[Gossamer]

ALASKA -- In this photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard, the Cougar Ace maintains its position about 240 miles south of Adak in the North Pacific Ocean. As of noon Tuesday, the ship, hundreds of miles off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, is listing 60 degrees to port. The keel and the propeller are out of the water. It is stable, and does not appear to be sinking, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. (07/28/06 AP Photo/Official Coast Guard photo courtesy of Coast Guard cutter Rush)

[Dakar]

That ship must be drunk as hell.

[Landos Mustache]

Are we supposed to imagine it or are you going to give us a pic and link?

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Are we supposed to imagine it or are you going to give us a pic and link?

I posted the picture and the entirety of the news story I found. I did a quick Google search and found this for you.
Link

[Chuckit]

It's clearly just taking a nap.�

[Landos Mustache]

Ha ha it is full of Mazdas!

[Albert Pujols]

I saw this on the news a week ago. For some reason this story makes me kind of sad.. poor cars

[olePigeon]

What's up with Alaska and bigass ships sinking?

[Gossamer]

From the link I posted above:

According to Mazda, 60% of the cars aboard are Mazda3s, and 30% are CX-7 SUVs. The Associated Press reports that the Cougar Ace tipped after her ballast was adjusted in the open sea.

[faragbre967]

Originally Posted by olePigeon

What's up with Alaska and bigass ships sinking?

The ocean around Alaska is where the cold Arctic waters hit the warm Pacific waters. This makes for lots of really big waves and bad storms. Smaller boats would fare even worse out there.

[turtle777]

^^^ Should read "60% of the cars aboard were Mazda3s, and 30% were CX-7 SUVs"



-t

[Judge_Fire]

Bring in The Saw!!!!

[Rumor]

No need for the Saw, just tank an equally big ship, get in moving fast as hell and ram the tipped one. That would straighten out.

[d4nth3m4n]

i really really REALLY want to see pics of the car dogpile inside that thing.

too bad they're probably going to scrap the cars like they did with the Tricolor. there has to be one at least on mazdaspeed mx-5 on there.

[gururafiki]

Does a boat like that have car insurance?

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by gururafiki

Does a boat like that have car insurance?

Geico.

[gururafiki]

Originally Posted by Person Man

Geico.

I would have guessed Aflac. You know, since ducks float better than a gecko......oh never mind!

[mac1896]

Wait a few months, Mazda's going to have a "Reconditioned Car blowout sale".

The Gecko over that annoying F****** duck anytime.

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally Posted by mac1896

Wait a few months, Mazda's going to have a "Reconditioned Car blowout sale".

The Gecko over that annoying F****** duck anytime.

yeah, but Yogi berra > *

[Spliffdaddy]

4700 cars represents 1 week's worth of Mazda's US sales.

[IceEnclosure]

10% could be MazdaSpeeds or RX-8s!

hope these aren't on board:

[analogika]

Oh my God - it's an oversize pic!

Everybody run for cover before the mods strike!

[baw]

[Rumor]

The RX-8 blow monkey nuts.

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally Posted by Rumor

The RX-8 blow monkey nuts.

tell us what you really think.

[Yose]

It's pretty amazing that it can do that.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Rumor

The RX-8 blow monkey nuts.

Originally Posted by Yose

It's pretty amazing that it can do that.

-t

[Eriamjh]

"Alright, I need everybody to go to the other side of the ship, please."

[analogika]

It's those bloody Americans and their damned insistence on *driving* everywhere, I tell you.

[mojo2]

Cougar Ace's initial survey complete; life of naval architect lost in accident

July 31, 2006
Monday

A four-man salvage team was able to access and survey the Cougar Ace yesterday, determining that at least some cargo remains in place and that the vessel remains stable. However, while conducting the survey, one of the team members fell and died from injuries sustained in the fall.

The team attempted to board the vessel from the Makushin Bay but were unable to climb up the structure. They successfully accessed the vessel using the Coast Guard cutter Morgenthau's HH-65 Dolphin helicopter. The salvage team commenced a survey of the vessel's engine room and some of the cargo decks. After the survey was completed and the team was disembarking the Cougar Ace an unidentified member of the team, a naval architect, slipped and fell. He was knocked unconscious. The other team members conducted CPR on the scene. He was immediately medevaced to the Morgenthau. After conducting CPR for over an hour, he was pronounced dead by the Coast Guard flight surgeon. A safety assessment is underway.



