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Sharksbaja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sylens
was destined to a large nissan manufacturing plant in aguascalientes. the plant has had to freeze operations because of the lack of materials...
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Well gee what a conundrum! It's not like you couldn't off-load those containers as they are oriented to be removed in order anyway.
Why, then could they not truck then away to Calexico?
What a no-brainer.
Hey, at least they get to watch the Super Bowl.
That is if Mexicans care.
Do they?
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Gypsy Jan
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More cargo-carrying helos this week
Everyday this week, containers flying north.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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sylens
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some mexicans enjoy super bowl
like our across the street neighbors who invited us to a "carne asada" (barbecue to us gringos) to watch the tv and the crane offloading containers
from apl panama from their rooftop terrace. one was an avid steelers fan who kept in touch with 14 buddies at another location watching the game. 12
were seahawk fans and the other two were steeler fans.
as for offloading, remember there was only the one helicopter doing that (and it was limited in the weight it could carry) until this weekend when
they constructed the jetty and brought in the giant crane. now the chopper is handling cargo at the bow and the crane is handling containers at the
stern. they are moving very quickly now. i'll try and get a photo tomorrow to post as the ship becomes de-cargoized.
we are now very hopeful it will leave friday or saturday with the high tide and 80 thousand horsepower.
lili
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Bruce R Leech
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can any one post new pictures that show the jetty and crane?
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sylens
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jetty and crane photos
i'll try and post tomorrow after taking a couple...
lili
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sylens
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trying to post photo of blue container
being lowered by huge crane on jetty onto waiting rig. but i have not posted photo before and clearly do not know how. i resized it to under 50kb,
clicked browse and double clicked on jpg file. more help please??
lili
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bajabound2005
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Sylens - don't use the quick reply at the bottom of the page -- at the top of the page click on POST REPLY -- at the bottom of the next page you'll
see where you can attach the photo.
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David K
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Sylens, if you want.. email the photo(s) to me and I will post it here for you until you get the hang of it... info AT vivabaja.com 
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Bruce R Leech
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I really need an update and hopefully some pictures.
Bruce R Leech
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David K
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Sylens Photo
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Sylens Photo
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David K
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David K
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Sylyns Photo
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http://photos.signonsandiego.com/gallery1.5/beachedship/CN_c...
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Bruce R Leech
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thanks for the update photos David K
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Wow - it doesn't look good!
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Crane removes containers to lighten grounded vessel
Jetty first is built to stranded ship
By Sandra Dibble
February 9, 2006
The container vessel APL Panama, stranded since Christmas Day off an Ensenada beach, now has its own jetty.
Salvors commissioned the 500-foot rock-and-sand ramp and hired a giant crane to carry containers ashore. The operation is the latest in a series of
attempts to lighten the ship's load and get it floating again.
Weighed down by cargo and pinned in by sand, the 880-foot APL Panama has refused to leave the broad sandy beach where it ran aground more than seven
weeks ago.
The ship was on a trans-Pacific route, and its cargo included electronic components for Baja California manufacturing plants as well as parts for car
factories in central Mexico. The delay in delivery prompted Nissan, the Japanese car manufacturer, to stop producing vehicles for three days last week
at its Aguascalientes facility.
Led by Florida-based Titan Maritime LLC, salvage efforts since the grounding reportedly have succeeded in moving the bow 35 degrees, about a third of
the distance necessary to pull it away from shore. A major effort late last month involved six tugboats and a barge equipped with hydraulic pullers,
with a combined capacity of more than 80,000 horsepower.
Yesterday, as onlookers gazed from a distance, containers were hooked to the crane and lifted off the ship. The crane swung each container over to a
waiting truck, where a worker maneuvered it into place.
The Baja California construction company Amaya Curiel y Cia S.A. de C.V. built the jetty. Company President Roberto Curiel said yesterday the 300-ton
crawler crane, with a 250-foot boom, has been working around the clock since Sunday, and moving up to 60 containers per day. About 1,500 containers
were on board yesterday, said Mike Hanson, spokesman for the ship's owner.
Leaders of the salvage effort had hoped they wouldn't have to resort to the costly land-based operation. They initially relied on a Sikorsky Sky Crane
helicopter to remove some of the lighter containers from the ship. But many of the boxes weigh more than the helicopter's 20,000-pound carrying
capacity.
Titan Maritime executives have told local officials that they are also hoping to bring in a more powerful helicopter, a Russian-made Mil-25 to lift
the heavy containers. But the helicopter had yet to make an appearance yesterday.
Capt. Jos? Luis R?os Hern?ndez, Ensenada's harbor master, said renewed pulling efforts are expected during the next few days. Salvage workers must not
only remove cargo, but also find ways to remove the sand that is trapping the vessel.
Meanwhile, the delay has had its consequences in central Mexico. Nissan was missing parts that were in about 100 containers, and as a result, did not
produce vehicles on Jan. 30, 31 and Feb. 1 at its 5,000-employee facility in Aguascalientes, said Fred Standish, director of corporate communications
for Nissan North America Inc. Alternative supplies were found, and production resumed last Thursday, Standish said. ?It's been running full steam ever
since.?
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A large crawler crane working on a newly constructed rock-and-sand jetty lifts a container off the APL Panama. Photo by CHARLIE NEUMAN
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Dianamo
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Hey, is that thing big enough to land a jet from SFO on? Save me some
time on I5.
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bajabound2005
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How about a progress report from you locals? We won't be back to that area til 6/1...and well maybe the ship will still be stuck there; but we'd love
to know what the current status is!
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Not Local , Loco?, maybe
We are going by there friday morning and again on tuesday I'll take lots of pics and try to get the latest scoop.
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