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Car Carrier Cougar Ace sinking outside Alaska

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Mats:
Colin,

Not sure what you mean. All cargo ships have flat bottoms like this. That includes passenger ships (including the biggest cruise liners) for that matter.

The challenging part of the PCTC (car carrier) design is the vessel's height and the fact that the cargo is more or less evenly distributed between the decks, meaning the centre of gravity is quite high. It is lowered through the use of ballast water, but too much of it appears to have been pumped from "Cougar Ace", and this apparently led to the dramatic list.

Best regards
Mats
Oslo

colintrav:
It made the boat Top Heavy inturn it listed

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