Brand New One...Russian Cargo Ship Runs Aground On UK Beach...

[Stuart G]

Hit the link below, you got to see this one to believe it....No, I did not make this up.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/18/russia-cargo-ship-cornwall-falmouth-gb-lon-orig.cnn/video/playlists/around-the-world/

OK...not new.....New One For Me....

..........don't know much about ships..............

[htuttle]

1. I saw that movie when I was a kid

I think it starred Alan Arkin.

[Stuart G]

3. It ain't a movie...at least I thought it was, but I guess there are "Idiots" everywhere, even

in charge of Cargo Ship..

[htuttle]

5. The cargo ship is real. The movie had a sub.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russians_Are_Coming,_the_Russians_Are_Coming

A Soviet Navy submarine called Спрут ("Octopus&quot draws too close to the New England coast one morning when its captain (Theodore Bikel) wants to take a good look at America and runs aground on a sandbar near the fictional Gloucester Island, which, from other references in the movie, is located off the coast of Cape Ann or Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and has a significant population of summer visitors. Rather than radio for help and risk an embarrassing international incident, the captain sends a nine-man landing party, headed by his zampolit (Political Officer) Lieutenant Yuri Rozanov (Alan Arkin), to find a motor launch to help free the submarine from the bar.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. Everybody to get from street!

[byronius]

2. Salvage!

[Stuart G]

4. If you read the story, it is an empty cargo ship..but the ship itself, yes, ...but..

it might need a repair or two. Poor, "Captain Stupid" no, he won't ever live this one down..

[marybourg]

6. Happened twice on NYC

beaches that I recall. Must not be very rare.

[Stuart G]

7. Well...?? Sorry I didn't know that..Isn't that the wrong thing to do? If you are a ship's captain?

Don't you think that the ship's captain should know how deep the water is for his/her ship?

[jpak]

10. He's probably not the Captain now!

[marybourg]

19. You would think.

One ship was carrying “bunker”oil, the other illegal migrants. Each washed up on bathing beaches on the south shore of the Rockaways, a barrier beach off the south shore of Queens. The first one, at least, had to be cut up and hauled away in pieces. I don’t remember what happened to the second one, but likely the same thing. It’s mighty shallow off those beaches and hard to imagine it could be re-floated. Maybe someone else remembers. Must have been about 1990 or so.

[pecosbob]

8. There's certainly no shortage of incompetent skippers

didn't some yahoo drown a boatload of tourists in Branson, MO just a few months ago?

[LakeSuperiorView]

13. Not a good comparison. The boat that sank in Branson didn't require any licensing.

The ship that went aground is in an entirely different league. Kind of like comparing T-Ball to the major Leagues...

[sdfernando]

15. Its an entirely different kind of running agound.....all together /nt

[LakeSuperiorView]

16. It's an entirely different kind of running aground

Oh, wait... That was Airplane.

[Denzil_DC]

9. It's now been refloated and is lying at anchor off Falmouth awaiting inspection for damage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-46602615

Those can be treacherous waters, and we've been having storms.

For those of us of a certain age, any mention of a large ship in trouble off the Cornish coast stirs bleak memories of the Torrey Canyon oil tanker disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Torrey_Canyon

That one was a major catastrophe, and was blamed on the captain trying to take a short cut (it sounds like today's ship dragged its anchor in high seas, so probably no one to blame). The government bombed the Torrey Canyon wreck repeatedly to try to limit the escape of oil, but efforts to contain the pollution largely failed.

So far, we seem to have escaped ill effects with this one.

[Turbineguy]

11. Empty ships can be hard to control in a wind gust.

Nobody hurt and no oil spill.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. I bet the captain didn't even spill a drop of vodka.

A nice, easy beaching on sand, the ship should have glided to a halt.

[LakeSuperiorView]

17. Ships have run aground several times outside the harbor in Duluth.

And this year, one grounded INSIDE the harbor, while trying to leave via the Aerial Bridge.

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"Emergency, everyone to drop anchor" at about 30 seconds in...
The ships have to make a sharp right turn when leaving and this one blew it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. Dragged its anchor - and they run it on a shoestring

A huge rescue mission was launched after bulk carrier Kuzma Minin, carrying 18 crew, became stranded on Gyllyngvase Beach just before 6am after dragging its anchor in a southerly gale.
...
She was detained in Holland for five months from July until this month, after an inspection unearthed more than 100 defects.

There was also an issue with the crew's wages.
...
Key, who said she had visited the ship twice to distribute basic provisions like toothpaste, razors and food to the sailors, said that the crew had been hesitant to accept the aid at first, but eventually gave in.

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/17305695.kuzma-minin-drama-on-gyllyngvase-beach/

The Marine Tracker website's past track information would suggest that the ship ran aground shortly before 5.30am and began drifting towards the shore around an hour before that.

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/17304829.live-updates-as-russian-ship-kuzma-minin-runs-aground-off-falmouth/

[Stuart G]

20. I would like to apologize...It was a new one for me...but according to the comments..

This situation is not new. And it has happened before...many times throughout history...
...... Oh well wrong again, sorry....