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Title: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Fred Vloo on December 09, 2012, 09:11:22 PM

Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort. Distance to the shore about 3 km, doing 1,8 knots.

Hercules and Ievoli Black nearby and rescuevessel van Messel

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1585106

Location on AIS: http://marinetraffic.com/ais/nl/default.aspx?mmsi=352851000&centerx=4.41841&centery=52.41122&zoom=10&type_color=7#

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Fred Vloo on December 09, 2012, 09:47:31 PM

She altered course.... is it a good sign?

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Christian on December 09, 2012, 11:35:05 PM

I've see tugs are helping :) Hope she did not runned aground!

What's going on these days in Dutch waters?

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Captain Ted on December 10, 2012, 12:38:30 AM

Lets hope that,s not the next casualty
but when I look at the track, slow drifting,, the master never thought about dipping the anchor to slow the drift or let it fall complete ? The waters are not that there ?  are they ?

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Fred Vloo on December 10, 2012, 02:09:04 AM

She finally dropped anchor and she's save. Ievoli Black left and now Triton and Hercules are with her. There's a helicopter in the air and if neccesary the heli will take people from board. Ievoli Black went to IJmuiden, I saw her there, but she's coming back now. Videofootage will follow. I better go to bed, it's 03:00 :-)

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Captain Ted on December 10, 2012, 02:29:36 AM

thanks the update Fred

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Fred Vloo on December 10, 2012, 03:12:33 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuQl3uaZsVo&feature=youtu.be

Some videofootage. Not the best, but it's something. She is almost 3,5 km away, it was pitch black and there was a 6bft wind blowing.

I'm off to bed :-)

Thanks Capt. Ted

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: victor radio74 on December 10, 2012, 09:36:05 AM

Thanks Fred,in my opinion you are one of the big values of this site,in any sense.

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Phil English on December 10, 2012, 09:42:11 AM

That's awesome footage Fred, in the circumstances. Brilliant stuff.

Cheers
Phil

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: ugamskjaer on December 10, 2012, 10:49:15 AM

Super nice video !!! Good they got a hold of her  :)

Regds

Ulrik

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Tore Hettervik on December 10, 2012, 11:02:16 AM

A realy fine video Fred

Regds Tore

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: cesarloque on December 10, 2012, 11:44:24 AM

The movie's track

http://www.localizatodo.com/mapa/?zoom=12&latitud=52.38278&longitud=4.467936&pais=nl&tipo=1&presenta=0&zlat=52.3667&zlng=4.4833&zcalc=10&zhora=21&zminu=0&ztalc=180&zplay=0&year=2012&mes=12&dia=9&mmsi=352851000 (http://www.localizatodo.com/mapa/?zoom=12&latitud=52.38278&longitud=4.467936&pais=nl&tipo=1&presenta=0&zlat=52.3667&zlng=4.4833&zcalc=10&zhora=21&zminu=0&ztalc=180&zplay=0&year=2012&mes=12&dia=9&mmsi=352851000)

Regds

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Captain Ted on December 10, 2012, 12:26:21 PM

hi fred
for the conditions a superb video
She is a little smaller (1500 GT/4000 tdw) as the ships I sail. Seeing this I can pretty
good imagine how the crew feels in such a situation. The only good thing I can detect is that the vessel hardly rolls but pretty good pitches, which is easier to deal with then rolling, special in such a situation.

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Fred Vloo on December 10, 2012, 12:49:01 PM

Quote from: cesarloque on December 10, 2012, 11:44:24 AM

The movie's track

http://www.localizatodo.com/mapa/?zoom=12&latitud=52.38278&longitud=4.467936&pais=nl&tipo=1&presenta=0&zlat=52.3667&zlng=4.4833&zcalc=10&zhora=21&zminu=0&ztalc=180&zplay=0&year=2012&mes=12&dia=9&mmsi=352851000 (http://www.localizatodo.com/mapa/?zoom=12&latitud=52.38278&longitud=4.467936&pais=nl&tipo=1&presenta=0&zlat=52.3667&zlng=4.4833&zcalc=10&zhora=21&zminu=0&ztalc=180&zplay=0&year=2012&mes=12&dia=9&mmsi=352851000)

Regds

Thanks for posting.

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Phil English on December 10, 2012, 01:10:54 PM

Capt. Ted,

I think you have the wrong Ocean Victory. The ship in question is a 28,000 dwt handy bulker. She might appear smaller being tossed around in the swell in Fred's video  ;)

Brgds
Phil

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Fred Vloo on December 10, 2012, 01:21:54 PM

Livecam, for as long as it works: http://www.rtvnh.nl/


Cheers Fred

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: GERRYHAYES on December 10, 2012, 01:40:46 PM

WOW,amazing footage as usual Fred.cheers.

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Captain Ted on December 10, 2012, 01:41:58 PM

Phil
I talk about the UBC Salaverry, rough 33000 tdw and the UBC Sacramento ,rough 31500 tdw,
and I state that this one is a little smaller then those two.
Did I get it wrong somewhere ?

brgds
capt ted

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Phil English on December 10, 2012, 01:50:09 PM

Sorry Capt. I misunderstood. I assumed you were talking of a particular ship being 4,000 dwt, not the DIFFERENCE in size being 4,000 dwt  :D

Brgds
Phil

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Fred Vloo on December 10, 2012, 01:51:03 PM

Latest news is that they are going to try to get her into deeper waters, tomorrow morning 08:00 local time.

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Captain Ted on December 10, 2012, 02:05:13 PM

Fred
what is the reason,,I read drifting
Engine trouble ? I guess one can assume that safely ?

brgds
capt ted

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Fred Vloo on December 10, 2012, 02:08:50 PM

She hit a Buoy after leaving the harbour of IJmuiden. The chain of this buoy got entangled in her propeller.

Title: Re: Ocean Victory on drift on the North Sea near Zandvoort.
Post by: Captain Ted on December 10, 2012, 02:22:50 PM

hi fred
Ijmuiden has strong sideways pushing tides when one comes out of the breakwater
when you approach the buoys, they appear to be clear, but a lot people don,t realize
in such situations that the vessel does not only move foward but also sideways and
when this is not seen or attended to in the course setting upfront, one can come awfully
close to the buoys. The really bad part is,,, that when they see that the passing is tight, will say on a stbside buoy they change too late to port. When then it become evident that they will touch the buoy with the stb side,,then they give hard port !!!! and go full into the buoy.
Hard starboard would actully get the stern away from the buoy.