One poor woman, from Italy I think, saw on TV all her house contents being taken from the container in which she was shipping it, when she was moving back to Italy.

It was South Africa I think.

very discressing to watch your stuff going awol.

There is a container full of Tigers underway to South Africa right now (mine included!, for the Worlds)
So stories of lost containers make me a little nervous at the moment. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

it should actually make you feel better...statistically speaking, it should be some time before another major mishap like this.

Oops!





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Actually, the probability of a container washing overboard at any given time is not influenced by a similar event happening recently....one event is not related to the other. Kinda like the lottery: the probability of winning it stays the same, even if you won it the week before! Sorry Tony! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Another "salvaged" wood is the Tasmanian Huon Pine. Its an exceedingly slow growing tree.. One tree was reported in a journal when settlers first ventured there 150 year ago and its still only 20 foot tall.. Looks like a standard sapling. However mature trees are large.. The wood seems not to rot and so fallen trees lying in fresh streams or ocean are salvaged and used. Apparently worms and bacteria find the oils in the wood hard to take so they rarely touch it.. These logs a are reported to be hundreds if not thousands of years old.. That is without the preserving effects of moor or bog..
There is a new gaffer here made of Huon pine and she is stunning.. Today huon pine is way too expensive and rare for boats.. Shame as its unique and absolutely stunning wood..

You'd think a container ship on fire could fight a fire with, I dunno, WATER!

but they do Glenn, getting at the right containers is the problem.

and especially difficult when the containers are fireworks or mis-marked oxidizing pool chemicals.

Being an ex-navy firefighter, I can tell you that fighting a shipboard fire is not nearly as easy as it sounds, yeah, there is plenty of water around, but there are many other issues to deal with. I'm willing to bet the crews of those ships receive minimal training regarding firefighting. Probably something along the lines of....when it catches fire, call for help and abandon ship.

I think there are international standards for training, which includes firefighting.

There are International Standards for securing cargo too, appear to have been overlooked here.

Darryn

One year on and its happened again !



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7837365.stm

Picture froim last year

So much for statistics

My gardening shed is in there somewhere.