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Shipspotters all over the world => Shipping News and information => Topic started by: Allan RO on January 03, 2015, 11:20:16 PM
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Hoegh Osaka apparently grounded and listing on Bramble bank after leaving Southampton just after 20.00 tonight. Tugs and lifeboats in attendance. Tugela inbound turned around to Dront Line anchorage. Southampton port presumably closed.
Allan
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Port still open as car carrier Honor has departed, Hoegh Osaka is outside the main channel, pilot off the inbound Tugela is now aboard the Hoegh Osaka..
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Hi Allan, Tony,
Here's a photo: http://thelatebay.com/index.php?threads/oh-dear-look-whats-happened-tonight-in-the-solent.47064/
David
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Hoegh Osaka must be well out of channel then. List looks to be around 45 degrees.
Allan
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Lying to the East of the West Bramble buoy, seemingly atop the part of the Brambles on which the natives play cricket during the summer.
Well over and no doubt with a cargo shift, seeing as it's HW now and they haven't dragged her off the view at LW could be somewhat drastic.
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2 Svitzer tugs are now on site to help.
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attempt to be made to move her at high water, just after 10:00hrs this morning
Allan
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Anyone know what type of cars she has on board? A lot of Range Rovers and Rolls Royces are exported through Southampton. Who fancies a side swiped Roller?
Holedriller
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A look back at the ship's track, it almost appears as if she was grounded deliberately with a big 180 degree turn after passing the Brambles Buoy. Either that or total steering failure.
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Now appearing as if she was deliberately beached after suffering a loss of stability and taking on a severe angle of list when making the turn, slack ballast tanks and an in process fuel transfer suggested as being the problem.
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Looks similar to the "Cougar Ace" incident a while back. Hopefully they can bring her on even keel by reballasting her.
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The main problem with refloating is that she went aground about an hour before high water on what was the highest tide for two weeks. So I guess she will remain there for some while - and if we get a storm or two in the meantime, who knows what the outcome will be.
Allan
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Allan - do you think her list is exacerbated by lying on sloping ground? Or is it fairly level there?
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there is an annual cricket game on Bramble Bank on the lowest tide of the summer, so although not Lord's it's fairly flat, unless she is right on the edge.
Allan
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David, the ground there is level enough to play cricket on but I see your point; it is possible she is lying on the edge of the bank.
Allan, re the weather; it is forecast to start getting a bit tasty tomorrow evening, with the wind gradually strengthening over the coming days, winding up at 20kts plus by Thursday. It gets even fresher in the days that follow, perhaps as high as 30kts.
And of course, the tide is starting to drop after Thursday.
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So there we have it. Hoegh have said in a press conference that the ship developed a list while leaving Southampton and was grounded on the bank deliberately as the safest option.
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There we have it Kelvin, so why does a ship like this develop a list in calm conditions and sheltered waters.
Allan
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@Allan. How? One suggestion by Malim Sahib below.
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Good evening!
Hoegh Osaka carrying 1,400 cars.
According to www.marinetraffic.com the vessel left Southampton and made a sharp left turn and run aground. Please see below AIS-card published by the "DAILY MAIL".
Interesting (and curious) Photo of grounded HOEGH OSAKA on wikipedia:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Hoegh_Osaka_Bramble_Bank.JPG
Think we have to wait until MAIB-Report is published:
http://www.maib.gov.uk/latest_news/hoegh_osaka.cfm
"Daily Mail" reports as follows: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2895837/Car-transporter-cargo-ship-runs-aground-Isle-Wight.html
regards Peter
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Watching the press conference, I think Hoegh chairman said there was a ballast or fuel transfer in hand when the list developed. The similar vessel Cougar Ace developed a 60 degree list when transferring ballast off the Aleutian Islands about 8 year ago, so it is a matter of record how tender these top heavy looking car carriers are, although it is hard to imagine how a crew member would continue a transfer operation when it was clearly all turning to ratsxxx. But it has happened before. If that was the cause of the imbalance on Hoegh Osaka, it would be exacerbated by the sharp turn to port to round the end of Bramble Bank, and this would depend on the speed at the time. Has anyone got a plot of the ships speed? Sewol capsized and sank with heavy loss of life due to the third mate executing a sharp turn with an unstable vessel. Can't think of any other act of man that would have caused the list. Would the ship leave the dock with little water ballast to minimise draught with the intention of taking more on as soon as in clear water, does this happen?
