Containere pierdute – care este riscul pentru iahturi?

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1. I had to report to Garrison Point a container that was floating about 2 feet below the surface some years back, actually within The River Medway.

2. In 1986 I was on a Frigate and we picked up a mayday from a 45' that hit a container and was taking on water. Got the position worked out and she was about 27 miles from us. All ahead flank, indicate turns for max RPM. We could see her on radar and got to her in about 25 minutes. Plucked everyone off using a motor whaleboat and brought them back. A helicopter came and flew them ashore to Florida.

3. Why would shipping containers float?!

4. Hang on The original Elite Game Revolved around Shipping containers Why are we as a ship savvy nation not out there Harvesting this GLUT of FREE GOODS

5. Back in the 70's/80's, I made a half dozen passages on my 55' schooner in the Pacific. Late one afternoon, I was on watch and spotted a mostly sunken container, just one corner sticking up, surfacing every so often in a long easy swell. I would not have been very excited about it, but it was less than 50 yards off, abeam. Meaning, it was just blind luck we did not hit it…which would have likely been fatal. Kinda like lightening, if it's your time, it is your time. The word 'scary' does not cover it.

   Veteran ''66-68

6. In addition to the twist locks at the corners of the containers, the containers are lashed to each other and the structure of the ship with steel cables.

7. No reported hits does not mean none – it may mean no survivors… YW should have included number of 'lost at sea' unknown causes. Certainly strong possibility a sailboat hitting a container would sink and sink quickly.

8. They should require transponders on each container….

9. excellent information. thank you!

10. her eyes say she is lying

11. Great video. Scary to sleep now as a solo sailer in a small Ericson 30+.

12. Fairly sure that your odds of hitting a whale are much higher than hitting a lost shipping containers.

13. Hear say.

14. hitting ghost ships blows donkey balls sue the owners of the ghost ships insurance companies

15. who do we have to lobby to change international marine salvage laws???? Just curious how can sailors from around the world work together to get these ghost ships and garbage out of the sea???

16. Only ever stayed in local waters myself, so thought it was a very big sea out there. Until I went on a cruise holiday and while crossing the bay of biscay, I counted 1 shipping container and 3 oil drums – scary!

17. Make them with dissolvable plugs at each end. So at least the container itself would not contribute to the floatation.

18. Why aren't these containers picked up. Shouldnt be too difficult once marked and the shipping companies should pay. Those that sink forms no danger to any shipping.

19. The notion that a container's ability to float is mostly based on its ability to be water tight is profoundly naive. The cargo in the container could have a buoyancy that is not great enough to surface the metal box, but great enough to keep from sinking…

20. All containers should have a GPS chip.

21. Helen Fretter; we dont want any containers in the sea. You dont know how many are floating about. Why Not? A ship leaving with 500 should arrive with 500. Any loss must be reported upon arrival to the Harbour Master

22. Thank you for the news. I am probably hit it too containers in December 2017. It heavy damage to my sailboat. I was sailing alone around the world ,damaging my tiller completely and end up in Vietnam for a 11 months.waiting for the passport back to USA .

23. They are like mini ice burgs.

24. Thorough thank you

25. 2016 off the coast of Ecuador we missed a very large tree stump by 20 meters . if we had hit it , in our 42ft sailing boat , it would have been Bad!

26. What a Privileged question!

27. I wonder if a camera on a tethered balloon would help spot such obstacles. Wireless cameras are affordable these days. Ultimately you would want an AI that could flag the obstacles seen through the camera. This might not be too useful at night.

28. Wouldn’t some of these shipping containers have people in them? It’s a known fact people have been found in them.🥺💔😭

29. Aluminium yacht

30. A steel hull would help but no guarantees.

31. Who care maybe slow t f down and buy an onboard forward metal detector 😂

32. The chances of colliding with a shipping container whilst sailing is 50 – 50.

    You either will collide with one or you won't collide with one!

33. Like the movie "All is lost".

34. I imagine a huge amount went out during the Japanese tsunami

35. Insurance claims…have you tried to collect without proof? Are you going to secure proof when your boat may be in the process of sinking, possibly in the dark and/or you were just roused from sleep? I believe estimating risk based on insurance claims, or lack thereof, an exercise in futility.

36. Great info…learned a lot…keep it up…SV Aquila…

37. Great report.

38. Just saw a yotube vid of a couple on a catamaran sailing across the Pacific who got a Mayday call from a Steel yacht that hit "Something" very solid just below the surface and ripped their keel clean off, it sank in little over a minute, they barely made it into the life raft, luckily the Cat was only 15 km away and another boat was closer and luckily saved the couple, they were shocked how quick their boat went down, suspected to be a shipping container just below the surface!

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