Big boat crash

[U4]

Spotted this on the Sealine forum so though I would share it on here..

Really strange, it looks like the Hapag-Lloyd boat turns in to him

 

[Norman_E]

An odd one indeed. At first the Hapag-Lloyd ship was overtaking, but my surmise is that they had a pilot on board who ordered a turn to port to avoid shallows, and the ship could not be slowed enough to let the other one (which probably had less draught) pass ahead. It does look as if the Hapag-Lloyd ship slowed as it turned.

 

[Trundlebug]

Too many sherries is my guess.

Hapag Lloyd clearly on manual steering and all over the place, going too fast.
No attempt to slow down until he'd hit it.

Probably drunk as a skunk.

 

[jonnybuoy]

From an industry publication:

"From the following AIS replay of the incident, it appears the Colombo Express was attempting to overtake the Maersk Tanjong and when a left rudder was applied to come back to a parallel course, the rudder went hard left.

As rudders on ships like this are powered by large, finely tuned hydraulic systems, it is possible that the this system failed and was the cause of the incident"

 

[[2068]]

I'm assuming there aren't any cabins in the bow?

 

[sailorman]

Spotted this on the Sealine forum so though I would share it on here..

Really strange, it looks like the Hapag-Lloyd boat turns in to him

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?409725-Container-Ships-Crash-in-Suez-Canal

 

[Sdpaddler50]

Wow amazing video. our school training ship (600 ft converted bulk carrier) lost its steering gear heading down the Columbia River in Oregon back in the 80's. this can can be a trecherous place with high wind and waves. I was not on watch in the ER, but I believed they had a complete failure and had to drop the anchor. same reason why war ships have their anchors sticking out and ready to deploy coming down channels.

 

[lpdsn]

GCaptain reported it as a failure of the hydraulic steering system.