83 containers lost off Newcastle

[Dave_S]

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?s...d=182454457590

[JPA Cate]

For those of us who do not do FB, here's a different link:
https://www.theherald.com.au/story/5...-hunter-coast/

Sail in the daytime, and keep your eyes peeled if you're in the area. 15 mi, approx off the Hunter coast, and northbound, with these prevailing winds.

Ann

[JPA Cate]

Here's another link: Boaters warned of debris after 83 shipping containers fall from cargo ship off NSW coast - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

It states that AMSA is working with NSW Roads and Maritime and the company, to salvage the containers.

Ann

[charliehows]

If yer taking a late run up to the Whitsundays, this'll make it a bit of an arcade game getting past Newcastle...should be fun

[JPA Cate]

As of today, there are reports of some of the containers, washed ashore in Stockton Bight.

Ann

[Alan Mighty]

And diapers, surgical masks, and plastic bottles spilling from at least one container.

https://www.theguardian.com/australi...ound-freighter

[clownfishsydney]

The sea was not really that bad, 8 metre swells but we have had much worse over the past four years. Must have been some fault with one or more piles of containers. The ship now is south-east of Port Kembla, has been hanging around Sydney for the past 48 hours or so.

[JPA Cate]

Yes, we heard she was trying to get an urgency berth in Botany Bay to seccure the remaining containers. Hope she's got in by now.

Ann