Wow, I can't imagine being on board THAT cookie-tosser. :-(
The ship's obviously lost power and/or control as it's parallel to the not-particularly-large waves. But I'm confused; high winds must have been from the port side making it roll heavily to starboard, but the chopper seems stable (I suppose that if the winds were constant the chopper could "lean" into the wind). I wonder if it'd also taken on water or something to make it roll so far to one side and not the other.
In a cyclone, I would have thought the waves would be larger or showing lots of foam.
Here's more background on this story from The Weather Channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DBGhXI586k
It's the MV Explorer in the north Pacific headed for Korea in January '05. A large wave crashed through the bridge and shorted out the electronics resulting in loss of power/control.
Must have been the MV Explorer 2. The Explorer, which sank in the Antarctic in Feb. '08, was Red.
I was on the Explorer in late October 2000 heading from Tristan da Cunha to South Georgia Island just above Antarctic waters when we were hit with a massive weather system that came East around Cape Horn.
The storm caught us just when we came out of the lee of Gough Island and for the next 23 hours were in seas of 45' with the occasional crest reaching around 70feet due to harmonic reinforcement in confused seas.
Known as The Little Red Ship, the Explorer was only about 235 feet in length and had no stabilizers, not that they would have been of any use.
Everybody lined up to use the satellite phone to say goodbye to their families. The ship was rolling close to the point of no return in 95 mph winds.
Launching of life boate would have been impossible if needed and the water temperature would extinguish life in about 4 minutes.
The storm was so intense that pipes were breaking onboard, along with bones, furniture, etc.
Wow, I can't imagine being on board THAT cookie-tosser. :-(
ReplyDeleteThe ship's obviously lost power and/or control as it's parallel to the not-particularly-large waves. But I'm confused; high winds must have been from the port side making it roll heavily to starboard, but the chopper seems stable (I suppose that if the winds were constant the chopper could "lean" into the wind). I wonder if it'd also taken on water or something to make it roll so far to one side and not the other.
In a cyclone, I would have thought the waves would be larger or showing lots of foam.
Here's more background on this story from The Weather Channel:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DBGhXI586k
It's the MV Explorer in the north Pacific headed for Korea in January '05. A large wave crashed through the bridge and shorted out the electronics resulting in loss of power/control.
Oy!
Must have been the MV Explorer 2. The Explorer, which sank in the Antarctic in Feb. '08, was Red.
ReplyDeleteI was on the Explorer in late October 2000 heading from Tristan da Cunha to South Georgia Island just above Antarctic waters when we were hit with a massive weather system that came East around Cape Horn.
The storm caught us just when we came out of the lee of Gough Island and for the next 23 hours were in seas of 45' with the occasional crest reaching around 70feet due to harmonic reinforcement in confused seas.
Known as The Little Red Ship, the Explorer was only about 235 feet in length and had no stabilizers, not that they would have been of any use.
Everybody lined up to use the satellite phone to say goodbye to their families. The ship was rolling close to the point of no return in 95 mph winds.
Launching of life boate would have been impossible if needed and the water temperature would extinguish life in about 4 minutes.
The storm was so intense that pipes were breaking onboard, along with bones, furniture, etc.
Now known as "The Perfect Storm Cruise".