This is a bulk carrier. Notice how there are bo containers or anything on it.
This is because this ship is essentially an empty vessel with 5 big rooms rhat tou are supposed to fill up with bulk. Not, boxes, containers, gas or whatever. But bulk.
Like grains, iron ore, sand, shit like that.
This thing can carry its own weight in shit. Imagine stacking a car upon your own car.
Now what is specific with these ships, is how careful you need to be when you load it up with shit.
Load it up the wrong way, you crack it.
Imagine a ship with 5 big holes and you only fill up two of them. The weight distribution alone fucks it up.
That and it looks like they're riding too high, if it's not loaded heavy enough they're supposed to fill the ballast tanks so it sits low in the water during heavy seas. If it's too high the hull works too hard and can crack a plate.
And I don't know what kind of deception they're going for with this cropped video, but the normal format shows 2 other ships in its immediate vicinity.
It's not really a seaworthy vessel, is the main problem. Mostly meant for going up and down rivers, and maybe a brief fair weather coastal trip. It didn't stand a chance at sea in those conditions, no matter how it was loaded. Just not made to handle that.
Apparently 6 of the 12 crew lost their lives to this, even though other ships were nearby.
keels are good for @30-35 years of service. ships I’ve been attached to would shake like dogs shitting peach pits in foul seas, they were showing their age. guessing these guys donned vests and headed for the life boats. somebody wiser than me said: “worse things happen at sea.”
The advice I was always given was to stay with the vessel as long as possible before abandoning, on the basis that it's rarely going to be safer in a liferaft. "You should step up to the liferaft, not down."
Not sure if that applies to really huge ships like that though. They can generate weird suction events and regions of low buoyancy as they go down.
Exactly how the Edmund Fitzgerald went down 50miles from my place. The gap in the waves leaves a boyancy void ergo a cantilever situation with no structural support for the length of the ship beyond it's (wave) fulcrum.
I think they were, it was just the high perspective made them looks small. Look at how much the horizon pitches during the video, and how high the bows are thrown when the forward section breaks off.
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This is because this ship is essentially an empty vessel with 5 big rooms rhat tou are supposed to fill up with bulk. Not, boxes, containers, gas or whatever. But bulk.
Like grains, iron ore, sand, shit like that.
This thing can carry its own weight in shit. Imagine stacking a car upon your own car.
Now what is specific with these ships, is how careful you need to be when you load it up with shit.
Load it up the wrong way, you crack it.
Imagine a ship with 5 big holes and you only fill up two of them. The weight distribution alone fucks it up.
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[ - ] Antiliberalsociety 8 points 2.8 yearsAug 7, 2021 16:43:35 ago (+8/-0)*
Edit: A ship's captain explains at 16:30,
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cFiF5LUsi1A
Also, mirror & expanded version:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7nFgPLRY2jc
And I don't know what kind of deception they're going for with this cropped video, but the normal format shows 2 other ships in its immediate vicinity.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gndJzdOQMXY
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Even loading/unloading this ship incorrectly can result in major damage.
[ + ] GloryBeckons
[ - ] GloryBeckons 3 points 2.8 yearsAug 7, 2021 18:08:06 ago (+3/-0)
Apparently 6 of the 12 crew lost their lives to this, even though other ships were nearby.
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Every time you enter the sea personally, there's a good chance you don't leave it. Man overboard is no joke.
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Now there's a turn of phrase.
The advice I was always given was to stay with the vessel as long as possible before abandoning, on the basis that it's rarely going to be safer in a liferaft. "You should step up to the liferaft, not down."
Not sure if that applies to really huge ships like that though. They can generate weird suction events and regions of low buoyancy as they go down.
[ + ] drunkenst
[ - ] drunkenst 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 8, 2021 07:59:00 ago (+1/-0)
can’t say 4 sure as haven’t been thru similar disaster.
it wuz OHP said “Don’t give up the ship” IIRC.
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