Essay About Ship Sinking

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We all know that ship sinking incident is one of the most frightening and devastating event that may happen unexpectedly. In this events, some crewmembers would have to sacrifice their lives due to some things. Unexpected disaster occur us when we don’t try to understand or neglect important details while on duty. Incidents that will make you lose all of your money or investments, and your sacrifice on work will be have no value in just a blink. It will not only affect you but also your family, other seafarers with you on board and your company.

There are some reasons why ship might be put in danger such as the free surface effect which can cause a watercraft unstable and capsize, the shifting of cargo that can affect the ship due to heavy listing, that can

The cell position as well as the actual weight of this cargo was only partly know to the accident investigators because they lacked detailed cargo information and records. The vessel arrived with a 7 metre even keel draught. Cargo operations started at 7.00 hours and 25 containers previously loaded in Port of Spain were discharged, six from the cargo holds and 19 from the upper deck. A total of 79 containers were to be loaded at Vieux Fort.

The cargo loading process continues and no incident happened until the towards the end of the loading process. To help speed up the loading operation, the ships cranes was used until one such container movement the vessel listed extremely to starboard and operations were temporarily stopped and the vessel eventually settles upright. The vessel was not in the right position. There was a heat up argument between Master and Chief Mate regarding the loading pattern and there was a refusal to load some too heavy containers. Continues loading using the vessels crane was stopped at about 16.00