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soulpatch
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Wow...... looks pretty bad...... nice sandbar building up, though. Anyone remember La Janelle at Silverstrand in Oxnard heading into Port Hueneme?
Caught years worth of good waves off of her cut up remains.
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The photos show the tugs pulling at 45 degrees to almost 90 degrees. Just from my experience in handling canoes stuck in the mud, it seems like they
would be better off pulling in the direction the boat is facing rather than trying to turn it while it is stuck in the sand. It seems like there
would be less resistance.
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BajaNews
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Grounded ship in Ensenada barely budging
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20060131-9...
Unloading half its cargo considered as next step
By Sandra Dibble
January 31, 2006
ENSENADA ? The beach south of the city's port is refusing to release its grip on the container ship APL Panama, and salvage teams are now looking at
the next step: unloading half its cargo with one of the world's largest helicopters.
?By taking off half the weight . . . they could refloat it,? said Capt. Jos? Luis R?os Hern?ndez, Ensenada's harbor master.
Stuck since Dec. 25, the 880-foot APL Panama has budged somewhat, despite two considerable endeavors this month to pull its bow away from shore. The
most recent effort, which began Friday and continued yesterday morning, has involved six tugboats and hydraulic pulling machines, with a combined
capacity of more than 80,000 horsepower.
The bow has moved only 35 degrees since the pulling started earlier this month, the salvage master says. That is just over one-third of the total
distance needed to pull the vessel to open water. Salvage workers believe a major problem has been the 30,000 tons of cargo.
Alongside the APL Panama, the morning scene in recent days had its own routine. A sleepy-eyed crew arrived just after daybreak to board the ship. Men
in white jumpsuits scoured the beach for signs of oil. Bulldozers rumbled down the sand, while Mexican sailors stood guard. Off shore, smoke rose from
the tugs' exhaust as they pulled on the APL Panama at high tide.
The efforts are being led by Florida-based Titan Maritime LLC, a worldwide maritime salvage company. It wants to fly in a Russian-made MIL Mi-26
helicopter, capable of lifting close to 20 tons, said R?os, the harbor master. Titan has located one in Peru that could be prepared in 48 hours.
The weight is not the only impediment to moving the ship. Banks of sand accumulating underwater are trapping it, and the salvors are trying to find a
way to loosen the sand. Last weekend, Titan had hoped to have a giant underwater hose in place to displace some of the sand, but it broke in several
places as it was being carried out in the surf.
The timing of the next phase was uncertain yesterday. R?os said Titan representatives are expected to discuss their plans today in Ensenada with
representatives from city, state and federal agencies.
Local officials have been growing increasingly worried about fuel spills. As of yesterday morning, three spills have been reported since the middle of
the month, totaling nearly 265 gallons.
Although most of the fuel has been removed from the ship, a small amount remains, and officials say cracks have led to leaks at low tide from a
fuel-contaminated ballast tank.
JC Environmental Co. of National City has been responsible for cleaning the spills, and it maintains a boom alongside the vessel's starboard side.
?So far, we have not identified flora and fauna that have been affected,? said Ricardo Castellanos Percevault, the top official in Baja California for
Mexico's environmental watchdog agency, known as PROFEPA. ?But the fact that there is fuel on the beach makes us uncomfortable, and what makes us even
more uncomfortable is the fact that we have this cargo ship on the beach.?
PROFEPA has gone to court to seize the vessel, Castellanos said, as a guarantee that the owners will fix any environmental damage before leaving
Mexico.
Meanwhile, those with containers must stand by. Among them is Sony Electronics Inc., which has raw materials and components for liquid crystal display
televisions produced in Baja California as well as finished goods for the Mexican retail market, spokesman Rick Clancy said.
?We don't know yet when cargo will be available for pickup,? read a customer advisory from the cargo company, APL, posted yesterday on its Web site.
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The stranded container ship APL Panama remained grounded Sunday at low tide on an Ensenada beach. The ship's bow has been moved a total of 35 degrees
since a pulling effort by salvage crews began several weeks ago.
Photo: JOHN GIBBINS
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01/27/2006: An armada of tugboats and a powerful pulling barge worked at daybreak to free the stranded container ship APL Panama from the beach south
of the entrance to Ensenada harbor.
Photo: JOHN GIBBINS
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Bruce R Leech
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bajaandy
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Classic Bruce.... just classic.
subvert the dominant paradigm
"If you travel with a man, you must either fall out with him or make him your good friend."
JBL Noel
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I cannot s stand to see that Barge Stuck any Longer there fore I am going to offer my advice Free for its Removal.
Very Simple; Float another Barge with a Craneup close at High Tide, Swing eac contanier off and onto an empty Barge on the other sie, when finished
with the off-loading ,attach the Tugs and pull it back into deep Water.
