The NCL Salten, a Norwegian-operated container ship capable of carrying 886 twenty foot containers (or the equivalent thereof) ran aground in the early hours of Thursday morning after it had entered the Trondheim fjord. The ship had sailed from Averøy on Bremsnesfjorden on Norway’s Atlantic coast the previous day on coastal trade.
The Salten may be relatively small by container ship standards — the largest carry the equivalent of over 24,000 twenty foot containers — but it dwarfed its new neighbour after coming to rest on the shore. After failing to make its turn, and Norwegian police say they are investigating whether this was technical malfunction or human error, the ship ended up directly alongside a small water-front home.
The householder Johan Helberg told them the ship coming to rest on his property had not awoken him, but rather the knock of a neighbour to check in on him did. He said: “I went to the window and was quite astonished to see a big ship…I had to bend my neck to see the top of it. It was so unreal.”
The Daily Mail states: “It is understood the same vessel has run aground three times previously within the last three years.”
A miss is as good as a mile.
ReplyDeleteIt's all Johan's by right of salvage.
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It's got to be Diversity in action all across the world.
ReplyDelete…and so it goes on, the continuing de-evolution and regression of what was a once competent Western Civilization.
ReplyDelete“B-b-but it was probably an accident!”
Uncreative Hollywood writers are already working on "Speed 3: The Norwegian Farm Assault."
ReplyDeleteSo, once upon a time I was on a tramp tow pushing 1000ft of barges in Matagorda bay when the Captain woke me up and told he needed me on the head of the tow ( I was just barely a deck mate on a tramp tow back then).
ReplyDeleteI run out to the head to find that our pilot in the dead of night had dropped out of the channel and was heading straight for one of those fishing shacks on pylons. Captain woke up and took over immediately when we were woke from a dead sleep by the engines being thrown into full reverse.
1/4 mile out onto the head of the tow though all you could hear was the lapping of the water against the bow rake on the lead empty. It was well under control when I arrived on scene, so there was nothing to do but watch and stand there with my radio in case something went wrong.
Now the fun part. I'm standing over the center cavel looking down at the hut when I saw the bathroom light pop on. I stood there a full minute watching the shoulders of a dude in red long johns standing by the bathroom window while I assume he was half awake using the john.
Then he turned and look right at our rake. I watched as his face screwed up in panic and terror, and he turned and ran straight out the front door to my port side and jumped into a little jon boat.
I watched for another full minute as he desperately pulled at the outboard starter rope in a rapid cartoon like motion in a panicked attempt to start his boat!
It must have dawned on him we were moving backwards from his hut, because stopped and turned and looked dead at me in exhaustion and relief.
I shot him wave, "morning!"
He never said a word, got of his boat, walked back into the hut back into the bathroom pooped the light off and I guess went back to bed.
One of my better memories of my brief time on the 'mighty' M/V Coleville!
“Pooped the light off”?!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteWell, there it is - they're just saving a little money on their annual dry docking inspection.
Does he get salvage rights.
ReplyDeleteDaily Mail is onto something...
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