Tims Times

 

My 8 year old laptop finally gave up the ghost last night and died, I am on a borrowed computer now. Fortunately only a day to go and I can find a new one or see if the Toshiba can be salvaged. Talking about salvage some pics here from a French website of the MSC Napoli on the day of the rescue mentioned earlier.( http://www.ruttledge.se/?p=95)

The news is full of pics of the ship aground off the Devon coast, I wonder how soon before they decided to beach her was the final decision made, they probably didn’t have much time with the cracks spreading in the bad weather.

As usual the reports on the “hazardous cargo” are being blown out of all proportion with wild speculation in the news and about the thousands of tonnes of hazardous cago. The worst thing now is the oil slick, I haven’t heard any official cargo manifest and hazardous goods are classified from explosives to batteries and asphalt so who knows what they have on board. The news also used the phrase “stricken freighter” as they use for all types of ships, when in distress. Ships are rarely in the news except when they are sinking or spilling or burning, no wonder the general public has such a poor view of ships and seafarers. It will all be forgotten about when some Big Brother house guest bares her breasts or Posh Beckham gets another tatoo on her arse, now thats what I call news.

 

http://www.ouest-france.fr/dossiers/galerie_napoli.asp?path=napoli&page=1