There is that term "Partially floated "again.
HAH!
Here we go again…
fine, then too fast with a strong wind astern leaving zero time to be able to react to the head falling off.
Their words, not mine!
Yes.
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As a Captain, I transited Suez Canal (unfortunately I would say) in ballast with ULCC and VLCC’ s and i full agree with your analysis.
In my 40 years at sea I have never sailed on a ship that didn’t run both steering pumps whilst manoeuvring.
It is quite simple to calculate the vertical grounding force (tons) of any ship running up on land in, e.g. a canal like Ever Given just did on Tuesday in the Suez Canal. You only have to note the ship’s drafts fwd, mid ship, aft, P&S before and after the grounding. When I inspect ships, I always note down these important figures. Unfortunately I haven’t seen any M/S Ever Given drafts marks anywhere on the hull, but I will assist anyway. Say that the ship’s displacement changed 200 tons per centimeter at loading. Ever Given then went up on land in the canal and trimmed say 6 meters on the stern according to the draft marks. But mean draft after grounding maybe indicated a loss off mean draft of only 5 cm, i.e. 1000 tons disappeared! How? Those 1000 tons is the force that the damaged, grounded ship today applies on the canal ground. The ship’s engine can only apply a force of say 100 tons, so it cannot pull it off the ground. Tugs? Pulling 1000 tons? No way. The ship is thus stuck. It must be off loaded!
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Boskalis CEO: “If all goes well, the Suez Canal ship will be open after the weekend”
If all goes well, the large container ship Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal could be under way again after the weekend. This is what Peter Berdowski of dredging company and maritime services provider Boskalis said on television program Nieuwsuur. Boskalis is on site with its subsidiary Smit Salvage to assist with the salvage of the 400-meter-long vessel. According to the Taiwanese container shipping company Evergreen that operates the cargo ship, the colossus went off course due to a power outage and / or poor visibility as a result of a dust storm with gusts of wind at a speed of about 40 knots. That equates to wind force 9.
Berdowski hopes the plan will work, but otherwise there is also an alternative that is also being worked on. A crane is set up on land that can retrieve containers from the front of the ship. Then that part of the ship would lighten and lift a little more, making it easier to get it free. If necessary, up to six hundred containers could be removed.
The Ever Given ran aground on Tuesday morning in the southern part of the Suez Canal. Since then it has been so transverse to the navigation channel that the channel in Egypt is blocked for other ships. This affects global transport flows. The Canal accounts for about 12 percent of world trade. Nearly $ 10 billion worth of goods are transported through the canal every day.
An attempt to refloat the ship failed on Friday. A new attempt will be made this weekend. Two additional tugs are expected at Ever Given on March 28, according to a report on the website of the maritime service provider from Hamburg. "A specialized sand dredger, capable of moving 2000 cubic meters of material per hour, has been on site since Thursday to support the ongoing dredging work. Agreements are also being made on the use of high-capacity pumps to extract water from the forward ballast tanks and the bow thruster compartment ".
The question was, among other things, whether the cargo ship should have been allowed to leave in view of the strong wind. Two minutes after the collision, a sailing ban was announced on the Elbe because of the wind. The investigation showed that the strong winds from the southwest had promoted the collision. In addition, the suction pulled the stern of the cargo ship to the bank of the Elbe.
When the Ever Given ran aground, two pilots were on board in addition to the captain. "Initial survey results indicate that the ship ran aground due to high winds and rule out a mechanical or engine problem. There have been no reports of contamination or damage to the cargo. All 25 crew members are safe and in good health. They are of Indian nationality and will remain on board. They work closely with all parties involved. The hard work and tireless professionalism of the captain and crew is greatly appreciated, ”said the maritime service provider.
Strong winds also played tricks on the ship in the port of Hamburg in February 2019. Local residents saw and filmed how the container giant got off course and rammed a ferry moored at the ferry station with its stern. The 27-year-old skipper was slightly injured, two other crew members were able to get to safety just in time. The damage to the ferry amounted to about 1 million euros. The Public Prosecution Service started an investigation against the captain of the container giant and the pilot who was traveling along. They are suspected of endangering shipping traffic.
I have no idea what ships you sailed on but they were definitely not the same ones I sailed, or were involved with. It wasn’t until relatively recent times that I dealt with Rolls Royce units that allowed both pumps to be run simultaneously. Prior to that it was either one or the other but not both. BUT even under those circumstances the sources of power are not split. If a blackout occurs they both will suffer a loss of power until either power is restored by the ship’s generators or the emergency generator starts for the one on the emergency bus.
I will add the the types of ships I am referring to are ones of the larger variety.
Good news of this MS Ever Given mysterious grounding in the Suez Canal early 23 March morning is that four days later nobody has died, no ship has sunk and no money has been lost. Only the canal is blocked causing a lot of delays. Plenty salvage companies have been hired to salvage something. But what? Aha, the salvage companies shall dislodge/remove the SHIP blocking the canal! Have they done similar things before? No! What else? A sand dredger has been put on site by someone to remove sand? But you don’t salvage a grounded SHIP on a solid rock bottom by removing sand! Why cannot all these clowns calm down and send down a diver to have a look underwater of the grounding?
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Horrible collateral damage. 20 ships with animals are stuck in the Suez Canal. Circumstances are awful. Animals are packed together, in their own shit, on their way to slaughterhouses. I still remember the Gulf Livingstone which was lost with 42 crew and 6000 cows…
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I have followed John Konrad’s blog posts on this incident and, it is pretty obvious he is broadcasting to people who don’t know anything about ships. I have a few crticisms which I raise because they are basics/
In the latest video he mixes up deadweight and displacement, and the increase in weight between a 10,000 TEU ship of 10 years ago when compared to 18000 TEU Ever Given is 400% not 400 times. But it isn;t even 400%, it was because of the mixup between deadweight and displacement. Actual increase will be less than 100% assuming containers are the same weight
He also stated the ship wwas doing 13 knots. Never. Speed in the Suez Canal is limited to 13 kph or about 8 knots and is strictly controlled. Pilots can be dismissed for speeding.
I calculated that sssuming the ship was in the centre of the canal when the squall blew, they had less than 50 seconds to correct the vessel’s swing, but I learned today the vessel swung to port first and then to starboard and so that sounds to me like massive over correction by the helmsman which they were unable to stop
Large ships have to transit the canal with escort tugs, the largest have to have 2 tugs. The canal authority often cancels one tug if the number of vessels due to transit is high, in order to avoid deelaying a lucrative large ship. As it is, the tugs are useless. They are not made fast and they do their own thing, a casual cruise up the canal every day, minding their own business. They are small, perhaps 4000 HP tugs, standard Japanese port type and would not have been able to stop this accident even if they had been made fast.
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Latest news this morning (Egypt time):
https://lethagencies.com/news/89/100/Suez-Canal-Latest-update
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Er, the canal is sand. That’s why they have dredgers working all the time to stop the sand build up. As fast as they pump it ashore, the wind blows it back
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I see that you have learned quickly that Heiwa is a complete utterly obtuse moron who is nothing more than a cockroach infesting this place.
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Did it swing to port or did the ship just wander over that way? Could it have sheared off the port side bank? The bank is not so steep on the stbd side so maybe less bank cushion on that side.
In that situation the pilot should be using helm commands not courses so not necessarily an error by the helmsman.
The pilot may have goosed it because of the wind or for better response.