Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)

The 62,000 tonne vessel was carrying 2,323 containers, 158 of which are classed as having potentially hazardous contents.

Of the 200 that have gone overboard, three contained battery acid and perfumes. Others housed a variety of goods including BMW motorbikes and car parts.
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If anyone does go bagging a free bike, make sure you get the right container. Wouldn't want to open on with the battery acid. :eek:
 
geuben said:
supposedly the navy are allowed to shoot floating the containers as target practice. but that could just be one of my dad's "what do you want? a good story or the truth?" stories.
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They are, but only out to sea in order to sink them. Otherwise they would be a hazard.

Workmate is a lifeboat volunteer. Apparently the coxswain has the authority to ask for things to get sunk.
 
Jofujofu said:
I hate this sort of environmental disaster. Images of helpless birds, covered in oil and stuff. Its horrific. :(

Paul
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Same, and what cheeses me off further is the fact they arent going to start pumping the oil away until monday morning, lazy or what :mad:

Infact, i dont know how boats such as that one was even allowed in the channel with the weather like last week forcast :confused:

Loot some of the stuff and sell on ebay TBH.
 
Scavenging Rights have been put into place and you will be arrested if you go down. You don’t want to open a container full of chemicals and make the rescue effort even worse.
 
Originally Posted by geuben
supposedly the navy are allowed to shoot floating the containers as target practice. but that could just be one of my dad's "what do you want? a good story or the truth?" stories.
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They are, but only out to sea in order to sink them. Otherwise they would be a hazard.

Workmate is a lifeboat volunteer. Apparently the coxswain has the authority to ask for things to get sunk.
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yeah i didnt expect them to be able to shoot them that close to the shore.
 
geuben said:
yeah i didnt expect them to be able to shoot them that close to the shore.
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I suspect if it's a danger to shipping it doesn't matter where it is within reason, although i would suspect the navy/coastguard would aim away from shore/into the water (thus negating the risk of the round hitting anything else - apart from a sub).
 
RoachycaL said:
Are those brown things those massive great things that go on the back of lorries? How the hell did they float?
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Yes they are. Guess its just down to how airtight each one is.

Bearing in mind there are maybe 25 containers visible, but they reckon more than 200 have fallen off.
 
Interesting photographs :)


I can only imagine how difficult it wil be to pick up half of those containers ..as Beach access looked fairly limited in some of them !
 
Those containers won't just contain commercial items... We used one to transport all our stuff from South America when we came here. Friends of the family were relocating to Australia and their was actually lost at sea after a storm. It must be terrible.
 
how does the law stand on robbing the containers,

is it salvage first come first serve or are they still property
 
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