Large Cargo Vessel Aground off Skye

[Naughty Cal]

BBC News - Large cargo vessel runs aground off Isle of Skye
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ymdz47mg4o

[ditchcrawler]

So we have a ship aground in the Humber, two ships collide and another aground off Skye, I wonder if there is something wrong with the satellite navigation system 

[pearley]

1 minute ago, ditchcrawler said:

So we have a ship aground in the Humber, two ships collide and another aground off Skye, I wonder if there is something wrong with the satellite navigation system 

Trump messing with the GPS?

[nicknorman]

2 hours ago, pearley said:

Trump messing with the GPS?

More likely to be Putin!

But for the ship colliding with the anchored ship in broad daylight reasonable viz, surely the basic Mk 1 eyeball was to blame. And it was not exactly a small ship.

[Naughty Cal]

1 hour ago, nicknorman said:

More likely to be Putin!

But for the ship colliding with the anchored ship in broad daylight reasonable viz, surely the basic Mk 1 eyeball was to blame. And it was not exactly a small ship.

Was the visibility good.

 

It was pretty foggy here in the Midlands this morning. 

[nicknorman]

2 hours ago, Naughty Cal said:

Was the visibility good.

 

It was pretty foggy here in the Midlands this morning. 

Radiation fog and advection fog have different causes.

[LadyG]

6 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

So we have a ship aground in the Humber, two ships collide and another aground off Skye, I wonder if there is something wrong with the satellite navigation system 

The navigator is required to keep a log. Not just GPS. Anyway the screen shot of all the vessels near the fire is working now. There should be independant systems , redundancy.

Edited March 10 by LadyG

[peterboat]

Apparently just went straight in at 15 knots, johnV an ex big ship officer thinks it was on autopilot, not sure about visibility but John said it was murky in Beverley so maybe same just a few miles down the river. 

Clearly nobody was watching for things on the bridge otherwise it wouldn't have happened after all radar would have shown a oil tanker in the way. It was on a frequently done trip so it would have been plotted into autopilot, its going to be human error I think? Unfortunately it looks like one is missing off the container ship, fortunately its not sunk as its cargo is highly flammable when in contact with water 

[nicknorman]

13 hours ago, Naughty Cal said:

Was the visibility good.

 

It was pretty foggy here in the Midlands this morning. 

Yes in fact they are now saying it was a bit foggy in the morning.