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Chinese Ship sinks with 450 people on board
Chinese Ship sinks with 450 people on board
The ship sank with 450 people on board on the Yangtze River. 8 people had been rescued so far.
http://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/world/chi ... ar-BBkxODA
http://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/world/chi ... ar-BBkxODA
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My thoughts are with the victims. I hope they can find safety
based on report the cyclone was not a surprise..
based on report the cyclone was not a surprise..
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Re: Chinese Ship sinks with 450 people on board
Latest I heard was there there were still people alive inside of the capsized ferry. Mostly elderly. Rough.
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I didn't know rivers were big enough to carry a ship of 400 people. I don't think India has such huge rivers.
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And so far only 15 survivors..
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Re: Chinese Ship sinks with 450 people on board
I heard that they can hear others still inside the capsized ferry. Hopefully they will be able to gain access just below the waterline to be able to pull them out. Cannot cut above the waterline as it will release the remaining air trapped in the hull.
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
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Yangtze is big ..Wd40 wrote:I didn't know rivers were big enough to carry a ship of 400 people. I don't think India has such huge rivers.
Closer to home the port of Chittagong is located at the mouth of a River
And in US alone, a lot of large ports are located up-river.
SMS, thinking aloud, why isn't there some solution to lift up such ships, like the MV Sewol- quick deployed, instead of seeing the ship sink ?
Recently there was a tug that sank in Yangtze, nobody could do anything when it capsized
http://gcaptain.com/china-confirms-21-d ... gtze-river
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Re: Chinese Ship sinks with 450 people on board
Depends on where on the river it is. Don't forget, the Yangtze is partially damned up. Also, depends on currents. Having the equipment nearby is also a problem. China is a big country. Heavy lift barges the the Thor are few and far between. I have my doubts whether they even have a heavy lift crane barge with that capability and if they do, it's not something quickly deployed. What they would really need is something like the $100 Million Versabar 10000.
http://ns1.iliketowastemytime.com/versa ... ig-remover

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I didn't know you can't cut above the waterline on the hull for capsized ship. Why is that?sundaymorningstaple wrote:I heard that they can hear others still inside the capsized ferry. Hopefully they will be able to gain access just below the waterline to be able to pull them out. Cannot cut above the waterline as it will release the remaining air trapped in the hull.
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If the vessel is not resting on the sea floor, any opening will sink it.the lynx wrote:I didn't know you can't cut above the waterline on the hull for capsized ship. Why is that?sundaymorningstaple wrote:I heard that they can hear others still inside the capsized ferry. Hopefully they will be able to gain access just below the waterline to be able to pull them out. Cannot cut above the waterline as it will release the remaining air trapped in the hull.
A miracle story ..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... agedy.html
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Re: Chinese Ship sinks with 450 people on board
Not true, squirrel. Maybe you are confusing what I mean by water line. Not the line between the upper sides of the vessel and the bottom paint. The waterline on any vessel that is afloat is the point where the air/water interface meets. If the vessel has capsized then the waterline will be any portion of the vessel beneath the surface of the water, but you have to be careful by soundings on the sides to find out how high the water is "inside" the vessel so as to cut an entrance below that level. If cutting above that level then any air in that compartment will escape. by going just below that level, the air remains and the people can be extricated with scuba tanks with spider rigs on them. The only time you can cut a hole directly in the hull bottom is if that particular chamber is sealed off from the rest of the ship, or the water level in the other compartments are above the door way hatches, which doesn't leave too much space unless the internal deck grating has been displaced. If the vessel has sank in an upright position, there is a possibility of air pockets in any chamber that doesn't have any vents to adjoining chambers above the door hatchways.
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I took a ferry from HK to Guangzhou via the Pearl River, an overnight and not particularly pleasant journey. It wouldn't surprise me if there were that many people onboard.Wd40 wrote:I didn't know rivers were big enough to carry a ship of 400 people. I don't think India has such huge rivers.
During my stay I could view over the docks/river from my hotel room, and there were some significantly larger passenger vessels moored up than the one I took. Even at that point c60 miles up-river (refer: 'White Swan Hotel, on Google Maps), the river is about 600M across.
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A very quick Google (if you didn't take primary school geography) would show that it is the third largest river in the world. The two larger ones aren't in India, so no. It doesn't.Wd40 wrote:I didn't know rivers were big enough to carry a ship of 400 people. I don't think India has such huge rivers.

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SMS, just read today they did shut down the water flow through the Three Gorges dam and have lowered the river level enough to begin to expose the hull.
This is China though, so expect accurate and factual reporting about the incident to be minimal.
This is China though, so expect accurate and factual reporting about the incident to be minimal.
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Re: Chinese Ship sinks with 450 people on board
zzm9980 wrote:SMS, just read today they did shut down the water flow through the Three Gorges dam and have lowered the river level enough to begin to expose the hull.
This is China though, so expect accurate and factual reporting about the incident to be minimal.

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