[image] Livestock carrier in load with 43 crew missing. UPDATES 2 rescued 2 dead –... Looks like we just had another El Faro. It is hard to believe, that Master missed typhoon on converging track with ship’s route, or disregarded typhoon as a threat. Maybe Mas…

In the original configuration as a container ship the sail area would be roughly the same, the conversion not relevant in that regard. The difference is the risk of the cargo shifting.

Ah, the dreaded free cattle moment :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: I would expect the spec to call for pens that stay intact in heavy weather, but you never know… I realize that animal welfare isn’t everybody’s foremost concern in this case, but taking a loaded livestock carrier to the edge of its …

Photos of the ship clearly show, as expected, open grating type arrangement of sides of pens above main deck level, which is fairly high up. This allows for better airflow. Otherwise, it is suffocating on these ships … even WITH this open air arrangement. Further, I do not know what the routine pra…

Pigs are even worse. Of all live animals exports.

I watched a show a couple years back about increased shark attacks on humans in the Red Sea. Turns out it was sheep carriers en route from Australia to the Middle East that were dumping dead animals in transit and drawing sharks to the swimming areas that were reporting increased attacks.

Amazing footage onboard of the decks awash [image] New footage emerges of missing Kiwi aboard livestock ship the day before it... The footage shows water flooding the deck as a man is heard saying “really safe, really, really safe.”

Do not the countries importing these poor animals have the ability to breed them? Sick fucks that participate in this trade.

Water on deck with nowhere to go… what could go wrong? If things were that bad in relatively calm seas, I get that they were “a bit worried about the weather” as per the quote in an earlier article. This thing gets crazier the more we get to know.

[image] Captain's texts in final moments as capsized livestock ship sailed straight... The Fillipino man messaged his partner to say he was praying the storm would pass. Then the boat flipped. According to one rescued crew member, the missing ship stalled when an…

Here’s the Reuters article that the stuff.co.nz article is based on: [image] 'I am praying': captain's texts tell of ordeal of capsized cattle ship The last time Marielle June Chunanon heard from her partner Dante Addug aboard the storm-struck Gulf Livestock 1, he told her he was fright…

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Amazing footage onboard of the decks awash

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Livestock Carrier Missing off Japan

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