In 2019, the vehicle ship Golden Ray arrived in St. Petersburg as it set out from the port of Brunswick in Georgia. It had capsized in Simons Sound. It may sound like a joke, but the reason behind it was a simple typo…
vehicle ships, carrying loads of enormous size and enormous weight They are the arteries of the maritime industry.
These arteries, you guessed it, It does not sink easily but The collapse story we will tell now may seem like a joke.
The crew thought everything was ready to set off.
But the ship typo error by entering incorrect data into the balance system It was done. This simple mistake resulted in the complete loss of both the ship and its cargo. More than $250 million resulted in rescue costs.
Golden Ray is 200 meters long and It was a giant vehicle carrier weighing 71 tons. It had a total of 15 decks, 13 of which were dedicated to carrying vehicles, and had a capacity of 7,742 vehicles.
However, an error made while manually entering the balance information caused the ship to become unstable.
According to the crew’s calculations the ship was safe to navigate but in reality, the ship’s stability was quite poor. So what was this mistake?
The Golden Ray routinely increased its speed as it continued on its way. During the return starboard, heeled 6 degrees but the crew thought everything was normal.
Vehicles inside the Golden Ray ship.
As the ship gains speed during the rotation process Each time he tended to the dock a little more. The captain realized there was a problem and ship’s center of gravity and metacentric height He understood the imbalance by questioning the distance between them.
The crew believed that the ship’s metacentric height (GM) was approximately 2.5 meters.
However, in reality, GM value is It had a value of between 0.8 and 1.8 meters. So what does this mean?
In other words, the ship was exposed to external forces during the rotation and had to balance itself. However It fell on its side because its self-righting capacity was less and entered an irreversible path.
A tiny clerical error caused the loss of the $62.5 million ship and It caused cargo losses of $142 million. Add to that the $250 million rescue cost…
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