News update, Friday 18th May 2012 and they managed to pull the vessel off into deep water. The boat will then be taken to Cape Town Harbour but who will pay for this salvage?
Roy
It was foggy a few mornings back, so foggy it seems that one ship lost all its navigation instruments? At least one source is suggesting the grounding may have been deliberate.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Questions-over-ships-grounding-20120514
The long liner fishing boat firmly beached at Cape Towns Clifton Beach, its named the
Eihatsu Maru.
Cliftons First beach, the countries premier beach now has a problem.
Thats Lions Paw rock there, we are lucky the ship missed that on its way in, the tug may have a long wait,spring high tides were some days back.
Named Z Tug she is at anchor, check the Black Ball forward of the wheelhouse.
The NSRI did a great job of taking the crew off, they used rubber ducks off the stern of the ship, you can walk ashore today.
How hard can this be, when we as amature sailors who take our navigation and boat preperations so seriously, how can a proffessional crew do this?
Roy
News story from Times Live, with thanks.
The NSRI took part of the crew off the boat.
Roy
It was foggy a few mornings back, so foggy it seems that one ship lost all its navigation instruments? At least one source is suggesting the grounding may have been deliberate.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Questions-over-ships-grounding-20120514
The long liner fishing boat firmly beached at Cape Towns Clifton Beach, its named the
Eihatsu Maru.
Cliftons First beach, the countries premier beach now has a problem.
Said to have 90 tones of fuel oil and a load of Ammonia aboard.
Men can be seen on the aft decks, there were tow lines to her yesterday, I do not see those now.
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Named Z Tug she is at anchor, check the Black Ball forward of the wheelhouse.
The NSRI did a great job of taking the crew off, they used rubber ducks off the stern of the ship, you can walk ashore today.
All pictures by Roy McBride
Comment by a regular blog viewer below.
Roy - I would LOVE TO KNOW how on earth they managed this. No bad weather – besides fog, and engines working fine . . . did the helmsman fall asleep or go for a pee? Did the GPSs and the radar and the depth-sounder and the compass fail together? Insurance scam? Were they doing a tourist exhibitionist like Costa Concordia at 5am? The mind boggles. As you say tides are no longer in their favour – they will need to unpack the boat – but I understand it already quite light . . .
How hard can this be, when we as amature sailors who take our navigation and boat preperations so seriously, how can a proffessional crew do this?
Roy
News story from Times Live, with thanks.
The Eihatsu Maru long line fishing vessel, a Japanese ship, ran aground at 5.15am on Saturday in thick fog.
In total, 90 tons of diesel and 50 tons of fish were on board the trawler, Solomons-Johannes said.
The cause of the ship's grounding had not been established. Its engines remained in working order and generators continued to work.
It had not been damaged by the stranding.
A tug boat was sent from Simonstown to tow the boat on Saturday night, but the tow rope snapped as the trawler proved too heavy.
Marine engineers would fit a metal plate to the ship to enable it to be tugged, Solomons-Johannes said.
Inflatable barriers had been deployed around the ship to prevent a possible oil spill.
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) confirmed that the crew members of the trawler were rescued by Saturday afternoon.
"Two NSRI rescue swimmers were placed onboard the vessel and Taiwanese consulate staff and the ships agent assisted the NSRI with language interpretations between the... crew and NSRI rescuers," spokesman Craig Lambinon said.
Of the 28 Taiwanese crew members and dog on board, 19 were evacuated. The dog remained on board at the insistence of the captain, the animal's owner.
The remaining crew members and the captain were required to stay on board under international maritime law, said Solomons-Johannes.
The NSRI took part of the crew off the boat.
The local ward counciler says the boat has moved in to land by around 25 meters since going ashore?
Salvage officials look on as a tugboat attempts to refloat fishing vessel Eihatsu Maru which ran aground at Clifton, one of Cape Town's most popular tourist beaches.
Image by: MIKE HUTCHINGS / REUTERS
Image by: MIKE HUTCHINGS / REUTERS
