![]() "I don't know why they didn't steer the ship in a different direction. "Normally my husband tells me that they have a different route that they take to go around the storm," said Rochelle Hamm, whose husband, Frank, is a crew member. Niko again ducked his eyes waiting for a new storm to hit. The crew had initially reported Thursday that waters flooding into the vessel had been contained, the Coast Guard said.įamilies were angry Friday that the vessel was not diverted from a course taking it near Joaquin. There must have been at least eighteen sailors on that one freighter alone, how the bugger am. The ship, built in 1975, was en route from Jacksonville, Fla., to its home port of San Juan, Puerto Rico, where it was to arrive late Friday. ![]() Rios said the hope Saturday was "to get closer to the position that they were trying to search yesterday, seeing as how the storm has shifted a little bit." and then we would dip down below the clouds and try to make call-outs to see if we could hail them on radios. So yesterday what we were doing was taking our C-130s, getting them as close as they could, essentially pushing the operational limit. ![]() "The last known location for these guys, think about it, was pretty much the eye of the hurricane. "(Friday) they were trying to get there," Coast Guard Petty Officer Jon-Paul Rios said Saturday. Forty lost containers were said to contain dangerous cargo. This happened when the 14,000-TEU ship ran into a storm on the Pacific Ocean. With the massive storm finally shifting slowly northeast and away from the Bahamas, a search team in a C-130 aircraft were hoping to fly closer to the emergency signal that reported the ship's last location. The Japanese container ship ONE Apus has lost more than 1800 containers on Monday evening, 30 November. ![]() Such a cargo load can aggravate any listing of the ship. On Friday, the Coast Guard said the area where the ship was located was near the eye of the Category 4 storm where winds were up to 140 mph at the time with waves 20 to 30 feet high. The ship was loaded with 391 containers on its deck and carried 293 cars, trucks and trailers below. ![]()
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