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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrand New One...Russian Cargo Ship Runs Aground On UK Beach...
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
(23,738 posts)I think it starred Alan Arkin.
Stuart G
(38,434 posts)in charge of Cargo Ship..
htuttle
(23,738 posts)A Soviet Navy submarine called Спрут ("Octopus" 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
(26,330 posts)byronius
(7,395 posts)Stuart G
(38,434 posts)it might need a repair or two. Poor, "Captain Stupid" no, he won't ever live this one down..
marybourg
(12,633 posts)beaches that I recall. Must not be very rare.
Stuart G
(38,434 posts)Don't you think that the ship's captain should know how deep the water is for his/her ship?
jpak
(41,758 posts)marybourg
(12,633 posts)One ship was carrying bunkeroil, 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 dont remember what happened to the second one, but likely the same thing. Its 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
(7,541 posts)didn't some yahoo drown a boatload of tourists in Branson, MO just a few months ago?
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)The ship that went aground is in an entirely different league. Kind of like comparing T-Ball to the major Leagues...
sdfernando
(4,935 posts)LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Oh, wait... That was Airplane.
Denzil_DC
(7,242 posts)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
(37,342 posts)Nobody hurt and no oil spill.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)A nice, easy beaching on sand, the ship should have glided to a halt.
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)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
(101,321 posts)...
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.
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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/
https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/17304829.live-updates-as-russian-ship-kuzma-minin-runs-aground-off-falmouth/
Stuart G
(38,434 posts)This situation is not new. And it has happened before...many times throughout history...
...... Oh well wrong again, sorry....