Accident during sea transport of Mazda vehicles.

[Syuryuken]

parang hindi maganda design ng barko.

[karlbo]

tama benta na 90% OFF yan dito sa pinas... dumugin ng tsikoteers yan.. hehehe

[Camgen6]

Saw that on tv news, may mga pinoy crew pa yata na nasagip.

[nugundam93]

omg what a waste

[carlocaraddict]

yeh i remember that ship carrying volvos.

Sayang naman yan.

[Autobeat]

Yan yung maraming Pinoy na Crew diba.

may mga pinoy crew pa yata na nasagip.

Yup, reports said most of the crew was from the Philippines and Myanmar, with a few from Singapore.

[oldblue]

CX-7 for P200k !!!

[chieffy]

body lang yan, pwede pa parts nyan... :D

2.3L engine yumyum! :drool:

[finchy18]

Dalin sana yan sa cebu at gawin SURPLUS

[kimpOy]

wala yan sa MV Tricolor
mostly from premium German and Swedish manufacturers including BMW and Volvo, worth £30m (representing a retail value of £60m), was removed from the wreck and destroyed.

[Autobeat]

Reminds me another ship that sank with high end volvos in it.

wala yan sa MV Tricolor
mostly from premium German and Swedish manufacturers including BMW and Volvo, worth £30m (representing a retail value of £60m), was removed from the wreck and destroyed.

Sayang, sinira na lang? Then again, that ship did sink, and ruined the cars beyond salvage. With this one, it seems Mazda, or the insurance company, still has a better salvage possibility, as long as the ship does not sink.

[theveed]

Scrap nila yan coz a lot of parts can be reused or recycled kesa naman pumasok sa black market

[johnart]

update ko lang from the vancouver sun newspaper



http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/n...6b&k=35733&p=1

Vancouver a possible port for listing freighter

Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun
Published: Thursday, August 03, 2006
Vancouver is among the ports being considered as a towing destination for a disabled cargo ship carrying nearly 5,000 new vehicles should salvage crews successfully right the ship at sea.

The salvage operation -- that has already claimed one life -- continues today in the North Pacific off the Aleutian Islands near Alaska as a crew attempts to right the New Westminster-bound Cougar Ace.

A team of professionals, equipped with harnesses and ropes, Wednesday hoisted and installed pumps on the listing vessel.

The condition of the 200-metre Singapore-flagged ship has been compared to a very tall building tilted at a 60-degree angle.

Coast guard officials say pumping could begin within days, depending on the weather. The vessel is being towed slowly and remains stabilized 150 kilometres south of Herbert Island in the Aleutians.

The salvage crew hopes to right the ship and then tow it to a port where it will be repaired and its 4,813 cars, valued at more than $91 million, unloaded.

The salvage team determined Sunday that the cargo is still in place. The cars are chained and stacked 14 storeys high in the ship. The engine room is dry and in good condition, and the ship's fuel tanks do not appear to be leaking.

On Wednesday, U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman Sara Francis said the plan is to pump water from the No. 9 cargo deck, which is at the waterline, to the No. 5 starboard ballast tank.

The objective is to stabilize the ship by altering the distribution of its ballast.

But the job is not an easy one because the ship is nearly floating on its side.

"The salvage crew is having to traverse the ship as if they were climbing a mountain. They are wearing ropes and harnesses so that if they slip, they don't fall a long way," said Francis.

"Imagine if your office was tilted 60 degrees to the left and you had to traverse back and forth from your desk to the copy machine."

The precariousness of the scene was made tragically clear Sunday when a four-member salvage team was getting ready to leave the Cougar Ace.

Marty Johnson, a 40-year-old naval architect from Seattle, slipped and fell to his death after he unclipped his harness as he prepared to leave the ship.

The Cougar Ace and its cargo rolled last Sunday night after crew members adjusted the ballast water used to stabilize the huge vessel. The boat flipped on its side within 10 minutes.

The crew was attempting to remove ballast water, a practice required under international maritime rules to prevent marine organisms picked up with the water at one port from being dumped with the ballast in another port, said Greg Beuerman, spokesman for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, the ship's owner.

Alien organisms can cause significant damage in their new habitat, so the water is released on the high seas, he added.

Beuerman said too much water was probably discharged when the crew was adjusting the ballast.

The crew was rescued during a spectacular operation involving three helicopters operated by the Alaska Air National Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Beuerman said salvage officials are uncertain about the state of the cars, which are mostly Mazda models. "There are 14 different decks and we've been able to observe conditions on two of those decks and we are well pleased with what we've seen.
"The cars remain stable and not damaged by water as far as we can tell."

Beuerman said he did not know the value of the car shipment.

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THE JOURNEY

The Cougar Ace cargo ship, carrying just shy of 5,000 new cars, left Japan on Friday, July 21, bound for the Fraser Wharves in New Westminster.

- Sunday, July 23: The ship began to list and rolled on to its side.

- Monday, July 31: Marty Johnson, a naval architect from Seattle, slipped and fell to his death, while participating in the salvage operation.

- Later this week: Salvage crews expect to begin using a series of pumps to right the ship.

© The Vancouver Sun 2006

[johnart]

Ang galing naka chains pala yung mga sasakyan. Kaya there is a very big posibility no cars were damaged. Pero ang grabe 14 stories high ang pag stack