Shipping containers (navigation hazard)

[Stillraining]

Yep that sums me up to Dan...I dont need one for containers Im and inland sailor but it sure would be the cats meow threading thru some of our rock gardens around here

Here is a picture of a reefer container out of our own photo album posted by Knottyboyz...what a mess.

[highseas]

When I was returning from Hawaii,near the Pacific High,we had the misfortune of running over a huge ball of abandonded driftnet.Got caught on homebuilt self steering rudder at stern(full length keel).It bent 2in. stainless shaft back about 30deg.,had to launch dinghy in 12ft. seas and remove bolts on bracket to get rudder on deck to straighten.With three on board, we managed to bend relatively straight and remount.all went well and still worked,continued on our homeward leg.Try sailing in the PNW in spring and count the huge logs and deadheads,they are everywhere!Still safer than driving at 100kph.I agree with Brent,steel is way to go,maybe my next boat.

[GordMay]

When Shipping Containers Sink in the Drink
We’ve supersized our capacity to ship stuff across the seas. As our global supply chains grow, what can we gather from the junk that washes up on shore?

”... Things have been tumbling off boats into the ocean for as long as humans have been a seafaring species, which is to say, at least ten thousand and possibly more than a hundred thousand years. But the specific kind of tumbling off a boat that befell the nearly five million Lego pieces of the Tokio Express is part of a much more recent phenomenon, dating only to about the nineteen-fifties and known in the shipping industry as “container loss.” Technically, the term refers to containers that do not make it to their destination for whatever reason: stolen in port, burned up in a shipboard fire, seized by pirates, blown up in an act of war. But the most common way for a container to get lost is by ending up in the ocean, generally by falling off a ship but occasionally by going down with one when it sinks ...

... At the time the “Ideal-X” [the first container ship] left port, on April 26, 1956, it cost an average of $5.83 per ton to load a cargo ship. With the advent of the shipping container, that price dropped to an estimated sixteen cents—and cargo-related employment plummeted along with it ...”

More ➥ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...ocket_discover

[AA3JY]

Ocean Navigator article with my pics..

http://www.oceannavigator.com/March-April-2013/A-legendary-offshore-danger/

[GordMay]

Not at sea, but ...

Bangladesh: Deadly fire and explosions at container facility

At least 49 killed, and over 300 injured, after fire and explosions hit the container depot, near the port city of Chittagong. The number of fatalities is expected to rise, as some of the injured are in critical condition.

The fire at the BM Inland Container Depot, a Dutch-Bangladesh joint venture, broke out around midnight Saturday, following explosions in a container full of chemicals [hydrogen peroxide?]. The cause of the fire could not be immediately determined. The depot is located near country's main Chittagong Seaport, 216 kilometres southeast of the capital, Dhaka.

More ➥ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/...ner-depot-fire