Don’t know anything about what happened yet other than it is an AML barge and that it is flooding in the stern. [Screenshot_20251118-161501_Facebook (1)]

[image] ombugge: I’m driving at the fact that in the Strait of Juan de Fuca there are compulsory pilotage and few groundings: Pilots embark and disembark at either Victoria or Port Angeles. The remaining majority of the Straits are transitted with only VTS coverage. There are few groundings…

[image] freighterman1: It was seldom a big deal until the rise of the internet and YouTube. The latter raises local news story to regional crisis overnight. The only crisis is that created by the Heiltsuk Nation’s jumping up and down screaming how their precious ancestral waters are being so …

[image] ombugge: No. I’m driving at the fact that in the Strait of Juan de Fuca there are compulsory pilotage and few groundings: The number of vessels on the SJDF exempt from pilotage greatly exceed the number of vessels that require it. Fishing vessels below 5000-tons (and that is nearly a…

Can’t remember what year it was, but there was that one foreign ship that missed the dogleg left turn and continued on until stopped by the beach. This was way before the pilot station, so he was operating all hobbledy-bobbledy and uncontrolled. Now we’re supposed to check in with traffic before t…

No. I’m driving at the fact that in the Strait of Juan de Fuca there are compulsory pilotage and few groundings It honestly would be pretty hard to run aground in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, especially given it has an established TSS for Eastbound/Westbound traffic. Any vessel of size that manages…

“Lots of ferries in Admiralty Inlet/Elliot Bay. No pilots on them.” First Class pilotage required

[image] Rock_Hill: It honestly would be pretty hard to run aground in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, especially given it has an established TSS for Eastbound/Westbound traffic. Haven’t the recent noteworthy incidents been to loss of propulsion which is a risk not readily mitigated by compulsory …

This is a great point! In fact you can look at the Bouchard grounding in Buzzards Bay (2003) as a pivotal event. As a result it was compulsory pilotage, 2 licensed personnel in the wheelhouse and an escort tug for anything moving more than 5000 bbls. Even now an escort is still required.

[image] KemalPamouk: Now we’re supposed to check in with traffic before the turn so they can make sure we’re awake. The southbound check in at Tide Point in Rosario is for the same reason (and doesn’t apply to piloted vessels). That came after a certain company ran a container barge into Bel…

The Centerline ATB was actually an HMS ATB at the time. The port pin of the Articoupler system had lost pressure which it had done at least twice before. These failures in that system were not properly addressed prior to the barge ejection South of Goose Islands. What is also not known to many is th…

Alaska to Seattle AML barge in trouble near Bella Bella BC

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Alaska to Seattle AML barge in trouble near Bella Bella BC

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