beam is moored at Ogden Point in Victoria, its massive vertical support beams bent like matchsticks and its load of logs shoved askew by a rogue wave on the North Pacific.The vessel was en route to Japan from Washington state Thursday night about 480 kilometres off northern Vancouver Island, when it ran into trouble, lost some logs and issued a mayday call.A rogue wave had pummelled the ship's left, or port, side and caused many of the raw logs on the deck to shift toward the starboard side.None of the 23 Filipino crew aboard the 26,000-ton vessel was hurt. The damaged vessel limped into port in Victoria on Sunday.The wave that slammed into the port side was 10 to 15 metres high, said Capt. Jostein Hoddevik, principal surveyor with IMS Marine Surveyors of Burnaby, B.C. He said there is little the crew could have done to avoid the wave.The incident occurred in an area of the north Pacific that's notorious for punishing seas, he said. The vessel was in the wrong place at the wrong time, he added.Cargo vessels are damaged by waves like ...

10 crew on board Brigitte Bardot Anti-whaling activists chasing the Japanese harpoon fleet suffered a major setback Thursday when the hull of one of their ships cracked in massive seas and a second had to divert to its rescue.The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said the Brigitte Bardot's hull split when it was struck by a "rogue wave" as it tailed the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru in six metre (20-foot) swells some 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometres) southwest of Australia."The crack has been getting wider as the seas continue to pound the vessel," the activist group said.Sea Shepherd spokesman Paul Watson said lead vessel the Steve Irwin was en route to the troubled Brigitte Bardot, which has also suffered severe damage to one of its pontoons, but warned it would take 20 hours to get there.The Bardot's captain, South African-born Jonathan Miles Renecle, was "confident that the ship will stay afloat until the Steve Irwin arrives" he added."This is disappointing but these are hostile seas and we have always been prepared for situations like this," Watson said."Right now the safety of my crew on the Brigitte Bardot is our priority and we intend to reach the crew and then do what ...