Alternatively, could something mechanical have caused the list, hard to imagine a hole suddenly developing or an open valve having sufficient effect on stability? A factor that mitigates against poor stability is that the ship was only on third loaded with cars, presumably on the lower decks. But perhaps not, they could have been all up top for the short sea crossing to Germany.
Turning to the cargo, there was an excellent TV programme recently of the largest car carrier operating out of Southampton to the Far East with a cargo of Rolls Royces etc, and they went to enormous lengths to tie each one down. On Cougar Ace, despite a 60 degree list, only a few hundred out of 4713 broke free and were damaged, despite which Mazda scrapped the lot. I wonder if HC's cars have all slid down to the lower side? If so, this will make re-righting much more difficult.
Holedriller
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On the left is the course which I captured from MarineTraffic this morning - but I did not note the speeds. On the right is the more limited data available now to non-subscribers, but enough speeds to give an indication.
Speeding up into the turn. Hmmm. The pilot-master interchange may make interesting reading.
David
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I'm wondering,if the vessel had a pilot on the bridge.I'm not familar with Southampton because i never was there,so my question might be stupid. As far as i remember the pilotstation is close to the Nab Tower.....
Thanks in advance for the answer.
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Yes, a pilot is required.
http://www.southamptonvts.co.uk/Pilotage/Pilotage_Directions/
RNLI reported "All 24 crew members aboard the vessel were rescued and returned to safety. Some crew were airlifted from the vessel by the Lee on Solent Rescue 104 Coastguard helicopter and Rescue 169 helicopter from RAF Chivenor. Two Southampton VTS pilots were also on board the ship."
http://rnli.org/NewsCentre/Pages/RNLI-lifeboats-join-multiagency-rescue-in-the-Solent.aspx
As 'Tony1' reported yesterday, the pilot of the inward TUGELA was transferred to HOEGH OSAKA after the grounding.
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Getting interesting now (Wednesday 16:00).
Svitzer had a plan to refloat the Osaka today at mid-day then late last night they cancelled this as they had found more water in the vessel than they had first thought. The operation was postponed until the next weather window, which could be a while as the weather is getting worse by the day. Then, at around 15:00 today I noticed a couple of Sviter tugs in a hurry coming from Southampton. Now it emerges the vessel refloated anyway, with no external help. Having started swingin, the tugs pushed and pulled to return the ship to the original position on the bank and currently there as 7 tugs pulling toward the East.
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Hoegh Osaka now at Alpha anchorage. 500 metre exclusion zone + 2000 metre above re quadcopters etc. Will be illuminated throughout hours of darkness by tugs.
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And I bet there's a bunch of people sitting around saying "How did that happen?"
Good news though. Now man the pumps and get it back for a thorough wash and dry!
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What I take to be a wreck buoy laid by Trinity House's GALATEA on Monday will presumably be taken away or moved; it continues to give out the AIS signal for "WRECK - IMO 9185463"
Seems to be LOMAX, PHENIX, VORTEX, SVITZER SARAH and SVITZER SURREY; with support from WILLSUPPLY and WILLVENTURE II, and navigational protection from SP PATHFINDER. Have there been others earlier today?
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Seems very odd that the vessel had always been described as 'secured' on the Bramble Bank, but managed to self-refloat and enter the main shipping channel - it simply beggers belief and a very good thing that a fully laden crude tanker was not coming in to Fawley at the time. I think someone must be smiling down on the Solent.
Allan
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Latest Notice to Mariners re buoys and temporary exclusion zone http://www.southamptonvts.co.uk/admin/content/files/NTMs/2015%20No%2004%28T%29.pdf
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She looks even more precarious in real life, shame she was too far away for a decent photo