At the moment I am sat just south of where a couple of containers or at least contents have been washing up along the NSW coast.
As others have said just what is AMSA actually doing to locate these 40ft long boxes of doom. If you hit one your yacht is probably screwed in a major fashion.
Having just recently purchased one to store the house contents in while I nick off for an extended period on the old briney I did not find any plugs which dissolve in water and on every container that I inspected before I purchased my lump of steel all of the vents in the top corners of the containers were taped over. Having used a grinder to cut various holes in them for ventilation vents etc I can attest to the far more sturdy than GRP construction after wearing out a few cutting wheels on the grinder.
If the container is a reefer full of meat or vegtables the gases from the rotting contents are going to keep it positively bouyant for a while as well.
If we hit one do we sue AMSA along with Port Botany and the shipping line? Will the Liberian registered ship dissappear mid ocean to rock up at some other port as a Panamanian registered vessel with a new name shipping company wound up and gone.
I had a look at the amsa web page... f-ck me it went strait to facebook and it's inane comments although this post did at least bring home part of the story
www.facebook.com/groups/733202343469780/permalink/1539915972798409/?hc_location=ufiSo we can expect minimal help from those proportedly in charge of fixing this sort of mess and should you find one floating around if you have a battery operated drill and grinder on board please do your bit to help.
