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boatgeek · Jun 2, 2021

The picture itself doesn't make me laugh, but I love an understated headline. More coverage of this disaster here. TL;DR: sometimes carrying a container of 25 MT of nitric acid ends badly for everyone concerned. I hope they paid their hazmat fee.

mbeels · Jun 2, 2021

boatgeek said:
The picture itself doesn't make me laugh, but I love an understated headline. More coverage of this disaster here. TL;DR: sometimes carrying a container of 25 MT of nitric acid ends badly for everyone concerned. I hope they paid their hazmat fee.
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Oh goodness, someone had a chuckle writing that headline. And now it seems to be sinking: "X-Press performs permanent survey of the seabed floor."

jqavins · Jun 2, 2021

boatgeek said:
I hope they paid their hazmat fee.

Geez, man! I hope the crew got off the ship !

SkyFire · Jun 2, 2021

boatgeek · Jun 2, 2021

jqavins said:
Geez, man! I hope the crew got off the ship !

All crew were off safely with a couple of minor injuries. No injuries reported among the salvage crew. A later article had a better write-up on the cause. Apparently in the previous two port visits, they'd asked to offload the container of nitric acid because it was leaking. The ports both waved them off because they didn't have the facilities for/didn't want to deal with that kind of hazmat mess. Eventually, the acid got to something it could light on fire.

Nytrunner · Jun 2, 2021

I'm not a maritime expert, but parts of that ship look slightly....melted

Nytrunner · Jun 2, 2021

Antares JS · Jun 2, 2021

boatgeek said:
All crew were off safely with a couple of minor injuries. No injuries reported among the salvage crew. A later article had a better write-up on the cause. Apparently in the previous two port visits, they'd asked to offload the container of nitric acid because it was leaking. The ports both waved them off because they didn't have the facilities for/didn't want to deal with that kind of hazmat mess. Eventually, the acid got to something it could light on fire.

Sounds sadly similar to what happened in Beirut last year. Repeatedly asking for help with a hazmat problem only to be ignored or denied. At least no one got hurt this time.

boatgeek · Jun 2, 2021

Nytrunner said:
I'm not a maritime expert, but parts of that ship look slightly....melted

Remember the 9/11 conspiracy theories that said fires couldn't make a steel building collapse? Yeah, not so much.

At first, I thought that the melted pile near the visible fire toward the stern was the remains of the pilothouse. Looking at later pictures, it turns out that's just a pile of containers melted down. The bridge wing is just visible poking out of the smoke at the aft end.

Antares JS said:
Sounds sadly similar to what happened in Beirut last year. Repeatedly asking for help with a hazmat problem only to be ignored or denied. At least no one got hurt this time.

True. I'm also 100% sure that the port of Qatar (one of the ones that denied help) has the ability, facilities, and money to handle a leaky hazmat container. The other one was a smaller port in India and might or might not have been able to really deal with it safely.

tsmith1315 · Jun 2, 2021

Nytrunner said:
ew

Apparently, it's:

Brad_G · Jun 2, 2021

heada · Jun 2, 2021

boatgeek said:
Remember the 9/11 conspiracy theories that said fires couldn't make a steel building collapse? Yeah, not so much.

At first, I thought that the melted pile near the visible fire toward the stern was the remains of the pilothouse. Looking at later pictures, it turns out that's just a pile of containers melted down. The bridge wing is just visible poking out of the smoke at the aft end.

True. I'm also 100% sure that the port of Qatar (one of the ones that denied help) has the ability, facilities, and money to handle a leaky hazmat container. The other one was a smaller port in India and might or might not have been able to really deal with it safely.

I was confused about this container ship and the Iranian warship. Both in the region, both on fire, both within days of each other, very different ships.

RocketGeekInFL · Jun 2, 2021

SkyFire · Jun 2, 2021

jqavins · Jun 2, 2021

boatgeek said:
I'm also 100% sure that the port of Qatar (one of the ones that denied help) has the ability, facilities, and money to handle a leaky hazmat container.

Now I'm picturing gigantic cargo helicopters dropping tons and tons of baking soda.