Crap runs aground… huh, Krat that is
I am sure you have all seen the dramatic pictures of the Malta registered bulker, Krateros, whic ran aground just inside Vancouver’s harbour, near the famed Lions Gate Bridge. The image from Vancouver Sun’s Mark van Manen
shows that quite an unsual sight was experienced by the many onlookers from Stanley Park’s seawall.
The paper reported that no pollution escaped but that the ship was aground for several hours before 5 tugs and the high tide could nudge her off the rocks. The ship is now sitting at anchor in English bay just outside the harbour.
The Krateros is a 1992 Japanese built ship under class by DNV. It is managed by Nikator Navigation of Piraeus Greece, it has a dead weight of 43,595 tons. According to Equasis and partners, the ships was inspected in Vancouver, under the Paris MOU and 6 new and outstanding deficiencies were reported on the 19 of september, almost 6 days before the grounding, although no detention was registered.
Read the Vancouver Sun story here. CKNW, the local radio news’s report is below…
A friend was telling me about this last night. Apparently the S/G blew somewhere.
It always amazes me that equipment on a ship always fails at the most inopportune time.
Does the lube oil pump switch to pre-lube in the middle of the ocean? Nope, it does that in the channel before a turn, so that when the engine shuts down, the ship ends up on the beach. Or the breaker fails just as the ship is backing off the dock. Murphy’s Law doesn’t even apply here!