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Shipspotters all over the world => Shipping News and information => Topic started by: Yvon Perchoc on October 07, 2018, 01:58:32 PM
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Hi,
07 Oct 2018 - Collision between the Tunisian ropax ULYSSE (IMO9142459), on her way from Genova to Tunisia, and the container carrier CSL VIRGINIA (IMO9289568), waiting for orders, at 15 NM north of Corsica island (Mediterranea).
Please see photo : http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2018/10/07/97001-20181007FILWWW00046-corse-collision-entre-deux-bateaux.php
Regards,
Yvon
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How can be possible to steam directly on a ship adrift waiting for orders? In daylight, good visibility, at 18+ knots and 300 meters of steel in front of you ?
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The answer to your question about how it can happen is very easy. Not keeping a lookout. The company spent a lot of money installing windows in the wheelhouse when the ship was built but it seems that OOW's don't think they need to look out of them. There can't have been anyone on the bridge keeping a watch at the time. If there was this would never have happened. In the old days we used to joke that if there was only a dog up there at least he would have barked to warn of the impending danger!
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Joking ? Really?
The following are my own personal experiences from the mid sixties.
I was a radio officer and it might be worth pointing out that R/Os worked to GMT and not ship
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More info (in Italian) and photos at the scene of this absurd collision available here:
http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/media/Collisione-tra-mercantili-a-nord-della-Corsica-chiazza-di-carburante-di-4-km-8f888c24-f505-40ee-8728-2b6a7341a292.html#foto-1
Concerns now are on how to quickly and swiftly control the extensive fuel spillage before it ends up hitting the coast and causing extensive environmental damage there.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TaFeBx-rio
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Perhaps the OOW, lookout and helmsan were all in the head... Together... At the same time..?
I would bet money on the BNWAS being turned off prior to the collision, too...
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How can be possible to steam directly on a ship adrift waiting for orders? In daylight, good visibility, at 18+ knots and 300 meters of steel in front of you ?
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The container vessel was at anchor and as far as I know they had been there for a while. So let's assume the anchor watch / OOW has noticed that the ULYSSE was approaching. What to do ? Before you have yr engine ready and the anchor up it's anyhow done.
That leaves the problem on the ULYSSE. Nobody on the bridge ? Maybe . OOW Falling asleep ? Maybe
I hardly can wait to hear / read the results of the investigation