The survey team from Titan salvage attempts to access the vessel from the Makushin Bay. Initially they were not able to gain entry; however, successful access was gained by airlifting the team with the Coast Guard cutter Morgenthau's embarked HH-65 Dolphin helicopter.
Unified Command Photo

The Cougar Ace left Japan on July 22, with 23 people on board. A Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter and crew from Air Station Kodiak, working with two Air National Guard Pavehawk helicopters with rescue crews from Kulis Air National Guard Base, sucessfully hoisted the twenty three crewmembers of the Cougar Ace to safety last Monday night, July 24th.

The Cougar Ace, a Singapore homeported vessel, carrying 4,813 vehicles was en-route to Vancouver B.C. when it began taking on water and listing at 90 degrees 230 miles south of the Aleutian Islands on Sunday, July 23rd.The Singapore flagged vessel, a 654 foot car carrier, is owned by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines. The amount of fuel on board has been confirmed as 142,184 gallons of Intermediate Fuel Oil (IFO) 380 and 34,182 gallons of marine diesel. Previously reported amounts were the amount of fuel taken on before departing Asia.

According to the Unified Command, the initial salvage survey was successful. The team looked at the number one and nine decks. The team determined that the cargo on the number one deck, the highest deck, remains in place. Cargo on the ninth deck has also remained in place. The engine room is intact and there is no sign of water. There are a total of fourteen car cargo decks on the Cougar Ace.

The Cougar Ace was at last report 140 nautical miles south of Amlia Island in the Aleutian Island chain. It has been adrift since approximately 1 a.m. Monday. The vessel is being pushed by the wind at about one knot. Since about 4 p.m. Wednesday the vessel was on a mostly northern route. Friday it took a east course. It is still on that course.

The 378-foot Coast Guard cutter Morgenthau is on scene monitoring the Cougar Ace for signs of pollution and tracking its movement. A non -recoverable sheen has been noted emanating from the bow section of the vessel in the vicinity of the bow propulsion system. The sheen extends approximately 25-75 yards.

Five other vessels are being used to respond to the Cougar Ace. The tug Sea Victory is expected to arrive on scene late today from Seattle. The Coast Guard cutter Sycamore, a 225-foot sea going buoy tender from Cordova, has arrived on scene.

The Unified Command is continuing to develop plans to right the vessel and safely tow it. No determination has been made as to where the vessel will be towed. Weather conditions on scene Monday are reported as seven knot winds from the southwest. Sea state is one foot seas and swells. Conditions are overcast with eight nautical miles of visibility.

http://www.sitnews.us/0706news/07310...ougar_ace.html

[gururafiki]

It went to a funny story to a sad one. To bad two people had to die.

[spiky_dog]

interesting that the cars are still in place. should they not be waterlogged they might end up on the market.

[mojo2]

Originally Posted by gururafiki

It went to a funny story to a sad one. To bad two people had to die.

If the guy in my cut n paste is #1, who is the second person who died?

[gururafiki]

Originally Posted by mojo2

If the guy in my cut n paste is #1, who is the second person who died?

Whoops, my bad. Only 1 guy died.

[amsalpemkcus]

This looks hopeless. My guess is that they will probably tow it to port and salvage the cargo.

[IceEnclosure]

They should start aan electric hybrid solar rotary powered racing series using the cars salvaged from the vessel. : \

[IceEnclosure]

Oh, and my old roommate was/is(?) a diver for Titan Marine, the company that did the salvage assessment. Crazy line of work.

[ghporter]

The salvage assessment crew said that the cars seemed to be all still secured on decks 1 and 9-implying that they feel the rest of the cars are probably still secured as well.

I wonder how Mazda will handle this-the cars are involved in a major accident, but may be completely untouched. Weird issue, eh?

Of course having the thing roll that far because of a bad decision about ballast is not nearly as funny as having the whole crew playing "Red Rover"...

[mojo2]

Originally Posted by gururafiki

Whoops, my bad. Only 1 guy died.

No prob. I thought I missed someone.