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| Thread ID: 121000 | 2011-10-07 04:24:00 | Ship at the Mount - need to reconvene PC World Rescue group | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1236049 | 2011-10-23 01:32:00 | Nothing to do all day and all day to do it in again BM. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1236050 | 2011-10-23 04:04:00 | Is that Maritime New Zealand? Good, look we’ve got this heavy lift vessel called the “Pancaldo” tied up here at the Port of Tauranga, do you know anything about it? No idea huhh. Well the Captain seems to think you wanted some containers salvaged. Not your department aye. Might have something to do with the containers on the grounded Rena? Ok, Ok, see what you can find out, it’s beautiful weather to actually do something and salvage a container or two. Ohhhh, It’s Labour Weekend. Oh Right, sorry, call you on Tuesday. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1236051 | 2011-10-23 05:33:00 | Sadly there is an element of truth in that lot. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1236052 | 2011-10-23 19:17:00 | Looks like they’ve taken the Pancaldo out for a bit of R&R whilst awaiting instructions. :D This site may interest some of those amongst us? HERE (www.marinetraffic.com) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1236053 | 2011-10-23 22:00:00 | The though of hundreds of containers bobbing around in the Pacific does not bear thinking about. They cant even find the 30 from the 88 unaccounted for ! What if they sink a few ships or yachts etc ? I think they should be taking the empty ones of Now And I think they should be drilling some holes in all the others, so that they will sink if they hit the water. Or at least put a GPS on each one and attach a Bouy to them. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1236054 | 2011-10-23 23:23:00 | They actually have a ship going around looking for containers and picking them up. The ship has cranes on it to pick them up. I think they are using sonar to find the sunken ones and sending divers down to attach the chains to haul them back up and hoist them onto the ship. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1236055 | 2011-10-23 23:42:00 | They actually have a ship going around looking for containers and picking them up. The ship has cranes on it to pick them up. I think they are using sonar to find the sunken ones and sending divers down to attach the chains to haul them back up and hoist them onto the ship. :) How they know what's in a container before they send the divers down? The deeper the dive the more technically complicated (read "expensive"!) it gets, so at some point it'll become "not cost effective" to bother with. |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1236056 | 2011-10-24 00:31:00 | Whats your point. It doesn't matter whats in them they are just picking them up end of story. The cost I presume is being payed for by the insurers. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1236057 | 2011-10-24 00:53:00 | What about the 1300 odd containers still on the Rena? We know where they are, so wouldn’t it be a good idea to remove them before the next storm which will almost certainly see them all over the ocean. Beautiful weather, an appropriate vessel available, and I don’t think one single container has been removed from the stricken ship. So what’s the excuse? However, they have made this remarkable recovery. Big deal. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1236058 | 2011-10-24 01:31:00 | Whats your point. It doesn't matter whats in them they are just picking them up end of story. The cost I presume is being payed for by the insurers. :) Well, that's the point. If the cost of the recovery is more than the value of the container and the whatever is in it (now damaged by salt and water) it'd be cheaper for the insurance company to pay out. They're not responsible for recovering it as well, surely? |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
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