Hoegh Osaka aground on Bramble Bank

[alant]

I can't believe that last quote is from the Coastguard! Alpha anchorage is nowhere near Spitbank and not inside Portsmouth Harbour, FFS!!! In the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth maybe.

Bloody clever of APB to chuck it over into QHM's jurisdiction though!

Inside the area controlled by Portsmouth QHM though.

 

[superheat6k]

Sounds more like a knee jerk reaction, to an unexpected event ,the thing started to float off out of control, **** get a line on it pronto, we'll do a rewrite afterwards and say it was all in the method statement and risk assessment tomorrow

+1 Reckon it came off with about as much control as it went on eh !!!

 

[mm42]

It turns out the ship has it's very own twitter account...

https://twitter.com/HoeghOsaka

Superb.

 

[ChrisJefferies]

...and now they're selling t-shirts:

https://twitter.com/PinkeyeGraphics

 

[epervier]

...and now they're selling t-shirts:
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https://twitter.com/PinkeyeGraphics

Full marks to them, money to be made, as I've always said, "where there's a will,....I want to be in it"

 

[Dill et Bound]

I was thinking of what I might wear to the next Beer and Natter..

Decision made

 

[stelican]

...and now they're selling t-shirts:
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https://twitter.com/PinkeyeGraphics

Friend of mine caught crabs in Cowes

 

[epervier]

Friend of mine caught crabs in Cowes

easier to deal with than Syphilis

 

[benjenbav]

easier to deal with than Syphilis

There's a brilliant Spike Milligan recollection in one of his war books about a soldier, sidling up to the pharmacist counter in a packed shop and addressing the pharmacist in a whisper; the pharmacist replying in ringing tones "You want BLUE UNCTION?" and the soldier, aware that blue unction had only one use: 'crabs, for the treatment of' shouting back in a voice that could be heard the other end of the High Street, "YES, I'VE GOT BLOODY CRABS"

 

[benjenbav]

Hoegh Osaka news as reported on YBW's frontpage:

"An oily film has formed on top of this water from the hydraulics of the vehicles on board. The salvors will use a technique that draws the water from the bottom of the vessel to avoid this oily film."

um, that'd be a weighted pipe then

Read more at http://www.ybw.com/news/motorboats/...er-weather-delays-salvage#HLmCLmUi6WQPFpRM.99

 

[Mr Googler]

Now one of the tugs has had a little bump into it!! You can't really miss it but 80+ mph winds would make holding station a little tricky

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-30768102

 

[apward]

Alex Thomson Assists Salvage Team

 

[crazy4557]

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I think Alex has plenty of issues right now to not give a monkeys about a car transporter. I bet he's wishing he could also have a lean angle of 52 degrees but without his rig this seems unlikely.

 

[MILLIE BOO TOO]

Pictures of the salvage operation on Saturday

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[burgundyben]

Is the wonky mast on Lomax what happened when one of them bumped into the ship?

 

[ChrisJefferies]

MAIB report on this is out now - for those who don't have the time/inclination to read all 86 pages, here's the MBY digest:
http://www.mby.com/news/maib-hoegh-osaka-list-ballast-cargo-errors-52058
Can't help but feel there's a movie script in this...

 

[mm42]

Some stand up meetings without biscuits coming up I'd suggest.