Hoegh Osaka aground on Bramble Bank

http://www.islandecho.co.uk/news/hoe...daytime-photos

"Hoegh Osaka ran aground on The Solent off the Island’s coastline, prompting a major rescue operation to save 25 crews members and a pilot on board the stricken vessel."

"Island Echo understands a mechanical malfunction could be to blame for the incident, with a hard port steer engaged"

"UPDATE @ 10:10 – Ships are now able to enter and leave the Port of Southampton, with a number of large container ships having successfully passed the Hoegh Osala this morning."
 
Picked up elsewhere:-

"...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 bouy. 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".
 
that would explain the rudder being hard over to starboard trying to counter the turning to port .
Ru88ell said:
Picked up elsewhere:-

"...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 bouy. 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".
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Hopefully they do manage to refloat her soon, some bad weather coming in towards the back end of next week, for 9 and possibly force 10 gusts if Windfinder is to be believed
 
From the above post it seems like the pilot has let her roll onto the bank in order to save a potential capsize from the pics shown this morning at high tide it doesn't look that it will be re floated any time soon unless they can physically pull her back upright and with potentially a thousand cars inside the centre of gravity is not going to be in there favour,hopefully the vehicles are secured but I guess they are secured for rough seas not being at 45 deg for prolonged periods
 
Ru88ell said:
Picked up elsewhere:-

"...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 bouy. 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".
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a friend who was in cowes and witnessed from the shore / listened on VHF said exactly what you just did and said tugs were deliberately pushing her hard aground. They did that alright, I saw hew at the top of a 4m tide today and she wasn't about to float off.

He recons the beaching motivation was to stop her capsizing and blocking the main channel. Thinking about it this would shut southampton for months so they have probably considered this scenario in detail in advance.

Even so, you have to say, hats off to all involved. Tough call.
 
The live press conference seems to back up what I put in #25. The Master and Pilot colluded to put her on the bank to avoid a capsize. It's going to take quite some time to salvage, but at least the Port of Southampton remains open in the meantime. Had she capsized that may not have been the case.

[edit] Elessar posted pretty much what I said just before I posted.
 
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in a huge moany thread about this on scuttlebut, this interesting contribution to the discussion was posted. Copyright the snail.

l'escargot said:
Interesting report here about the "Cougar Ace" that seems to have gone over in a similar fashion but without the convenience of a nearby sandbank to be beached on: http://www.caranddriver.com/features/cougar-ace-the-great-103-million-snafu-at-sea The subsequent disposal of the cars is an interesting read too...

And an article about the technicalities of righting her: http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys?currentPage=all
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[edit] oops sorry snail you beat me to it - should have put it here first the scuttlebut one is a moanfest!
 
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Elessar said:
He recons the beaching motivation was to stop her capsizing and blocking the main channel. Thinking about it this would shut southampton for months so they have probably considered this scenario in detail in advance.
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A reasonable interpretation.

Even so how big a headache is the current situation from a salvage perspective? I laughed when the German shipping co. executive said salvage was going to take at-least a few days during the TV press conference. It took 100's of millions to get the Costa Concordia afloat and one or two years. She was 30% bigger than Hoegh Osaka but even so how do they approach the job and what chances the operation will take at least 2 months?
 
jonjo5 said:
A reasonable interpretation.

Even so how big a headache is the current situation from a salvage perspective? I laughed when the German shipping co. executive said salvage was going to take at-least a few days during the TV press conference. It took 100's of millions to get the Costa Concordia afloat and one or two years. She was 30% bigger than Hoegh Osaka but even so how do they approach the job and what chances the operation will take at least 2 months?
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they are going to have to lift her or add external buoyancy for sure. She wont float on her own. Too hard aground I recon.
 
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