Views and Commentary about Life from a Harborside Perspective
Friday, November 23, 2007
Container Ship Casualties
The container ship Ital Florida was hit by several rouge waves during the July 16 - 19, 2007 Monsoon in the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, with 3 of her containers lost overboard and many of her stacks collapsed.
You can find more photos of Container Ship Casualties at Container Shipping
I get the question about once a week so here is the answer.
The photo at the top is mine and is one of my favorites. It first ran in the Charlotte Observer nearly 25 years ago. In fact I'm surprised that I could find it.
It was taken with a Cannon F-1 (I still have the camera) in the last fading light of a cold winter day on Ocracoke Island.
I nearly missed the last ferry back to Hatteras Island because I was waiting for the surface to become glass like calm, the way I'd seen it a few days before.
But as it turned out the tiny ripples give the photo depth and life. If you look at the photo closely you can see both the current in the water and the ocean breeze pushing the grass in the foreground.
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