I have experience so if any one knows who to Contact give them my Email and Resume:
In 1968 A Japan Ailines Boeing 707 landed short of the Runway approaching San Francisco Airport; It landed in 7 feet of Water and several more feet of
Mud; It was my responsiblilty for moving this aircraft to dry Land.
Brought a Barge with a Crane, lifted it up , set it onto the barge, pulled the Barge to a Concrete runway, then the aircraft on to Dry land.
maybe I could make some money out of this. I will pay 10% commission if a deal is done!
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backninedan
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Skeet, you surprise me, your usual anwers to problems are to pray for it or nuke it.
[Edited on 2-2-2006 by backninedan]
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BajaDanD
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Barge
There you go then we would have two vessels stuck in the sand in Ensenada
OH!! wait a minute there is already two I forgot about the Catalina just down the beach
I wonder what a barge would be good for stuck on the beach maybe a parking lot for the Casino / container ship/ Walmart, stuck in the sand next to it.
Sort of like the LaBrea tar pits, it keeps luring in ships that then get stuck then more and more ships come when they hear the cries from the stuck
ships and the cycle continues for thousands of years.
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sylens
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they're bringing in rocks
and constructing a spit of land kind of like a wharf where i understand they are planning to bring a crane and remove the containers onto waiting
trucks...but who knows
we're also awaiting arrival of a larger helicopter from peru??? that can handle heavier containers than the ones the evergreen can handle.
they gave up trying to blow water at the sand that's keeping her stuck, because the huge (18" diameter) black hose they tried to put together kept
coming undone.
come on down, skeet, give it a try. you can stay at our place. we watch the show from our bedroom window.
lili
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Skeet/Loreto
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Thanks for th Offer!
Let me know if they do get it off. Does anyone know for sure what is inside the containers??
Skeet
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I heard it was filled with motorcycles for the liberal nekid dope smoking gay penguin festival. good luck getting that thing off the beach.
[Edited on 2-3-2006 by flyfishinPam]
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sylens
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some of the cargo
includes electronic equipment, and equipment for maquiladores, among which is some fairly corrosive stuff that reports have indicated is packaged
according to the highest international maritime standards. chief of bomberos (fire department) was saying risk of damage is very small, as long as it
stays on the ship. if it sinks, risk of environmental damage is substantial. and moving it poses somewhat greater risk than leaving it where it is,
assuming ship can be moved to a "safer" place to unload.
my bet is it'll be largely unloaded and afloat with lots of help from tugs and into dry dock by end of february.
my betting instincts are generally inaccurate, though. 
lili
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sylens
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next three phases
http://www.ensenada.net/noticias/?id=7635
plans f g and h or so.
1. continue with helicopters to unload empty and lighter containers;
2. use crane mounted on treads to remove the heavier containers (on the rock jetty they are building now);
3. try and power spray the sand away from where it's keeping the ship stuck and dredge a channel to giver her a path while the 80 K horses do their
job.
authorities are requesting people stay away to make the transportation of containers to the port relatively safe and uneventful. good luck.
lili
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When I was in my teens a freighter, lot smaller then this one, got washed on the beach in Holland during one of the North Sea's famous northern
storms. It sat actually high and dry on the sand. Bulldozers dug the sand away from around it. They also used a dragline to remove lots of sand and
finally had it dig a channel into the sea. After several tries with about 3 to 4 tugs in the ocean, they drug it of the beach within a week. But then
of course, us Dutch are wizzards with everything that has to do with the sea, heheheh
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backninedan
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Pam,
I didnt realize it was festival time already, Id better get my bike waxed.
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bajabound2005
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Here's our 2 bits after having a good look at this thing this week -- get 10,000 labrador retrievers. Harness them all with cables and tie the cables
to the boat. Throw out one tennis ball into the water....
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mcgyver
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Well everyone have their fun with ideals to remove this ship from the beach but Crowley Marine are experts and it will be removed by standard recovery
methods. IE: A suction dredge will dig a channel from it to the regular channel and they will pull it off the beach. Right now they are worried about
the cargo ( Cargo salvage and hull salvage are separate matters) see this link http://www.cargolaw.com/ , once it is off standard methods will move this vessel. If you were a salvage master and making the big bucks from a
Lloyd's standard salvage agreement ( No Cure -No Pay) ( The longer and more difficult the job the more the court will award the savager) you would not
be in a hurry either! This is a straight insurance job with little chance of collateral damage from a massive oil spill like a tanker would do. If
their were any chance of big time losses other than already happened you would not see all these big name company's and people rushing to get a little
piece of it.
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sylens
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some of the cargo
was destined to a large nissan manufacturing plant in aguascalientes. the plant has had to freeze operations because of the lack of materials...
lili
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