Thread: Tanker runs aground in newcastle

bit late mick tusker beat us to it

yep there is one just about to go up on stockton, near the sygna!! why is my disco out of action!! i would be up there with my camera!

And a few hudred kays south it is nice and sunny in VIc. Little to no wind. And a lovely beach going 16deg.

My brother who is there said two more ships are on their way to run aground - one in Stockton Bight and one a little further south.

Two of his pics attached

These things mustn't have a lot of real power... I heard it was leaving port and very quickly got hammered, towards the beach, then again, the windage would be huge....

When's the next one gonna hit Stockton?

Apparently its named the 'Sea Confidence'

how appropriate...

GQ

I know were I'm going for a drive tomorrow. Pat

Originally Posted by Quiggers

Yeah, surf's up!
Stuff I'm hearing on the local radio:
'A buoy measured a wave at 17 metres.'
'3 other ships in trouble, one is only 1.3 ks off the coast, engines going flat out and is only just holding position.'
'Choppers crew safely winched all crew from the 40,000 tonne bulk carrier.'

Very brave guys.

...meanwhile, a few hundred ks north, its a bright sunny day, amazing.....

GQ

Reminds me of a night in 1987? when I sat on a cliff in the Royal National Park with the Sydney harbourmaster watching rockets go back and forth between the tug 'Manly Cove' and either an ore or coal carrier (can't remember) that had dragged its anchor from south of Stanwell Park in a storm. I bet the reason for this one is the same, they refused to take on ballast water because they were due in port the next morning, hence the screws were continually coming out of the water.

Manly Cove eventually got a line across, by hooking it with a boat hook (very spectacular given the sea conditions). Would have paid nicely from salvage I would imagine. We were there to bring the (mostly) Philipino crew out if they were airlifted off.



Martyn

Hey, Bushie, the news reports are saying the one that is aground was leaving port (if you can believe the news reports, given one report called it a container ship, not a coal ship), but the other 3 in trouble?

Well, they all couldn't have been leaving port at the same time, so.......

Why do they anchor so close to the coast when they know a huge storm is on the way - surely, you'd think they'd weigh anchor and head out to sea...

GQ