The giant Bulk carrier Wakashio run aground in Mauritius on the way from China to Brasil: [image] Giant bulk carrier runs aground on reef off Mauritius - Splash 247 A giant bulk carrier ran aground on a reef off Mauritius on Saturday evening, despite warnings from the local coast guard t…

A tug is already hooked up on the bow in case it breaks loos and drifts off.

[IMG_6310] See the video. [La ‘fissure’ du MV Wakashio vue de prés]

[image] Binbag_the_Saylore: Good article from Forbes (via Twitter) https://www.forbes.com/sites/nishandegnarain/2020/08/09/how-satellites-traced-the-fateful-journey-of-the-ship-that-led-to--mauritius-worst-oil-spill-disaster/amp/?__twitter_impression=true Shows heading of 243 - which is a sing…

[image] Quimby: Possibly another gps DR mode scenario such as the Royal Majesty incident off Nantucket I.? Could be a lot of things but the ECDIS upgrade of that error is my guess. ECDIS track-line error and no “route check” done. Also possibly contour setting were wrong.

Looking out the window may have helped.

Aground at 1600 UTC, would have been about 2 hrs after sunset.

So, 22 or so miles away can’t see land? And in that 22 miles after sunset and making way cannot see the lights on the beach? Not looking out the window and ignoring radio calls warning them off doesn’t make that bridge team very credible. And yes, as bug relayed, going out on the wing as you were ne…

It seems that the ship was at least a few hundred miles off course to the north. Any handheld GPS device would have shown the position coordinates that didn’t make sense on that voyage. It is hard to think of an explanation for the vessel to be in that location. Ships of that size don’t call into…

The ship was en route China to Brazil via Cape of Good Hope. [Singapore_C oGH]

Given the navigational expertise demonstrated I’m still wondering how the hell they made it through Singapore Strait.

Giant bulker Wakashio aground on reef off Mauritius

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