Car carrier aground in the Solent

[Rob]

I am sure you have all seen the news.

 

What's interesting for me is the change of direction the ship took.

 

Below is an AIS track of the ship, looks like it made an intentional turn on to the bank.

 

Maybe it was going down?

 

Steering failure turned it to port?

 

[Brian]

Or engine failure?

[Rob]

Maybe Brian with a NE wind and flooding tide!

[budgie]

Comments from another web site:

 

"...the vessel never suffered any loss of propulsion or steerage nor was it any kind of pilot or navigational error. Early indications are that poor ballast/bunker tank management could be to blame. A large amount of bunker fuel was allowed to drain from the port side over to starboard at the moment the vessel was negotiating the turn to port around the west bramble cardinal buoy. This, combined with slack ballast tanks caused the vessel to take on a very pronounced list to starboard.

...she had made a full 180 degree turn round to port and was listing at approx 50 degrees. The pilot deliberately beached the car carrier in an effort to avoid a potential capsize situation.
...it's important to stress how calm and collected the pilot remained throughout the whole incident. He was the last person to be airlifted off the stricken vessel and deserves the utmost respect for his behaviour".

[Rob]

The ship has re floated today on the high tide, I saw it from Warsash today, it's huge!!!

 

They are making very slow progress to Portsmouth as the ship is still at 45degrees!!

 

Progress is .6kn according to the track of one of the tugs:

 

[Bramble banker]

What app are you using for tracking the ais rob? G

 

 

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[Rob]

Marine Traffic app marinetraffic.com

 

[Bramble banker]

 

 

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