Bulker sinking in SIngapore Anchorage - Today

[Adrianli]

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[KapitanE]

That's not a bulker, its a general cargo vessel, looks like fitted with heavy cranes... or what is know as a heavy lifter.. which anchorage,?? Eastern??

 

 

Edited April 23, 2009 by KapitanE

[Try_conti]

ooh .... hope it won't pollute the waters too badly .....

[Rickster]

Thats bad...wonder will the details be on the news.

[Furrynadz]

pwnage

[Sabian]

 

Are the crew rescued?

[Bystander50]

coz of the never seen before strong winds last night???

 

[KapitanE]

Ok, I can see it from my office, she's a goner....

 

 

[Adrianli]

Around eastern anchorage. This was taken from Binoculars. I dont have details.

[KapitanE]

  On 4/23/2009 at 9:16 AM, Adrianli said:

Around eastern anchorage. This was taken from Binoculars. I dont have details.

 

I can see from my office too,... from your angle, you are probably at CPF Building that side

[Thug]

  On 4/23/2009 at 9:18 AM, KapitanE said:

I can see from my office too,... from your angle, you are probably at CPF Building that side

 

Wah...like this also can tell....lol

 

Is it the fault of our port?

Or some technical fault?

No news yet?

[Silver_blade]

Looks bad. Will take some time to get it out.

[Furrynadz]

get out?

i think game over already

 

[KapitanE]

It is not as bad as it look, there's plenty of time for them to evacuate... probably 3/4 of them are gone, I could see two salvage vessels around, the port authority boat is also alongside.... it would be hours before the ship sink completely ... even as she sink, the sailors could still stay on until the very last moment, it happened before on another incident...... believe water has not gone into the engine room, only into the cargo hold, still plenty of inherent buoyancy...

Edited April 23, 2009 by KapitanE

[Pcslim]

Wonder what makes it sink? Din see any smoke from the pics so might not be coz of fire. Singapore waters quite calm also.

[Shorty]

alamak.how can this happen? few mths ago there was a vsl which i tink was on the brink of sinkinh...but they managed to repair it.ard espa i tink.

[Xiao_bai77]

I believe is the center cargo hold, water got in which result in the sinking.

Maybe the water ingress alarm system faulty.

[Terence_oh]

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP20891

 

Freight ship grounded off Singapore after collision

Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:51am EDT

 

SINGAPORE, April 23 (Reuters) - An Iranian-flagged freight ship was aground on Thursday after colliding with a container ship in the busy shipping lanes off Singapore, the port authority said. The ship, carrying a cargo of maize and on its way to Vietnam when it struck an Indonesian-flagged container vessel outside Singapore port's waters late on Wednesday, was towed to shallow waters to avoid sinking. The container ship carried on its way. Singapore is the world's busiest container port and the world's top fuel bunkering port, and the city-state's trade is more than three times the size of its gross domestic product.

 

There were no casualties but the freight ship's cargo hold was damaged and had to have water pumped out. The ship could be seen lying very low in the water from buildings overlooking the port.

 

"It's in a stable condition -- it will have to be moved," a spokeswoman from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said, adding the cause of the collision, the only one this year, was being investigated. (Reporting by Neil Chatterjee; Editing by Alex Richardson)