Speaking of running aground:
PS> Maybe clear view from the wheelhouse windows would have helped?
Biggest issue , if the crew is staying aboard, is how to run the generators. Use air cooled emergency generator all the time?
Humber river mud is very sticky. Was sitting on the ground at berth in New Holland several times.
Ever Forward aground near Baltimore - #156 by spowiednick
H&S WISDOM, General cargo vessel, IMO 9195559 | Vessel details | BalticShipping.com
From her summer draft description and draft reported by Marine traffic it looks she was loaded.
Is it flat bottomed, like a barge?
Yes it is.
The Old Man appears to have followed the golden rule though;
Never run aground with your anchors in the hawse pipes.
Don’t know if that is the case here, but many ships of this size/type is set up to use ballast water for cooling when sitting dry in ports with large tidal difference.
Cooling water is circled from/to one or more ballast tanks while the tide is out.
More detailed specs:
We do the same with some of our boats in Bristol Bay ports.
Ah, so they dropped the anchors after she was aground and drifting astern?
Or, here’s a thought, mechanical failure, dropped both hooks, overran them and then drifted astern on the ebb.
I can’t be arsed to see what the tide was doing at the time.
I will not cross swords but i am betting 
: 1. my version 80%
2. your version 20%.
But i will bet 100% there is not even 1 shackle (27.5 m) on the winch yet. ( 1 white-kenter-1 white)
Letting go 2 anchors with such precision in surely a stresfull situation is a feat worthy of magician -exactly same length ???
Man!!! I like bedtime stories but not this one.
Any way I do admire your belief in " human goodness "
The picture as far as i am concerned is " too good, too perfect " to be true. But may be You are right 20%
Famous scribler for Splash247 Andrew Craig Bennett replied once to me : do not be naive WE ALL LIE IN SHIPPING
Letting go one or both anchors at depth of 1 foot UKC or about may cost You ripped bottom and a dry dock bill.
Wonder why they do not calculate the pressure on the ground at the highest water , apply some reasonable factor for friction /suction or watever and try to figure the force ( abt) required to pull her off at HW. It is not a rocket science.
Disconecting anchors and using both chains for pulling is not impossible task either. But then this would be like salvage and cost a lot . So they may stay 3 weeks waiting for HHW or for some ORKAN that will push enough water into the river. We will see.
The Snowbird had the same set-up, generator cooling water could be routed through a ballast tank.
Many of the Landingcrafts and some tugs are able to use water in a ballast tank to cool the generator, at least for awhile, when the boat goes dry.
I’ve also seen a handful of boats that had a radiator as well as a keel cooler on one generator.
So is that pumping the same water in and out or is it running through an intercooler?
Beautiful job, beautiful video, thx for linking.
