Newcastle - Tanker Aground On Nobbys Beach

[Brycey]

amazing

Edited June 8, 2007 by Brycey

[d00dz]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/ship-a...1089282623.html

[dr1ft3r]

holy shit! thats crazy!

[vt5spd]

wow dude great shots!! I did realise it was that damn close!!

[Blitz]

Thats not good.

Pending environmental disaster right there.

[vidospace]

Remember, its not carrying oil or anything. Its just fuel. In that weather, it could dump its fuel and most of it would disperse in the sea.

[silver gts-t]

great photo's

all that sea water cant be good for car paint

[AllBlanct]

Excellent shots,believe you could have a couple of more ships turning up on the beach,just been told this ship was just built last year,if they cant get her towed off in one piece theres a hell of an insurance payout

[Abo Bob]

700 tons of fuel mate. That's not a small spill.

[Blitz]

Remember, its not carrying oil or anything. Its just fuel. In that weather, it could dump its fuel and most of it would disperse in the sea.

'Just fuel' - Are you for real?

Guess you missed the part in the news about how fuel traces have already been found on the beach

[Brycey]

cheers guys

truly amazing to see, it looked like king tide when i first got there (about 15 minutes it hit ground) , so its well and truly on the beach!

i was watching the news not long ago and they were saying how all salvage plans have been put on hold for the moment.. so if your in the area, defiantly worth a look!

for those who don’t know, in 1975 (i think) the sigma (similar tanker ship) ran aground on another newcastle beach and snapped in half, they have fears that this might do the same :| ill get some more pictures up over the weekend when the wind and rain has stopped

Edit: also, the storm is clearing up, so the other ships that were in danger of running aground should be right.. hopefully

'Just fuel' - Are you for real?

Guess you missed the part in the news about how fuel traces have already been found on the beach

wow :| i didnt hear that part, not sounding good

Edited June 8, 2007 by Brycey

[Brycey]

Just a few more pictures and stuff

within the first half a hour they wanted to send a tug out to try and pull the ship free (just one tug… in those conditions..hmm) but once it got close to the break wall it turned around.. im surprised they even considered it, the waves were just insane, the tug would have ended up flipped or right next to this rig on the beach

the 2 Westpack Rescue choppers where there, the white/blue NBN chopper was first on the scene (both on the ground and in the air) then the silver/red ABC chopper came in – and kept flying in NBN’s sight, then much later the red 7 chopper came in.. horrible flying conditions

also there was about 5 jet ski’s put in the water, but they were more interested in getting air :-P

[gun32gtr]

bloody full on.was watching bit on the news b4 she flipped.crazy stuff

[gun32gtr]

by the way unreal shots mate

[SiR_RB]

how does a ship of that size end up on the beach? was it anchored off newcastle waiting to enter the harbour? or was it under way. you wouldnt think a ship of that size would even move....but i guess what they say is true "big ships,big seas"

[shaolin]

It's a big boat... a couple of tugs should have been able to give it a shot tho.

[ULOOOK]

Great shots Brycey!

There are 5 more ships in trouble around Newcastle. Not good at all.

This rain is amazing we went for a drive and ended up towing floating cars off the road. I think we did about 4 cars in the end. That were all floating with poeple stuck inside. Good deed done for the day!

[monkeykplunk]

how does a ship of that size end up on the beach? was it anchored off newcastle waiting to enter the harbour? or was it under way. you wouldnt think a ship of that size would even move....but i guess what they say is true "big ships,big seas"

Yeah, they're all there because they're waiting to load up on coal in the harbour.

The problem is, when they're empty they're extremely high in the water and in cross winds like this the ships just act like giant sails when the y get hit on the broadside.

A similar ship managed to avoid a disaster just two beaches down when the weather calmed a bit, but the captain said he was at full throttle and was pretty much sitting in the one spot because of the head wind!

[michadoo]

Yeah, they're all there because they're waiting to load up on coal in the harbour.

The problem is, when they're empty they're extremely high in the water and in cross winds like this the ships just act like giant sails when the y get hit on the broadside.

A similar ship managed to avoid a disaster just two beaches down when the weather calmed a bit, but the captain said he was at full throttle and was pretty much sitting in the one spot because of the head wind!

some crazy sh1t....

I was reading somewhere that even though they were anchored, the swells and winds were that forcefull that it couldnt hold the anchorage.... apparently a few of the ships ignored some of the weather warnings and didnt go out to sea as far as recommended as they didnt think the seas would get that bad... good luck to them.. I hope no one gets injured.

A bridge on the Old Pacific Highway on the Central Coast @ Somersby collapsed, a car had fallen 10 metres or something into the water below and all occupants of the car are missing - suspected dead... it was a family with 2 children. My brother is a volunteer with fire brigade and has been assisting all night and have been unsuccessful in finding them. the car was washed up but no people.

I was catching train home from city, and there was a landslide/rockfall at wondabyne causing all trains to stop. I was on the train behind but apparently some rocks hit the train and caused it to derail slightly... as far as i know no one is hurt yet....

hope all gets better and everyone keeps safe!!!

[Patto-]

some crazy sh1t....

I was reading somewhere that even though they were anchored, the swells and winds were that forcefull that it couldnt hold the anchorage.... apparently a few of the ships ignored some of the weather warnings and didnt go out to sea as far as recommended as they didnt think the seas would get that bad... good luck to them.. I hope no one gets injured.

A bridge on the Old Pacific Highway on the Central Coast @ Somersby collapsed, a car had fallen 10 metres or something into the water below and all occupants of the car are missing - suspected dead... it was a family with 2 children. My brother is a volunteer with fire brigade and has been assisting all night and have been unsuccessful in finding them. the car was washed up but no people.

I was catching train home from city, and there was a landslide/rockfall at wondabyne causing all trains to stop. I was on the train behind but apparently some rocks hit the train and caused it to derail slightly... as far as i know no one is hurt yet....

hope all gets better and everyone keeps safe!!!

Heres the news story on the old pac:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/tough-...1089315886.html

Absolutely crazy

I heard about the train accident at wondabyne. Aparrently there was a landslide that pushed rocks onto the tracks which the train hit and the first carriage derailed slightly as you said. They moved everyone to the last four carriages and then disconnected those carriages from the front. The rear carriges went to hornsby where apparently there were buses waiting. No more trains could get through obviously.